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Belinda and Goddess
are dramatic, elegant and complicated creatures.
Fair features, fleshy, fuzzy and shiny.
They are wild with sinuous limbs and long necks.
Well behaved but unpredictable, wary and intellegent.
Conciderate, caring and erotic.
They are healthy, fertile and fun loving goddesses.
Performance hours:
Friday 9th of September 20:30 – 22:00
Saturday 10th of September 20:30 – 22:00
The piece will be performed in a double bill with the Rite of Spring
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Choreographers: Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir and Steinunn Ketilsdóttir
Music: Andrea Gylfadóttir
Costumes: Jóní Jónsdóttir
Steinunn Ketilsdóttir graduated in 2005 with honors from Hunter College in NY with a BA in dance. For the past years Steinunn and her dancing friend Brian Gerke (Steinunn and Brian) have been collaborating, creating four duets and were commissioned to do a quartet for the Iceland Dance Company. The pair has won awards for their work and been nominated for the Icelandic Theater Awards. Their work has been seen around Europe and in New York.
Steinunn‘s work has been presented at Movement Research at the Judson Church and Dixon Place NY. She has danced for choreographer‘s Barbara Mahler, Jessica Winograd and Juliette Mapp. She is a board member of the Reykjavík Dance Atelier and on the team for Reykjavík Dance Festival. Steinunn was awarded the Icelandic Theater Awards for performance of the year and choreography of the year in 2010 for her solowork “Superhero”. Steinunn has a love/hate relationship with dance but wants to keep on doing dance stuff until she gets old and wrinkled. She doesn‘t love to read books but does enjoy going on long walks in the wild Icelandic nature and soaking in the hot tubs at one of Reykjavík‘s fabulous pool‘s.
Sveinbjörg Thorhallsdóttir graduated as a dancer from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1995. Since then she has worked professionally as a dancer and a choreographer in dance and theatre productions in all theatres in Reykjavík. Alongside she has worked as a teacher and workshop leader for many years and was the head of the Modern Department of the Icelandic Ballet School for years. Sveinbjörg was one of the founders of Reykjavík Dance Festival 2002. In 2004 Sveinbjörg founded the performance production house Panic Productions alongside Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir in Reykjavik, Iceland. Together they have done three collaborations; Palliettudula (2004), no, he was white (2005) with Anne Tismer and Rahel Savoldelli (www.gutestun.com) and Private Dancer with Jared Gradinger which was premiered 2008 in the Reykjavik City Theatre. Sveinbjörg graduated with Masters Degree in Choreography from Tilburg University, Holland 2008.
Links: www.panicproductions.is and www.wix.com/steinunnandbrian/steinunnandbrian
