PIECE NO. 1

Dance
Borgarleikhúsið, Reykjavík, November 2018
Costume Designer

Piece no. 1 is an excessive organized expression. Chaotically controlled and sensually nonsensical. Distant, detached, yet right up in your face. There is one, two, three, and many. Each and every one unique within the unity. Connection and confrontation. Structure and strength, softness and sensitivity. Destruction and deviation. There is diving and digging, deeper and deeper, expanding space within space for movement of bodies, minds, and emotions. Vibration. Intention. Attention. Always but never delicate and detailed. 

Piece no. 1 is one expression of a dance piece made at this point in time and space. It has infinite perspectives, inside and outside. It is the first in a series of pieces emerging from the research project EXPRESSIONS: the power and politics of expectations in dance where we continuously search for the other dance, another dance, our dance.  

Choreographer: Steinunn Ketilsdóttir
Music: Áskell Harðarson
Costumes: Alexía Rós Gylfadóttir
Light design: Björn Bergsteinn Guðmundsson

Photos: Jónatan Grétarsson for Íslenski Dansflokkurinn - Iceland Dance Company
Editing & filming: Steve Lorenz