Featuring vertical dance on Greenland’s glaciers and in Arctic landscapes, the films create a sensory experience of the beauty and fragility of nature.

Maliina Jensen (b. 1990) is an Inuit artist from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), whose artistic practice explores vertical dance, site-specific performance, and dance film in remote landscapes. As an educator and board member at Nunatta Qiteqatigiittarfiat (NuQi Dance Centre), she works to promote dance education and experiences for people of all ages.

At OPENINGS, she presents Tunu, Apusiaajik and Re-forming Glaciers – three dance films that place the human body within Greenland’s magnificent landscapes to highlight their scale, beauty, and fragility. Filmed at Point 660 on the Inland Ice, in Ilulissat, Kulusuk, and on the island of Apusiaajik, the films combine dance, visual art, and environmental storytelling into an aesthetic and sensory experience of glaciers and the remote landscapes of the Arctic.

The films invite the audience to experience Kalaallit Nunaat through the scale of the human body, offering an intimate perspective on the country’s remote landscapes, glaciers, and a changing climate. All rigging was performed using only natural anchor points, ensuring the sites were left exactly as they were found.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Price: Free admission.
Date: September 9 - 12, 2026, at 12:00 PM, September 16 - 18, 2026, at 12:00 PM, and September 19, 2026, at 11:00 AM
Duration: The films will be screened on a loop throughout the festival in Dansehallerne’s Studio 2.
Location: Studio 2, Dansehallerne Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V
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