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Dancing In Darkness: The Icelandic Dance Company Welcomes Winter
Premiering in November at the arts festival Everybody’s Spectacular, The Best of Darkness by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson is the final piece in a series of four works exploring the human body’s vulnerability in the absence of light. The pieces were…
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Rite Of Spring: ‘Fórn’ Is Now Showing In Reykjavík
Somewhere between the repugnant and the pure, the orgiastic and the tortuous, the brutal and the delicate, there is sacrifice. A sacrifice of the physical, the psychic or of long-held ideals. In ‘Fórn’ (“Sacrifice,” in English), the new performance by the Iceland…
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Today At The Reykjavík Dance Festival: Sunday 30 August
The Reykjavík Dance Festival (RDF) is in full swing, five glorious days of performances, workshops, and more. Navigating the schedule can be a daunting task, so read on for a short list of things to look out for today. ‘Crisis Meeting’ by the Kriðpleir Theatre…
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Body Talk: A Dancer And An Actress Converse, Prepare To Shake Things Up
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir and Erna Ómarsdóttir are performers who, although their reputations precede them, are too busy making quality work to spend much time bathing in the limelight. In fact, they may very well be the kinds of creative forces that a nation…
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Review: ‘Blæði: Obsidian Pieces’
For this year’s Reykjavík Arts Festival, Iceland Dance Company presents ‘Blæði: obsidian pieces,’ made up of four works by Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet. The premiere met with overwhelmingly positive reviews from dance aficionados and rookies alike. It’s an outstanding overall performance, but…
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Choreographer Damien Jalet on making ‘BLÆÐI: obsidian pieces’
This month, Iceland Dance Company will present ‘BLÆÐI: obsidian pieces’ as part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival. The show is a combination of four works by Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet, conceived both independently and with the help of collaborating choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir…
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ArtsFest Q&A: Erna Ómarsdóttir, Iceland Dance Company
In the third of our series of interviews with women working in the Icelandic arts, we talked to Erna Ómarsdóttir, the creative director of the Iceland Dance Company. This year’s focus is women in art. Do you think there’s still some way…
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Third Time’s The Charm
This past weekend I attended ‘walk+talk’ at Borgarleikhúsið as part of the Reykjavík Dance Festival (RDF). I knew very little about the performance but was eager to see it after Ásgerður Gunnarsdóttir, one of the artistic directors of RDF, said it was…
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Speak Dance, Watch Dance, Dance, Dance!
Throughout the month of February, the Reykjavík Dance Festival (RDF) will be in full swing. What started as a group of independent artists looking for a platform to work on their art has since developed into an established festival with four major…
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Transaquania: A Breath of Fresh Air
Breath. What is not seen? What is taken for granted? What is repressed? What, through years of neglect, vanishes as its protest? To breathe. We love to love what we do not know. We hate to love what sustains us. To breathe…