Nils-Aslak Valkeapää: The Frost-haired and the Dream-seer
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Titel: The Frost-haired and the Dream-seer : A poetry concert, or Juoigan-nō
Oorspronkelijke titel: Ritnoaivi ja nieguid oaidni, 1995
Vertaald uit het Samisch door: Harald Gaski
Genre: toneel
Uitgever: DAT, 2020
ISBN13: 978-8290625967
Drietalig: Samisch - Engels - Japans
Flaptekst / Beschrijving
A poetry concert, or Juoigan-nō, written according to the tradition of Noh theatre.
First performed at Sapporo, Sapporo City Education and Culture Hall & Tenjin-yama September 12 and 14 1995.
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From Junichiro Okura’s foreword: “In Sapporo, on the Hokkaidō island, they held the Arctic Peoples’ gathering in 1995. The organisers asked Áilu to create a play, that eventually became Ritnoaivi ja nieguid oaidni. They only had one demand: it had to contain yoik. Áilu contacted me and asked for advice. I already knew that he liked the traditional Japanese culture, especially nō theatre. I also knew that the spirit of nō theatre fit Áilu’s spirit. … In a few months the script for Ritnoaivi ja nieguid oaidni was finished.
In the performance, a young reindeer herder takes a nap by the fire and begins dreaming. In the dream he and the old yoiker converse about a philosophy of life. Eventually it becomes apparent that the old yoiker is the reindeer herder when he grows older.
Áilu’s version is based on poetry and yoik, which the western view of theatre would see as a poetry concert, but in nō theatre that is considered a fully adequate performance.
It is a great honor for me to get to talk about Áillohaš’ Ritnoaivi ja nieguid oaidni, which he left as a prayer and a testimony for youth in Sápmi and all over the world. That is why it is so important that it will now be published in multiple languages.”