Marit Shirin is a choreographer, dancer and founder of the network-organisation Humans & Soil. Her roots are in Kurdistan, Iraq and Frostviken/Hotagen in Sápmi. Her artistry is based upon merging writing together with various dance practices that derives from her embodied experiences of indigeneity. She is constantly exploring, experimenting and challenging the view on the Indigenous body and her in-between identity, seeking her own rituals with dance and choreographic practice.

Sebastian is a dancer with his roots in Ammarnäs and Karesuando, Sápmi. His artistry is exploring versatility as a mover, interested in the body as ancestral yet also experimental when it comes to claiming his own indigeneity through dance. The longing for finding his heritage is creating traces in the soil that connects his body to the land where his ancestors have walked for generations. Path finding and locating his history creates a narrative in his movements that touches upon community, openness and curiosity for the threads we are weaving in between each other.

Linnéa is a dancer originally from Umeå and with her Sámi roots from Västerbotten, Sápmi. She is also one of the initiators of the research project "Weaving Stories" together with Marit Shirin Carolasdotter that had its first online residency with NPO S-AIR in Japan 2020. Her artistic practice involves dance as a transformative embodiment - each initiation of movement varies depending on her surroundings; energies, people and connection to spaces. Her curiosity for new encounters in this world as well as the past, is intrinsic for her to grow roots, creating the weft of the performance, in which the ancestral body unfolds her Indigenous spirit.

Nina is a musician , artist and composer with her base in Jåhkkåmåhkke, Sápmi. Her artistry is a unique fuse between multimodal expressions that creates beautiful soundscapes which echoes in our physical exploration. Together with rhythm, bones, guitar, breathing and Yoik/Jojk, Nina's artistic practice conveys the ancestral and experimental embodiment of Indigenous authenticity and spirit of mother earth. In the project she is joyfully sharing her international experiences with a multi-cultural approach to music as well as her own personal interpretation of traditional music.

Brenda creates electroacoustic music inspired by her complex musical language inherent by her christian Lebanese heritage. She joined Humans & Soil in 2022 as a live musician who has previously studied under Annelie Nederberg and is a graduate from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In her artistry, Brenda mixes sounds, ideas, vocals, melodies and rhythms from the arabic sound world with the western sound world. In everything she does, wether producing music or DJ:ing, you’ll hear those two worlds collide.

Annelie is a composer, performer and sound artist with her roots in Sundsvall, Västernorrland. Her artistry shows a remarkable interconnection between movement, voice, electronic sounds and experimental practice with objects. Her body is involved with the movement of her self-developed feedback instruments, as well as creating mesmerising sounds from coffee grinders, metal bowls and bubblewrap. The magical and intimate weave of abstract sounds unfolds traces and pathways in our bodies that are an intrinsic part in exploring our ritual.

Juvvá Pittja is a multimodal artist that has his roots in Norrbotten and based in Umeå/Ubmeje.
In this performance he works as a performer and dramaturg. The contributions of spoken word and text bolster the political weight of the show, and the Sámi struggle for independence and autonomy.