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Weird. Neat. But, Weird
This past Friday I attended the premiere of the Icelandic Dance Company’s ‘TAUGAR’ a two part performance with works by Saga Sigurðardóttir and Karol Tyminski. I had recently interviewed Karol and I was really looking forward to seeing his piece as well…
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Testing The Body’s Limits
Just in time for the Reykjavík Dance Festival, the Icelandic Dance Company presents TAUGAR, with two works choreographed by Saga Sigurðardóttir and Karol Tyminski. As we at GV HQ are all super into that modern dance thing, we decided to meet up…
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Here Be Dragons
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, French and American geologists conducted surveys in the Norwegian Sea and discovered the Jan Mayen Microcontinent about 1,000 metres below sea level. It is a fragment left over from when the borders of Norway and…
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Get To Know: Almannavarnadeild
Recently, I tagged along with the Icelandic security research forum Nexus (not to be confused with our 2014 ‘Best Bookstore’ Nexus) to meet with an officer from Almannavarnadeild, Iceland’s Civil Protection Unit. Nexus is a research forum in the field of security…
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Here’s What You Need to Know About Dropping Oil Prices and Drekasvæðið
Lately it seems that people are getting more and more concerned about the dropping price of oil. This is perhaps less obvious to those of us buying petrol in Iceland, but some Icelanders are questioning whether the search for oil in Drekasvæðið…
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Rauðasandur Hiatus 2015
Much to the disappointment of countless music fans, the Rauðasandur Festival will not be held again this year. Rauðasandur has been an annual fixture for the past four years, but two of those four had to be moved to a nearby indoor-site…