Author: Ellen de Jong
Haircut Happiness
Getting a haircut has always been a difficult thing for me. All these choices you need to make: Which salon?…
10 Reasons to Go to the Reykjavík International Film Festival
1 This is a once a year chance to see the best independent films from all over the world. The…
The Reykjavík Dance Festival
Johann Freyr Björgvinsson is one of the founding choreographers of the Reykjavík Dance Festival. Started four years ago, the festival…
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To mourn the victims, a memorial was…
Videy: Not Just Landscape
Surrounded Blind Pavilion by Ólafur Eliasson was originally made for the Venice Biennale Art Festival in 2003 and was put…
Chocolate and Family Values
What is it with Johnny Depp’s fascination for chocolate? First he dates a woman who owns a chocolate store (Juliette…
Not Just Modern, Van Halen Modern:
Colourful and with as much variety as possible, that is how choreographer Ástrós Gunnarsdóttir describes this year’s Reykjavík Dance Festival….