Ð festival
13 oktober kl. 13.00-16.00
Olga Maggý Winther “Oh Kiss Me, You Flying Pig”
Creator and performer: Olga Maggý Winther
Assistant Choreographer: Rebekka Sól Þórarinsdóttir
Costume Designer: Freyr Guðjónsson
Music Supervisor: Valgerður Embla Grétarsdóttir
Photographers: Eyrún Haddý Högnadóttir & Torfi Þór Tryggvason
Graphic Designer: Valgerður Stefánsdóttir
Length: 30 min
Premiere: 02.03.2024, Reykjavik
Is this joyful or not?
Trigger Warning: Clowns
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!
Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir “Stimm”
The team: Eir Önnu Ólafsbur, Frida Adriana Martins, Jón Logi Pálma, Kristín Lilja Geirsdóttir, Lovorka
Batelka, Ólafía Bella Ólafsdóttir, Sigrún Ósk Stefánsdóttir, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir
Length: 25 minutes
Premiere: 01.03.2024, Reykjavik
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.
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.
Leevi Matias Rauhalahti “The Rise and Phall of Working out in a Dress”
Dancer, choreographer, text: Leevi Matias Rauhalahti
Producer of the 2nd song: Ville Kantonen
Length: 25-30 min
Premiere: 28.02.2024, Reykjavik
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.
Thanks: Juulius Vaiksoo, Christa Ropponen, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir, Olga Maggý Winther, Alice
Romberg, Sóley Dúfa Leósdóttir
Trigger warnings: Nudity, age recommendation 15+
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.
Alice Romberg “my house eats itself”
Choreographer and performer: Alice Romberg
Sound: Alice Romberg
Video: Olivia Due Pyszko, Alice Romberg
Length: 30 minutes
Premiere: 29.02.2024, Reykjavik
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
Alice Romberg is a dancer from Sweden who moved on to dancing after a theater and performance
education. She has danced at Kävesta folkhögskola and Iceland University of the Arts. In addition to
the pure enjoyment of moving one's body, her dancing and creating relates to existential questions
such as what is alive or human or thing.
Christa Ropponen “<3”
Choreographer and performer: Christa Ropponen
Length: 30 min
Premiere: 29.02.2024, Reykjavik
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.
Thanks: Rósa Ómarsdóttir, Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Léo Geens, my classmates in Listaháskóli Íslands
and ECD3 in Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK), lovers, friends, family and Sin
Sisters.
Warnings: Nudity, age recommendation 15+
Christa Ropponen is a dancer from Finland. Christa received her higher education in contemporary
dance from Iceland University of the Arts with an exchange semester at Amsterdam University of the
Arts.
Juulius Vaiksoo “Naturally”
Choreographer: Juulius Vaiksoo
Dancers: Juulius Vaiksoo and Leevi Rauhalahti
Length: 20-25 min
Premiere: 28.02.2024, Reykjavik
While watching, ask yourself, what is animal and what is human?
Thank you: Mari Ann Valkna, Torfi Tómasson, Rósa Ómarsdóttir.
Juulius Vaiksoo is a dancer and choreographer from Estonia, currently based in Iceland. Each of his
works find their way back to nature topics. Which is also important for him while creating a piece - to
be environment friendly on every step.