GIDÁGIESSE

About Gidágiesse

Gidágiesse, "Spring summer" ​A dance film created in Sápmi. A film about the important season spring summer, one of the eight sami seasons and about what it means to the Sami.

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Gidágiesse, which means spring summer in Lule Sámi, is a dance film project that aims to elevate Sámi culture and society through film / screen dance. The theme for the film will be the season spring summer, which is the time when both the calves are born and grow, a very important part of the reindeer herding year.

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All this will be embodied in dance, movement, yoik, newly written music and costume in the Lule Sámi area, around Jokkmokk.

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