Performer Name: Nick Hennessey
Show Name: Dreaming the Great Bear
Show Description
An Immersive and dynamic storytelling performance A cow stands in a fire holding sun and moon between her horns. A pine martin gathers spit from the mouth of a bear to brew beer. An egg falls from a nest balanced on the sky-girl’s knee. And from its broken shards, nothing becomes something… Storyteller, musician and singer Nick Hennessey forges a world into being. Here in the Finnish far north the light is a just little too bright and the dark a little too blinding, the rivers flow fast and deep, and it’s all too easy to get lost in the forest. Held within a wild enchanted soundscape of story, song, percussion, electric harp and vocal looping– this remarkable performance of elemental epic lures us into the untamed, playful, and surreal territories of the Finnish creation myth – the Kalevala.
