Adam Seid Tahir
Full length performance within 36 hours of dance 23–24 oct 2026
ADAM SEID TAHIR
and from their hair, unending forest
FULL LENGTH PERFORMANCE AT MDT, MODERNA DANSTEATERN
15.00 24th of October 2026
and from their hair, unending forest departs from the rune Thurisaz (ᚦ), which is associated with giants, beings who, in Norse mythology, are cast as enemies of the gods and linked to chaos, threat, and otherness. Adam Seid Tahir examines these attributions and draws parallels to the marginalization of Black people. At the center is the figure of Ymir, an intersex being who, according to myth, was murdered and from whose body the world emerged.
Through the geography of death, afterlife, and the non-linearity of time, the stage becomes a world of transformation: a place where the body becomes weather, where hair becomes unending forests, where anger, sadness, and grief intertwine. “and from their hair, unending forest” invites the audience into an atmospheric world of myth and legend.
Adam Seid Tahir
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work, web-based work and more.
Seid Tahir is interested in runology and the idea of an Afro-Nordic folklore. Their work tries to retell the history and mythology of the Nordic land on which they grew up and still live on through a queer Afro-diasporic and post-anthropocentric lens.
All of Seid Tahir’s works deal with the personal and mythological as political. Through this they construct emotional and sensory fictive worlds where they critique certain societal constructions. In other words, they use fiction to create resistance, question and distort different subjects and realities.
Seid Tahir has presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), MDT (SE), Kampnagel Summer Festival (DE), Tanzquartier (AT), Dansehallerne (DK), Emergentia (CH), Bâtard (BE), My Wild Flag (SE), Dubrovnik Summer Festival (HR), Dance Umbrella (UK) and more. They continuously work with other artists including: Meleat Fredriksson, Lydia Östberg Diakité and Amina Seid Tahir.
Choreography, Performance: Adam Seid Tahir
Sound Design: Tati au Miel
Lighting Design: Jonatan Winbo
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Co-produced by: Kampnagel International Summer Festival, MDT, Rosendal Teater,Norrlandsoperan
Supported by: The City of Stockholm, The Nordic Culture Fund, Inkonst, MARC, HAUT, Ravnedans