2018
Atomstar by Jóní Jónsdóttir, Steinunn Ketilsdóttir and Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir premiered at Reykjavik Art Festival 2018. The work is a hybrid dance and visual art work, a guide and exploration of the human being. It is dissected, torn apart, cut into pieces and sewn back together in alternative ways. Examined in a wider context, ranging from its roots in the ground up to the mind, sky and space.
What is a human being? What are we made of? Are we all made from the same matter? Where is the source, the atomic fusion, and where do we end? Where is the border of the body and how far does it reach? Does it merge with other bodies and form one big body? The body of nature, world, and the universe?
In the hybrid dance and visual art work, Atomstar, these questions guide an exploration of the human being. It is dissected, torn apart, cut into pieces and sewn back together in alternative ways. Examined in a wider context, ranging from its roots in the ground up to the mind, sky and space.
The work sheds a light on the multiplicity of the human being and the dimensions, facets, forms and dreams it contains.
Atomstar is an artwork in which the body and movement are at the centre in dance installations, performances, videos, and sound that together take form in a multidisciplinary experience in the newly renovated Ásmundarsalur, intertwining the building’s unique history and atmosphere.
Creators: Jóní Jónsdóttir, Steinunn Ketilsdóttir and Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir
Visuals: Eva Signý Berger and creators
Sound design: Áskell Harðarson
Film: Freyr Árnason, Baldvin Vernharðsson and Pétur Már Pétursson
Artists / performance: Anna Kolfinna Kuran, Díana Kristinsdóttir, Erla Rut Mathiesen, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Saga Sigurðardóttir, Sigurður Andrean Sigurgeirsson, Védís Kjartansdóttir, Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir
Production manager: Erla Rut Matthiesen
Photographer: Owen Fiene
Performance took place in June 2018 in collaboration with Reykjavik Art Festival and Ásmundarsalur.
Sponsored by Reykjavík City, The Icelandic Arts Council and The Artists Salary Fund.
2018
DEMONCRAZY - Drosophila by Borghildur Indriðiadóttir, part of Reykjavik Art Festival 2018.
Performance premiere date: 3rd June 2018 at 6 pm
Performance premiere location: started from the Icelandic Parliament on Austurvöllur square & ended at the Reykjavík Art Museum Hafnarhús.
Concept/Direction: Borghildur Indriðadóttir
Performers (in alphabetical order): Anna Kolfinna Kuran, Brynja Sigurðardóttir, Bára Bryndís Viggósdóttir, David Ducobu, Durgham Al Hassani, Elias Andri Andrason, Elín Lára Baldursdóttir, Elín Signý Ragnarsdóttir, Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir, Elísabet Huld Þorbergsdóttir, Glódís Guðgeirsdóttir, Hólmfríður Guðmundsdóttir, Hulda Ragnhildur Hjálmarsdóttir, Ingigerður Bjarndís Írisar Ágústsdóttir, Ívar Ölmu Hlynsson, Kolka Heimisdóttir, Laufey Ösp Kristinsdóttir, María Lind Baldursdóttir, Nanna Hermannsdóttir, Silja Björk Björnsdóttir, Stella Briem Friðriksdóttir, Tinna Haraldsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson
Production Assistants: Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Tinna Hemstock
Performance Coordinator: Nanna Hermannsdóttir
Makeup: Alexander Sigurður Sigfússon
Styling Assistant: Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir
Video Editing: Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir
Sound production: Herdís Stefánsdóttir
Camera: Gríma Irmudóttir
Photography: Berglaug Petra Garðarsdóttir, Leifur Wilberg Orrason
Special thanks: Annabelle von Girsewald, Dr Eiríkur Steingrímsson
Music video to “Broken Glass” a song by East of my Youth.
Director & Editor: Ugla Hauksdóttir
Producer: Lilja Baldursdóttir
Cinematographer & Colorist: Markus Englmair
Choreography: Tiffany Ogburn
Styling: Helga Jóakimsdóttir
1st Assistant Camera: Erlendur Sveinsson
Dancers: Anna Kolfinna Kuran, Hannah Fonder, Isadora Elmira, Malin Barr and Tiffany Ogburn
2013
By Margrét Bjarnadóttir and Saga Sigurðardóttir, in collaboration with
the graduating students at the Dance department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2013.
A room full of mattresses, nine females, a drummer and a drum kit. A pile of leftover objects which are brought to life. The mattresses become a springboard for the dancers´ impulses. The piece is about a leap into the void. It is highly energetic, driven by playfulness, wild joy and humour. And guts. Original music score by Icelandic electronic/acoustic duo Good Moon Deer.
Set and costumes: Eva Signý Berger
Music and sound: Good Moon Deer (Guðmundur Úlfarsson and Ívar Pétur Kjartansson)
Performers:
Anna Kolfinna Kuran
Arna SIf Gunnarsdóttir
Arndís Benediktsdóttir
Berglind Ýr Karlsdóttir
Birkir Benediktsson
Elín Signý W. Ragnarsdóttir
Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir
Gígja Jónsdóttir
Guðrún Selma Sigurjónsdóttir
Halla Þórðardóttir
Ívar Pétur Kjartansson
