‘Earth voices’, is pre-production research for developing a global artistic concept, choreographic method, and a manifesto to visualize the mindset and quality of the indigenous languages through the language of dance & movement.

This research project provides a platform through which indigenous participants can cross-examine their experience of being multicultural, multilingual, and cross-disciplinary artists, when living and working within the western world dialogue and discourse. It questions how do we engage, interact and provide reciprocity, when moving between languages, between disciplines. It interrogates what is lost, assumed, and transformed when moving between cultural-views and perspectives. And lastly, it enquires, What would change if the body itself becomes the translator not with the use of words but through the aesthetics of movement and dance? Inherently in all languages there lies a cultural understanding and perspective of the world/s that represents the experiences of the language carriers, it determines us as we are being determined.

The project showcases research, ideation and experimentation by artists from different parts of the world such as Australia, Greenland, Japan, India & Sápmi/Norway, and with the support of the Norwegian Arts Council – Kulturradet, Preliminary Project Performing Arts Funding