In the name of listening

In the Name of Listening
Performance by Marie Hauge Jensen (DK) & Leif Saandvig Immanuelsen (GL)
Presented at Det Grønlandske Hus

In In the Name of Listening, Danish performance artist Marie Hauge Jensen and Greenlandic drum dancer Leif Saandvig Immanuelsen meet on a shared white canvas—a symbolic space of both silence and potential.

Positioned at opposite ends of the long cloth, they begin to drum. Each beat releases pigment from the surface of their drums, casting arcs of color across the canvas. Over time, the surface transforms: sound becomes color, rhythm becomes trace, movement becomes memory.

The work is a ritual of resonance, an act of listening across cultural memory, colonial history, and personal presence.

The white canvas evokes history and potential—and becomes a field where difference is not erased, but made visible through mutual imprint.

Rooted in the traditions of body-based performance, indigenous ritual, and minimal gesture, In the Name of Listening invites the audience into a space of slow witnessing. It asks: What does it take to truly listen to one another? What traces do we leave when we try?

This is not reconciliation as resolution, but reconciliation as rhythm: unfolding, imperfect, and alive.