Handlinger i Jorden is a new regeneration myth about the abuse of our planet’s natural resources and present exhaustion of our ecosystems. It’s about finding new tools and insisting on transformation by providing our soil nourishment and moisture, from Sofie Isager Ahl’s book Demeter’s Laughter (LAE, 2022).

Following Persephone, the goddess of crops, who is abducted and dragged underground by Plutone, the king of the underworld. We experience on close hand, her loss of self and direction being surrounded by the dark soil – her dissolvement. She regenerates, adapts, develops plant senses and sprouts.

COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE & SOPRANO Katinka Fogh Vindelev, TEXT Sofie Isager Ahl, CHOREOGRAPHIC consultant Marie Topp Performed with RECORDER PLAYER Kirsten Aage Handlinger i Jorden was premiered as a performance concert at Kunsthal 44, Møn Denmark.