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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Luke Bainbridge

‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making a new project in Greenland

Andy Ferguson of Bicep in Greenland.
‘If it starts people on a journey to learn more about Greenland then it’s achieved something’ … Andy Ferguson of Bicep in Greenland. Photograph: Charlie Miller

Russell glacier, at the edge of Greenland’s vast ice sheet, sounds as if it’s crying: moans emanate from deep within the slowly but inexorably melting ice. Andy Ferguson, one half of dance duo Bicep, walks around in its towering shadow recording these eerie sounds. “Everyone comes back changed,” he says of Greenland. “Seeing first-hand climate change happening like this.”

It’s April 2023 and, in the wake of Bicep’s second album Isles cementing them as one of the leading electronic acts globally, Ferguson has travelled to Greenland as part of a project to collaborate with Indigenous musicians and bring the momentous struggle of this region – and even the planet – into focus.

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