2024
Ð festival was conceived and produced by Juulius Vaiksoo, a student of the graduating class of 2024, and took place for the first time that same year. 6 dancers out of the 10 from the graduating class took part in the festival that year. Here you can get to know the other dancers from the class that did not manage to take part of the festival tour: Cristina Ísabel Agueda (IS/HU/ES), Sara Lind Guðnadóttir (IS), Lea Alexandra Gunnarsdóttir (IS), and Olivia Teresa Due Pyszko (DK).
The first evening of performances was October 5th in Tallinn, Estonia where Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL) hosted the graduates at a festival called Sõltumatu Tantsu Festival. From there the performances travelled to Finland, first to Lohja and then to Tampere where Tanssiteatteri MD hosted the graduates. In Tampere the graduates also met students of the Tampere Arts-Oriented Senior Secondary School, gave them workshops and hosted Q&As. The last destination of that year was at Karlskrona, Sweden where Dans i Blekinge hosted the tour.
In total, Ð festival met an estimated 200 people on the way.
Dansverkstæðið
Eesti Kultuurkapital
Sviðslistamiðstöð Íslands
Kahvila Liisa
OMAklubi
Tantsija Jõuruum
VLND burger
Aito Fresh
Bistro Olea
Fika - leib & kohv
- Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir
- Reykjavík, Iceland
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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.
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
- Leevi Matias Rauhalahti
- Kangasala, Finland
- 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.
Dancer, choreographer, text:
Leevi Matias Rauhalahti
Producer of the 2nd song:
Ville Kantonen
Thanks: Juulius Vaiksoo, Christa Ropponen, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir, Olga Maggý Winther, Alice Romberg, Sóley Dúfa Leósdóttir
- Alice Romberg
17.03.1999
- 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.
Choreographer: Alice Romberg
Performer at Ð festival : Alice Romberg
Original performers: Bertine Bertelsen Fadnes, Leevi Mettinen, María Kristín Jóhannsdóttir
Sound: Alice Romberg
Lohja, Finland
16.09.1998
<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.
Choreographer & performer: Christa Ropponen
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.
- Lohja, Finland
Tallinn, Estonia
21.04.2002
Naturally
While watching, ask yourself, what is animal and what is human?
Choreographer: Juulius Vaiksoo
Dancers: Juulius Vaiksoo and Leevi Rauhalahti or Olga Maggý Winther
Thanks: Mari Ann Valkna, Torfi Tómasson, Rósa Omarsdóttir
- Olga Maggý Winther
Reykjavík, Iceland
20.02.2002
- Oh kiss me, you flying pig!
Is this joyful or not?
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