​Nine professional dance artists connected to the North Atlantic Islands will work for two weeks in Nuuk to meet and mentor young aspiring Greenlandic dancers as well as dive into one’s own and others’ choreographic structures and ideas. The project will be hosted in the facilities of our local collaborators NuQi Dance, the newly emerged Dance and competency centre and NAPA, The Nordic Institute in Greenland. Through an open call we will gather two professional dance artists from each respective country and six mentees from Greenland to participate. 

The first week we will focus on choreographic structures and ideas. The days will start with a morning class, giving the artists the opportunity to work on their physical practice and to inspire each other through new dance material and approaches. Throughout the week each artist will have half a day to present and work on their choreographic idea with the other participating artists. Here the aim is not to produce but rather to research, spark creativity and strengthen the community. Nor is it a goal in itself for it to necessarily lead to future collaborations, however, we see the approach to be a way for each artist to find new colleagues that they can relate to and learn from. 

The second week will lead into meeting and starting the mentorship with the Greenlandic youth dancers. The aim of this week is to connect the project to some of the direct needs of the Greenlandic dance scene, which the Network discovered during our initial research and mapping phase in 2023. Together with the professional dance artists, the youth will experience what it is to emerge themselves in a creative process and work with choreography in close collaboration with the nine professional dancers.

Through this process we wish to achieve that the youth get to experience what a life as a professional dancer can entail. Our aim of this mentorship process is to give the youth the opportunity to ask questions and have conversations that are needed to make informed choices within following the path of dance. The six youth dancers will each be appointed to a professional dancer as their individual mentor throughout the week. They will keep contact and work with their mentors on an aspect of choreography that the youth dancers themselves individually will choose. They will work digitally for two months towards the Suialaa Arts Festival in October 2025. During the Suialaa Arts festival we will participate in talks and together with the youth dancers present some of our  choreographic work.

Some of the days throughout the two weeks in Nuuk will finish with round-table-talks and meeting local artists and institutions. This is to give the visiting artists a chance to get to know the Greenlandic art scene and connect, discuss and learn from one another outside the dance studio. Even though the aim of this extended network meeting in Nuuk, is not to have a finished product, we still wish to utilise the fact of having gathered professional dance artists in Greenland. Thus, on the last day the professional dance artists and the six youth dancers will present an instant composition/improvisation based on the newly acquired knowledge. In Greenland, much similar to its other North Atlantic Island counterparts, they are working on establishing and broadening the perspective of dance as an artform. Therefore, we find it exciting to share this spontaneous format with the Greenlandic public.​