Review of SOIL by Michael Søby
“Sarah Aviaja Hammeken manages to combine a certain visual poetry with powerful physical expression.”
Review of WHITEOUT by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
“I’ve never had suicide close to my life. But the performance pulled me into a state of loss so insistent that it penetrated deeply.”
Review of WHITEOUT by Dorte Grannov Balslev
“Whiteout reminds us of the value of relationships, despite the price of love.”
Review of WHITEOUT by Michael Søby
“Rarely has a dance performance managed to convey a spiritual state so precisely and authentically as here.”
Review of WHITEOUT by Casper Koeller
“… an infinitely beautiful work.”
Review of WHITEOUT by Anne Middelboe Christensen
“WHITEOUT is a breakthrough of dimensions.”
Powerful Poetics
by Sascia Bailer __ for Berlin Art Week
Review of SILA by Vibeke Wern
“Sila, which premiered earlier in January in Nuuk, Greenland, is a beautiful, evocative and poetic performance.”
Review of SILA by Anne Middelboe Christensen
”The Danish-Greenlandic dancer and choreographer Sarah Aviaja Hammeken has created a sense awakening performance for her company Aviaja Dance – filled with female strength and tenderness”.
Review of SILA by Casper Koeller
“The sound of a net being thrown.
Sarah Aviaja Hammeken’s poetic dance performance SILA not only contains the myth of Sassuma Arnaa from the Greenlandic mythology. The visually beautiful and sonically elegant stage universe – created by composer Gerth Lyberth and light designer Brian Cord’homme – makes the perfect setting for Hammeken’s choreography, allowing the audience to feel and understand the dancers’ story
on stage.“