FormationCamping

Erna Ómarsdóttir
& Halla Ólafsdóttir

Camping Workshop

24 > 28.06.19

CN D Lyon

Erna Ómarsdóttir was born in Reykjavik (Iceland) and graduated from P.A.R.T.S. As a performer, she has worked with ballet companies such as C de la B, Jan Fabre and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. She is artistic director of the Iceland Dance Company which premiered SACRIFICE in 2017, including Shrine by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson, and Dies Irae (with Gabriela Friðriksdóttir), Union of the North (feature film made in collaboration with Matthew Barney) and No Tomorrow by Ragnar Kjartansson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir and Bryce Dessner. In 2018 for Camping, she presented IBM 1401 – A User’s Manual at CN D (Pantin).
Halla Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic artist, dancer and choreographer living and working in Stockholm. She is a graduate from DOCH. Her piece Beauty and the Beast, together with Amanda Apetrea, won the Prix Jardin d’Europe Awards at ImpulsTanz in 2013. She cocurated the Reykjavík Dance Festival (2012), she was part of the collective project with the band the Knife, during the Shaking the Habitual tour (2013-2015) and she played the lead role in the feature film Under Influence by Sidney Leoni (2015),

During the workshop Erna Ómarsdóttir and Halla Ólafsdóttir propose to explore and develop the practices and ideas that were created in the making of the performance Romeo and Juliet, performance which merges contemporary dance, visual art and Prokofiev’s music, which deconstructs the original story into a web of simultaneous narratives, mingling references from popular culture with the language of ballet. This includes ballet exorcism, screaming, reading together, snake dancing and some serious headbanging!