Iceland Dance Company returns with the award winning show BLÆÐI: obsidian pieces. A unique evening of dance, staging the works of Erna Ómarsdóttir, Damien Jalet and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The show premiered in May at the 29th Reykjavik Arts Festival and received raving reviews from both critics and the general public. Because of high demand BLÆÐI: obsidian pieces returns as a part of Lókal/RDF 2015

The past few years dancers / choreographers Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek created a vivacious trilogy with the duets Kein Applaus für Scheisse (2010) and Spirit (2012), and the group performance Wellness (2013). After a few digressions (they f.i. both made a performance separately), they create a new duet together: Schönheitsabend.

Since before he even could read Snæbjörn wanted to become a writer but then he married Ragnheiður who is absolutely convinced he is actually a dancer stuck in a writer´s body. Or maybe a choreograph even.

It’s all in how we see the world.

And how we move forward.

Cranes become dancers.

A monument of delicate strength.

Turning thirteen - everything changed. We got teenage, we got problems, we got loved, and then we got loved again by someone else. We got to know things about things that you’ll never know, because we’re teenage girls and that’s not something just anyone can say. Because it’s only us that can be teenage girls, and only us that know what that means.

In order to be strategic we have to know the game. We start to move and the music begins to play. When the wave hits you, each of you in your own account, it bounces back and at this very moment produces a new sound. We engage in a collective activity with personal intentions. It seems like no one in this room is responsible for anyone else, yet we can’t do it alone.

In the winter of 2012, two famous American performance artists sat in anonymous hotel rooms on the West Coast, waiting to take the stage, and in a bizarre coincidence, over-dosed on the anxiety drug Xanax. One survived, one did not. The two individuals are Whitney Houston, who tragically died, and the author of this piece, who lived.

,, There are 25 years since I was born in 1988.  There are 35 years since the revolution, when Iran became an Islamic state. There are 35 years since women are obliged to wear hijab, since censorship was brought on, since freedom was restricted. There are 35 years since everything changed. And even though things were bad before , they got even worse’’.

Macho man is a solo creation for the dance artist Saga Sigurðardóttir. It is inspired by how the masculine body is choreographed in society. A female perfomer executing masculine vocabulary creates resonance between two bodies on stage, the body of the performer and the body of the choreography itself.

In Greek Mythology Atlas was the one condemned to stand with the
Earth and Heavens on his shoulders. to turn the theater back into a political space. 100 people on stage.
A landscape of people with different kind of professions, claiming their position on society, individually as well as in group, mapping a sort of 'atlas' of the complex cohesion of a social tissue.
A quiet revolution. A work motivated by the belief that art should play an active role in society. Uniting art and life.

Giselle is hemmed by darkness and has an almost apocalyptic wildness where we witness the unravelling and morphing of various characters from the world of ballet. We are confronted with the hierarchies within the language of ballet: it’s technique and pantomime, the distortion of the narrative through score making, the blurring of the roles between male and female, prima ballerinas and corps de ballet. Where princes turn into trees that turn into eagles that turn into farmers that turn into Wilis that turn you inside out.

Margrét Bjarnadóttir will open Reykjavík Dance Festival this August.