Drum and mask dance combine two different traditions but blend social dynamics and Greenlandic cultural history. The dances give us an insight into a Greenland that was and remains embedded in spending time with family and friends, thrills and smiles, and myths and mysticism.

2013年5月8日 · Uaajeerneq, pronounced »ooaaah-yernerk« is perhaps the oldest dramatical expression among the Inuit People of Greenland. It was an important part of the old Aasivik, the summer gatherings where serious questions in the community were solved, but also songs and dances were shared.

2020年6月17日 · Uaajeerneq (the Greenland Mask Dance) is an important part of the traditional Greenlandic culture that was originally used during the darkness of winter for entertainment, seduction, and fun. It was also used to scare kids to prepare them for a future that may be unsettling from time to time.

In the 70’s a group of young Greenlanders at a Tuukkaq Theatre, reinvented the mask dance. This type of mask dance will be the type of dance you see today. So, the Greenlandic mask dance is both very traditional, but also something Greenlanders had to reinvent and reclaim.

This performance was inspired by Uajii, or Mask Dance, a Greenlandic Inuit dance arranged and led by two Pearson students from Greenland and performed, with ...

2011年7月21日 · During a McGill University psychiatry social event, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory talks about the symbolism behind a Greenlandic Mask Dance (Uaajeerneq). To the delight (and shock) of the crowd,...

Follow along using the transcript. She was performing at the Jokkmokk marknad 2013. This is part of her performance of a traditional mask dance.

Mask dancing is an approximately 4,000-year-old tradition that has been used especially during the winter time as entertainment. The dance is impromptu and occurs in the meeting with the audience. It varies regionally and spans three overarching themes: to …

Greenlandic mask dancing is one of the oldest forms of story-telling, in which the performer incorporates three key emotions into a routine: humor, fear and sexuality. Once upon a time, driftwood masks were modeled on human faces, often with …

‘Uaajeerneq’ - the Greenlandic Maskdance is the oldest dramatical expression among the Inuits in Greenland. The tradition has been approximately alive for around 3000 to 4000 years, and for the last centuries especially on the eastern side of Greenland.