Arctic Women – Svalbard Movements
- Year
- 2019
- Type
- Theatre
- Role
- Actor, writer and producer
- Director
- Inger Buresund
Arctic Women is a new work about women in the Arctic and the effect of nature on the human soul, developed by María and the Norwegian actor Juni Dahr together with the Finnish dancer Reijo Kela and the set designer Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson.
Arctic Women – Svalbard Movements is its first version and premiered at Taubanecentralen, an old coal-railway station in Longyearbyen, in the autumn of 2019.
Svalbard Movements is based on the diaries of women who lived on Svalbard: Léonie d’Aunet from France, the first woman to visit Svalbard, in 1838; Hanne Resvold-Holmsen from Norway, a botanist who walked its land in 1907; Christiane Ritter from Austria, who spent a winter in a trapper’s hut with her husband in 1934; and Ellen Nøis from Norway, who gave birth there alone while her husband was out hunting.
María Ellingsen and Reijo Kela performed to an original score by Tore Brunborg, played live by him with Per Oddvar and the male choir of the coal mining company Store Norske. María performed in Norwegian.
