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Soil

 
Stephanie Green Review by Stephanie Green 2 Published: 3 Aug 2025 Assembly @ Dance Base Show Dates: 1 Aug 2025-17 Aug 2025

Aviaja’s Soil is about not belonging – choreographed and performed by Sarah Aviaja Hammeken, who is half Danish and half Greenlandic. Growing up in Denmark without her Greenlandic language (Kalaallisut), she does not feel at home in either country, and this impacts on her sense of identity.

There is a potentially powerful performance piece waiting to be released

The show opens with her lying face down in a heap of black soil. Nothing happens for ten minutes, testing the audience’s tolerance. However, this image stays with one long after the show is over, and there is a potentially powerful performance piece waiting to be released. Sadly, it remains more of a lecture.

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Soil is a powerful dance performance about identity, language and belonging. Through movement and the rhythms of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic language), it explores how we connect to culture: beyond words, across borders and through the body. A poetic and physical journey of self-discovery, Soil delves into language and the search for self and recognition. It invites audiences to experience the beauty and challenges of communication in new ways. A dance of belonging and becoming. Part of #DANISH