Sailing on Hawila from port to port to inspire people across borders
A celebration, a routine, a crash and finally cooperation.
What is at the core of sustainable living?
”Into the Water” is a sailing performance and mini-festival that can travel the world to inspire people, artists, and activists, through contemporary circus, physical theatre and workshops. The performance aims to create a wave of inspiration and action for a more sustainable future, through the themes of climate psychology, cycles and water.
Our stage and home is Hawila, a two masted wooden sailing ship.
The use of the ship as our stage forces us to re-think and develop our disciplines, and challenge the idea of what circus is and can be today. Water is a link between people, nature and land – and is linking us throughout our performance. We have water and cycles as a theme to bring forward not the individual issues of climate change but more to think about and be able to talk about the global issues in how society thinks and functions on this planet.
“Into the Water” is a close collaboration with the no-profit organisation Hawila Project. Since 1935 Hawila has worked as an ice-freighter and a training vessel around the Göteborg Peninsula. Now the crew are working towards honoring its legacy by developing a network of trade, education and cultural exchange. Through community-based and self-organised festivals and events led by volunteers, the organisation restored Hawila to sailing condition in 2017. Now, the team is working on a complete ship overhaul to enable her to continue her cultural activities and trade sustainable goods across the Atlantic.
Tour 2019
| 30th June | Copenhagen (DK), Premiere |
| 4th-5th July | Aalborg (DK), Tall Ship Races |
| 12th-14th July | Fredrikstad (NO), Tall Ship Races |
| 19th-21st July | Oslo (NO) |
| 26th-28th July | Melsomvik (NO) |
| 8th-11th August | Rostock (DE) |
| 16th-18th August | Copenhagen (DK) |
