The Lost Ballerina is a collaboration between Icelandic dance artist and circus performer Katla Thor, Italian photographer Davide Bozzalla, and Irish dance artist and choreographer Laura Murphy. This site specific dance work, performed at The National Gallery of Iceland is based on a concept developed by Bozzalla and Thor in 2010. Inspired by the Icelandic landscape and dancer Katla Thor, Bozzalla created a series of photographs which became The Lost Ballerina. Beautifully portraying the vast yet lonely landscape of the highlands, the photographs capture Thor as a Huldukona – (know in Iceland as A Hidden
Person) or The Lost Ballerina. For the Reykjavík Dance Festival, the gallery will display a selection of The Lost Ballerina photos while Thor will perform live. This site-specific dance performance, co-created by Thor and Murphy, brings to life the story of The Lost Ballerina through imagery and movement.
Performance hours::
Thusday 8th of September 15:30 – 16:00
Satyrdat 10th of September 13:30 – 14:00 / 15:15 – 15:45
Location:
The National Gallery of Iceland
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Choreographers: Katla Thor and Laura Murphy
Photography: Davide Bozzalla
Music: Linda Buckley
Katla Thor is a dancer, choreographer and a circus acrobat from
Iceland and one of the founders of Darí Darí Dance Company. She
graduated with a master diploma, Dance in community from Trinity
Laban, London 2006. Since then she has been working with various
choreographers and dance/theatre/circus companies in Iceland, Italy,
Austria and Ireland. In the fall of 2010 Katla had a dance artist
residents in Friklin Crane, Cork, Ireland where she collaborated with
Folded Productions to create a new dance piece. Katla also received a
artist salary from the Icelandic government with her company to
recreate a very national creation based on Norse mythology that was
performed in Tjarnarbíó april 2011.
Laura is a contemporary dance artist working as a performer,
choreographer and teacher. Having trained at the Irish World Academy
for Music and Dance,(MA Contemporary Dance), and Trinity Laban,
London, (PDDS), she is currently specialising in choreological
studies. Her choreographic work has been performed internationally to
include USA, Canada, U.K and Sweden. As a collaborative dance artist,
Laura has performed and worked with Italian dance company DAS,
Iceland’s Dari Dari Dance Company, and performers such as Nigel Rolfe
and choreographer Mary Nunan. Laura is co-director of Folded
Productions with Ailish Claffey, and a tutor at the University of
Limerick.
Davide Bozzalla is an Italian photographer, based in Turin. Having
studied at Scuola Cicicata di Cinema, Milan, he graduated in 2006 with
an MA in Film Direction. Traveling extensively, Bozzalla’s work
focuses on portraits of men and woman in their natural environments.
His documentary work includes various projects from Ethiopia, Senegal,
Haiti, Myanmar and Greeland.
Bozzalla’s work has been published in the global edition of The
National Geographic while also winning two awards from The National
Geographic, Italy. His photography continues to frequent many renowned
magazines and newspapers in Italy.
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