Roots – closing performance of Nordic Ljus

Roots, the closing performance of Nordic Ljus, was performed at sunset in Joensuu, Finland, this evening. A hundred young Nordic performers took the stage under the direction of María Ellingsen, Raisa Foster, Karoliina Turkka, Arna Valsdóttir and Tero Sarkkinen, with lighting by Kari Kola. The young artists have travelled the length and breadth of the Nordic countries in five workshops – theatre, dance, circus, visual art and music – meeting local artists who each opened up a new world for them.

María led the theatre group from remote Modalen in Norway to the mountains of Tromsø, out onto the floodplains of Lapland and finally to eastern Finland. It was quite a spectacle that two thousand people saw on an island in the middle of the city tonight.