Name: DAWN // Adam Seid Tahir
Start: 2026-01-15T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Kvitsøygt 25, 4014 Stavanger, Norway

$DAWN \/\/ Adam Seid Tahir$

Disclaimer: This is the story of the working creatures of the mythology. Not the gods.
In Norse mythology, Skinfaxi pulls Dagr's (day's) chariot across the sky, its radiant mane lighting up the heavens and earth. Hrímfaxi draws Nótt's (night's) chariot, scattering "froth" from its bite, which falls as dew. Bound in an eternal cycle, they gallop through shifting shades of light. In the fleeting twilight between dawn and dusk, a moment of exchange occurs - the start of a new journey. Dawn by Adam Seid Tahir is the first performance in a series reinterpreting Norse mythology and the Elder Futhark runic alphabet through a queer Afro-Nordic lens. Rooted in the rune Dagaz - symbolizing day, dawn, and awakening - the piece explores the power of day and night, light and dark, often falsely confined to a moral binary of good and evil. At once a continuation of mythmaking and a political gesture, the work inserts a Black queer body into Nordic mythology.
Adam Seid Tahir is a choreographer whose practice employs speculative imagination as a tool of resistance. Their work centers on crafting immersive, unapologetically Black queer fiction, engaging with mythological figures, daydreaming as a portal for inspiration, and interrogating belonging in the Nordic context.
Credit
Choreography, Performance: Adam Seid Tahir
Sound design: Tati Au Miel
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costume design: Isabelle Edi
Manufacturing, hoofs: Hanna Kisch, Nina Johansson
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Technical coordination: Angela X
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Co-production with Sophiensæle, Centrale Fies, Dansens Hus, MDT, Tou Scene, Slingan Tre Scener (Atalante, Dansstationen, MDT). Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The City of Stockholm, Nordic Culture Point, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse. This co-production is part of Life Long Burning - Futures lost and found project (2023-2026) supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Adam Bio:
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Seid Tahir uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centres their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines. These interests often intersect through water, where they take the shape of sirens, waterfalls and submerged transatlantic communication cables.
In their latest works Seid Tahir keeps returning to the practice of braiding hair. Both its traditional meaning with its ancestral social traditions and through the expanded idea of braiding as a method for working together. In the latter notion Adam has recently collaborated with Amina Seid Tahir and the collective EMBRACE (Lydia Östberg Diakité, Meleat Fredriksson and Adam Seid Tahir). They have presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023 (BE), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne 2022 (DK), Emergentia 2022 (CH), Batard 2022 (BE), My Wild Flag 2021 (SE) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival 2020 (HR). They have worked with other artists including: Bambam Frost, Pontus Pettersson, Frederic Gies, Theo Clinkard, Samlingen, Meleat Fredriksson, Lydia Östberg Diakité, Amina Seid Tahir, Paloma Madrid, Eleanor Bauer, Zoë Poluch and Michael Keegan-Dolan.