Teaching acting in Greenland

The Greenlandic National Theatre runs a drama school, and María was invited to teach Grotowski technique and improvisation there. The year before, students from the school had attended a course with her in Iceland.

She also used the opportunity to research a new work about women in the Arctic.

“I flew to Nuuk in the autumn twilight and stepped out into this overwhelming vastness, at once beautiful and frightening. That evening the strongest northern lights I have ever seen danced above my head. The theatre is small, and so is the school. But what is not small is the strength and depth of the artists and their connection to their 5,000-year-old culture and history in this land of snow. Everything is alive – stones, sea, sky – and everything is connected.”