| Summary: | "Dear guests A dancer's graduation performance is a rite of passage, concluding the time together as students while entering the professional community as dance artists. In this double-bill performance, we follow ten graduating students of Contemporary Dance Practices as they grapple with endings and beginnings, challenging the here and now, rising and falling to the beat with their hearts in hand. They invite us to witness apocalyptic, intricate landscapes with their raw and energetic movement material, as rebels, poets, occultists, fighters, wanderers. During their three-year BA education at the Iceland University of the Arts, these emerging artists have shown bravery, dedication and resilience. I welcome you to celebrate their unique artistry and dedication to their craft as they dance - igniting a fire within their hearts and ours." Katrín Gunnarsdóttir Associate Professor and Programme Director --- Graduating students: Alice Romberg, Christa Ropponen, Cristina Ísabel Agueda, Juulius Vaiksoo, Lea Alexandra Gunnarsdóttir, Leevi Matias Rauhalahti, Olga Maggý Winther, Olivia Teresa Due Pyszko, Sara Lind Guðnadóttir, Vigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir. --- DON’T LET ME DOWN "Our origins start before we can remember, so inevitably we have to take someone's word for how things began. And though we prize a sense of choice and causality, we are actually untethered, flailing around in space. Pushing against nothing, just to feel our bodies burn. And so we are drifting along in the current of something we don't understand (and the truth is we don't need to understand anything to appreciate life). a bit of joy, some pain, and the sheer fucking luck of being here at all." Choreographers: VIM VIGOR / Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli Choreographic collaborator: Katherine Kiessling Costumes: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir & Kristrún Rut Antonsdóttir Lighting: Ólafur Ágúst Stefánsson Text: Shannon Gillen Original Score: Marshall Chadbourne with excerpts from Orville Peck's 'Fancy' and an interview of Ruby Baker, an eighty-six ...
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