Girls’ Club presents Offsite Performance: Searching for Arctic Winter, a poetic, multi-media performance from the Broward-based artist Jenny Larsson, and the last in the series of four events commissioning local artists to create innovate multi-disciplinary performance projects in Broward County.

Artist, choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Wild Beast Collective Jenny Larsson and company embarks on an epic journey in search of home in Searching for Arctic Winter. Larsson is joined by Wild Beast dancers Rachel Carroll, Lize-Lotte Pitlo and collaborator Marie Whitman, founder of Eat Your Poem poetry project.

Through original dance, choreography and poetry, Larsson transports a dark warehouse in Fort Lauderdale’s FATVillage Arts District, to the snow capped, wild winter wonderland that straddles the Arctic Circle. Born on the slopes of a small mountain village in northern Sweden, Larsson grew up surrounded by the deep forests, white snow and dark winters of Scandinavia.

“I have this love/hate relationship I have to the real arctic winters I experienced growing up in the north of Sweden. The darkness, the cold, the dangers and what this climate does to the people having to live through it year after year. The stories, the mythologies, certain images that stays with you.”

Literal and abstract references to winter, snow and the arctic wilderness abound in this evening performance of Searching for Arctic Winter. Oral histories, legends and stories of the area and its uniquely Nordic environs are folded into the performance, as performers interpret the season through body and movement. All music written and performed by Scandinavian musicians, with a terrestrial soundscape created from on-site recordings in Sweden of snowstorms and forests.

In Searching for Arctic Winter, the search for home, for the familiar, for the way we remember things, is both personal and universal in this haunting performance. As the dancers search for winter, they seek a home that is lost. Referencing loss not only in the nature of emigration, Searching for Arctic Winter alludes to the much larger, marching loss brought on by a changing climate and shifting temperatures felt across the world.

“And what’s left is just darkness, and weird temperature shifts. This occurs fairly often nowadays in the north, in areas such as where I am from.” says Larsson.

This program is funded in part by Broward Cultural Division and Funding Arts Broward.

Doors open at 7:30pm. Performance at 8pm. Join us at Projects South, FATVillage, 517 NW 1 Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.