Visuals
Saami Requiem
Studio Acusticum
Piteå, Sweden
September 2020

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Saami Requiem is a pagan soul mass and a Sami spring sacrifice, which invites the audience to a musical and visual experience where boundaries between past and present have been blurred. Here we get to follow the Sami soul mourner Nåjden, on his journey to the other world. An underground world rich in knowledge and magic, belonging to the protective spirits Sájva. Only those who have met Death will come here and from here only those who have mastered it and thus the art will resurrect again.

Saami Requiem is a unique musical meeting between classical and progressive organ music, Sami yoik, electric guitar, percussion and modern Sami dance.
Gunnar Idenstam’s organ music together with Ola Stinnerbom’s yoik, Erik Weissglas’ electric guitar and Rafael Sida Huizar’s percussion. Dancer is Henrietta Wallgren.

Music: Gunnar Idenstam and Ola Stinnerbom
Choreography and direction: Ola Stinnerbom
Dancers: Henrietta Wallberg and Ola Stinnerbom
Musicians: Gunnar Idenstam, Ola Stinnerbom, Erik Weissglas, Rafael Sida Huizar
Visual Artist: Ignacio Acosta
Mask: Cais-Marie Björnlod
Artistic producer: Liz- Marie Nilsen

Organizer: Dance in the North

Saami Requiem is produced with the support of Studio Acusticum, Dance in the North, Norrbotten Region, Statens Musikverk, Statens Kulturråd and Studiefrämjandet in Luleå