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  • Epic, Glorious, Stupid: Dance For Me In Your Living Room

    Epic, Glorious, Stupid: Dance For Me In Your Living Room

    Since forming in 2013, local Reykjavík performance group Dance For Me, created by British-born Brogan Davison and Icelandic-born Pétur Ármannsson, has been performing across the world, playing shows in Germany, Finland, Italy and Canada, amongst others. But this November they’re staying much…

  • STRIPP: Discussing Women’s Role In Society And On Stage

    STRIPP: Discussing Women’s Role In Society And On Stage

    “I found the strip club where I worked to be like a micro version of the world we live in, with the exchange of money, hierarchies and greed, only in a much smaller sense,” Olga Sonja Thorarensen, a dancer and actress, tells…

  • Remembrance and Re-Remembrance

    Remembrance and Re-Remembrance

    Following the astounding success of their last collaboration, “Dansaðu fyrir mig,” (‘Dance for Me’), collaborators (and fiances) Pétur Ármannsson and Brogan Davison have used their new show “Petra” to reapproach some of the former show’s more fertile topics—artistic creation and family—while also dipping into…

  • When Dreams Become Realities

    When Dreams Become Realities

    In early 2012, 49-year-old Ármann Einarsson, a music school principal with a potbelly that he frequently, fondly, pats, sent a Facebook message to Brogan Davison, his son Pétur’s girlfriend, who is also a choreographer and dancer. “It said, ‘Hæ, Hæ: This is…