D festivaali

Työryhmä

The freshly graduated class of contemporary dance students from Iceland University of the Arts (BA in Contemporary Dance Practices) brings their graduation works from the island to the continent with their project Ð festival. Six new 30-minute dance works consisting of solo and duo performances compile an event that travels through the home cities of the foreign students of the class, connecting them back to their roots and strengthening the bond between different dance scenes.

The Ð festival invites audiences of all kinds to enjoy the performances. Every venue is encountered with subtlety, and performances are curated specifically for each location. We hope to engage in dialogue with the local audiences about the importance of contemporary dance in their context, andwhat a freshly graduated dancer can bring back home.

Olga Maggý Winther: Oh Kiss Me, You Flying Pig

Is this joyful or not?

Trigger warning: clowns

Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir: Stimm

I am autistic. You might not have thought so, but I still am. In spring of 2024 I got together with 7 other autistic people to make a performance. The result was a performance about stimming and hours worth of recordings of the process. This time around I am alone on the stage, continuing my exploration of stimming and looking back at the process. I am very happy to invite you to this performance but you might just have to put in a little work. So if you don’t know what stimming is I suggest you go find out.

Throughout the performance you are free to change positions or exit at any time. Earplugs and ear protectors will be provided. The language of the performance is Icelandic and English.

Leevi Matias Rauhalahti: The Rise and Phall of Working out in a Dress

Working towards, working out, working within & against. A genderqueer identity in its inevitable vessel, the body, searching for shapes. Shapes that would alleviate the coming-across-as-something through elevating it to a state of coming across as the secret third thing. Researching the ways our bodies take shape in gendered manners, the piece reaches towards representation outside of the gender binary. The fundamentally queer combination of labor and identity creation is highlighted through staging a struggling, enjoying, and autonomic body, in search of the not-yet-here.

Content warning: nudity.
Age recommandation 15 +

Alice Romberg: my house eats itself

A piece about what you think is your home and who lives there. A couch. A cat. A shirt. A you. A house. A bug. Images and places once known that were once created as known and once were created to be exactly in the place that you and they are in right now now now. They and who are they and they wonder who are you if they wonder at all if I wonder at all.

Trigger warning: Low light setting

Christa Ropponen: <3

Is a dance performance & research about (self)-love, empowerment, pleasures and dreams. So come to see me falling (in love) with my pleaser heels and myself, when you are watching me watching you watching me. I love my love and my time, and now I’ll share some of it with you. I’m so loved, lovely, loving and babe. Maybe all we need is love, especially self-love.

Content warnings: nudity
Age recommendation 15 +

Juulius Vaiksoo: Naturally

While watching, ask yourself, what is animal and what is human?

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Oh Kiss Me, You Flying Pig

Choreography, performer: Olga Maggý Winther
Assistant choreographer: Rebekka Sól Þórarinsdóttir
Costume design: Freyr Guðjónsson
Music: Valgerður Embla Grétarsdóttir
Photo: Eyrún Haddý Högnadóttir & Torfi Þór Tryggvason
Graphic design: Valgerður Stefánsdóttir
Duration: 30 min
Premiere: 02.03.2024, Reykjavik

Olga Maggý Winther has a BA degree in contemporary dance practices, she is also very involved in film both on screen and off screen. She often works with big groups in both her live performance-/ and film-based pieces, she likes to play with gender and sexuality and the stereotypes that follow that. Chaos and order in a mix are the aesthetics that she thoroughly enjoys, and she also owns a horse. Her favorite thing to do on stage or on screen is to play big characters!

Stimm

Working group: Eir Önnu Ólafsbur, Frida Adriana Martins, Jón Logi Pálma, Kristín Lilja Geirsdóttir, Lovorka Batelka, Ólafía Bella Ólafsdóttir, Sigrún Ósk Stefánsdóttir, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir
Duration: 25 min
Premiere: 01.03.2024, Reykjavik

Vigdís Birna is a dance artist from Reykjavik, Iceland. Their most recent curiosities include the autonomy of nature and objects, their own autism and the notions of technique and aesthetics in dance. Their current working methods come from a hope for accessibility, multiplicity, sincerity and playfulness in their work.

The Rise and Phall of Working out in a Dress

Dance, choreography, text: Leevi Matias Rauhalahti
Producer of the second song: Ville Kantonen
Duration: 25-30 min
Premiere: 28.02.2024, Reykjavik

Thank you: Juulius Vaiksoo, Christa Ropponen, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir, Olga Maggý Winther, Alice Romberg, Sóley Dúfa Leósdóttir

Leevi Matias Rauhalahti is a Finnish dancer and performer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. In their practice, Leevi works with a strong physical presence in combination with genderqueerness. Insisting on the body as a storyteller Leevi plays with producing alternative futures, that search for the queer seed in the past, plants it in the current moment, to bloom and provide further seeds in the future.