2025
2025 will be the second edition of Ð festival. In Reykjavik, the students hosted their works under a festival name Wait Untill the End to See Where the Finger Goes. In October, their works will travel to Oslo, Helsinki, and Tallinn under the Ð festival.
More information available soon!
Dansverkstæðið
Eesti Kultuurkapital
Sviðslistamiðstöð Íslands
Eckerö Line
VLND burger
GO Hotel Shnelli
Norway
12.08.2002
DIE TRYING
We just finished. Lying on the floor. Trying to remember what we just did. Getting ready to do it again. Is it the first time? Lying down again. Just a faint linger of a past. And why is a song the only thing we can remember? We don't know where we are going, but we know we can’t wait.
Performed by and created with Elida Angvik Hovdar, Elsa Kamøy Furuseth, Jaakko Fagerberg, María Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, and Leevi Mettinen.
Music by Eira Norang-Ekre
Finland
09.02.1999
Okay to Great
Constant self-monitoring and ideas of continuous improvement and development, combined with thoughts from romanticism, can certainly make a difference of some sort.
Thank you, all my dear friends, rakas Bára Ying Halldórsdóttir, Eero Pääkkönen, Äiti, Bertine Fadnes & Leevi Mettinen, Rósa Ómarsdóttir for mentoring, David Choe!
Norway
06.05.2002
Bitch Nation.
Bitches bitching and locks locking.
Thank you to my good friends and performers Bertine Bertelsen Fadnes and Rebekka Guðmundsdottir,
and my mentor Brian Douglas Gerke!
Iceland
09.04.2002
5-minute meditation for mindfulness
5-minute meditation for mindfulness is, in fact, not 5 minutes. It is, in fact, not a meditation, and Rebekka does not feel very mindful.
Thanks to the great coworkers of this piece - Inga María Olsen and Sóley Ólafsdóttir.
Sigþór Bjarmi Geirsson for music
and Brian Douglas Gerke for mentorship!
Norway
04.02.2002
Sucky Title
No, no, no… It’s such a bad piece. I don’t want to do it!! It’s too bad. Can I not???? The process was HORRIBLE, and the piece will be no better. PLEASE don’t come to my show!!!
Thank you, Rósa Ómarsdóttir, María Jóngerd, Stefán Nordal, Hanna Balsnes, and my wonderful class!
Iceland
22.09.2000
even a brick wants to be something
even a brick wants to be something, explores the desire to make anything mean something, relying on alternative tools from narrativity.
Almost everything is made up,
Almost everything is made up.
Even a brick wants to be something,
a brick wants to be something.
Originally performed and created by María Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, Inga María Olsen, Mari Ann Valkna & Gylfi Freeland Sigurðsson.
Drums composed and performed by Gylfi Freeland Sigurðsson.
At the Ð festival performed by María Kristín Jóhannsdóttir and Mari Ann Valkna.
Finland
02.04.1997
zero tolerance
zero tolerance is traveling through order and frustration, restriction takes new shapes, and kindness is long gone.
Created and performed together with Bertine Fadnes & Jaakko Fagerberg.
Thank you, Rósa Ómarsdóttir, for mentoring and commenting on the work in progress. Same goes to Katrín Gunnarsdóttir!
Iceland
04.10.2003
SYSTEMICS
Born into an unknown world where movement is the primal language, three beings emerge, bound by an invisible force – separate yet connected. They exist in a cycle of becoming – individuals and unity – questioning whether movement is an expression of agency or a function of a larger system. Movement is not a choice but a programmed response – operate within an inherent system of motion, learning through the body until movement becomes natural. As they navigate the space, their tangled bodies dissolve and reform, mirroring the constant patterns of nature and technology.
Thanks to my co-creators and original dancers Ása María Sigrúnardóttir, Íris Ásmundar, and Rebekka Guðmundsdóttir.
Takk Gabríel Ólafs for your beautiful music
and Sveinbjörg María Ingibjargardóttir for costume design.
Thank you, Brian Douglas Gerke, for mentorship.
Iceland
31.10.1998
DÍVUR
DÍVUR is a superficial dance piece about superficial pop stars. The divas are transcendent and untouchable. Imagination brings them to life, but reality keeps them alive.
Performed in Iceland and co-created by Torfi Tómasson, Bjartey Elín Hauksdóttir, and Sóley Ólafsdóttir.
Performed at the Ð festival by Torfi Tómasson, Bertine Bertelsen Fadnes, and Elsa Kamøy Furuseth.
Mentored by Brian Gerke.
Music by Torfi Tómasson.
Special thanks to Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Rósa Ómarsdóttir, Karin Jameson, Egill Ingibergsson, María Jóngerð Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sunna Ben, Rakel Tómasdóttir, Juulius Vaiksoo and Cristina Agueda.