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Grapevine Events: Reykjavík Dance Festival, RAFLOST, Icelandic Language Day
We’re currently in the middle of The Reykjavík Dance Festival! There’s a smattering of different events: graduation shows, a political retelling of Swan Lake, a rave for babies. Our journalist Iryna Zubenko interviewed organisers and dancers behind the festival, which you can…
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Give In To The Conversation
Iceland Dance Company launches the season with The Simple Act of Letting Go It begins with simply one person, one man, alone on stage, standing still and staring into space. Suddenly he breaks with a startle of kinetic, stomping dance steps but…
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Grapevine Events: Oscar Jerome, Piercing Fundraiser, Aldubáran, and Heim!
Oscar Jerome, Ari Árelius, & Ash Walker (DJ Set) October 14th at 20:30 – Hurra – 3.500 ISK It’s not every day someone labelled as “one to watch” by The Guardian comes over to Iceland to treat us to an evening of…
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Grapevine Events: Icelandic Dance Company, Sea Zumba And Pantheon!
Icelandic Dance Company – Ball September 23rd at 20:00 – Borgarleikhúsið- 5,900 ISK Have a Ball this Friday night by joining Íslenski dansflokkurinn for a performance which brings together dancers of all different styles and backgrounds in collaboration with core members of…
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Iceland Dance Company Wins 2020 Subjektprisen Cultural Prize
The Iceland Dance Company (IDC) has been awarded the 2020 Subjektprisen, one of the most coveted cultural awards in Norway, for the performance DuEls, which was performed in the Gustav Vigeland Museum. We reached out to IDC art director Erna Ómarsdóttir to…
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The Strength Of Sensitivity: Entanglements in New Dance Piece Þel
We strive to connect. We crave touch and intimacy. We want to belong and be a part of something. We strive to feel some shared experience. These are not questions to be answered in Þel, Katrín Gunnarsdóttir’s newest dance piece for the…
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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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Norður Og Niður Festival Updates Schedule, Becomes Even Cooler
The Sigur rós love child the Norður og Niður art festival has already expanded way beyond your run of the mill music festival and it keeps just getting cooler and better. Today, the festival announced a plethora of new acts and events,…
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Life In Pictures: Iceland Dance Company
The Grapevine hopped over to The Iceland Dance Company for a behind-the-scenes look at “Fórn” (“Sacrifice”), a collection of new commanding creations exploring the relationship between art and religion.
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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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Embrace the Nonsense: ‘Da Da Dans’ By The Icelandic Dance Company
People describe Reykjavík as a “tightly knit” city, evoking the image of interweaving threads crossing paths, individuals joining to create a whole. But the deeper you weave into the culture, the more tangled things become. You find yourself in something less like a…
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Expect The Unexpected: Everybody’s Spectacular
Reykjavík Dance Festival and Lókal join forces to create the annual contemporary performance festival Everybody’s Spectacular. Artists from all around the world come together to share their work with local and international audiences. The schedule consists of talks, parties and performances such…
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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…