Storytelling
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Lunisolar Mind IX: Wolf Moon #27
We are still in the grip of winter, the sky is occluded by grey fur, and the tough love of the Wolf Moon grabs us by the scruff of our necks. Reminding us to wake up from our slumber, to contain our own power, and make our own luck.
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Year of Aun – Story as Healing, Story as Curse #26
Historian of religion and animist thinker Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is back on our podcast! This time to launch the Year of Aun, an invitation to celebrate 2023 as a year of healing and reconnection based on old Nordic spiritual practices.
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Birthday Special #24
We have an anniversary! Podcast hosts Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene are in a festive mood and look back at one year of "In the Borderlands". We speak about the podcast's humble origins, how we met and what it means to be a performance storyteller.
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Kersti Ståbi: Vǫluspá – performing poems from the Poetic Edda #22
Vǫluspá - The Prophecy of the Seeress from the Poetic Edda is one of the most well known texts from Norse mythology. But how could this oral poem have been performed?
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Lunisolar Mind VI – Slaughter Moon #21
Dark October is upon us, and the ominous Slaughter Moon takes us for a spin through tales of dismemberment, inklings of werewolves and musings about the nature of light.
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Ben Haggarty: MeZoLith – Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares #12
Ben Haggarty is one of the world's leading contemporary storytellers, who creates and performs work inspired by international fairy tale, myth and epic. His deep research into ancient stories and cultures also led to the graphic novel series MeZolith with artist Adam Brockbank. Starting from this stone age horror project, we explore all sorts of questions surrounding research and telling (and re-telling) of traditional narrative.
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Easter Special: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene with Jo Blake #10
We are happy to welcome back Jo Blake from episode #3 to talk about her upcoming project The Witness, based on the Gospel of Mary – a 5th century text that casts the teachings of Christ in a different light. Join us for this easter deep dive into gnostic gospels and buried knowledge.
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Dominic Kelly: The Hero Light – Irish Myth and Epic #8
Dominic Kelly is a performance storyteller who has ventured deep into the vast landscape of stories that surround the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn – so much so that he cycled around Ireland to see all the mythical places found in the Táin, sometimes called Ireland’s National Epic or the Irish Iliad.
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Performance premiere special: HRIST – an act of divination with KAI-EN and Mikael Öberg #7
"All of the drama of divination serves to move the participants out of their normal modes of thinking, shaking them up in order to change their minds because their current understanding of the situation is inadequate."
February 25th 2022 sees the premiere of a brand new collaboration between performance storyteller Mikael Öberg and butoh artist KAI-EN: HRIST – an act of divination.
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Christmas Yuletide Special: The Pig #4
At this time of year, when pork will be served on many a holiday plate, we turn our attention to the pig - an animal both loved and loathed since ancient times. What are its mythological connections?
Join us in the divine muck, where we encounter kings and goddesses from Greek and Norse Mythology, as well as Celtic Druids and a fearsome ghost pig from the Swedish midwinter forests.