Reykjavík Grapevine - 28.08.2015, Qupperneq 43

MUSIC
CONCERTS & NIGHTLIFE
Reykjavík Art Museum:
Hafnarhús
18:00 'An Eternal Piece On
Relativity' L/RDF
Slippbarinn
22:00 DJ Sir Danselot
Tjarnarbíó
19:00 'Tell Me Love Is Real' L/RDF
Tunglið
22:15 'An Eternal Piece On
Relativity' L/RDF
Saturday August 29
Bar 11
22:30 Verksmiðjan
Bar Ananas
22:00 DJ Óli Dóri
Boston
22:00 DJ Pilsner 2.25%
Café Rosenberg
Melodica Festival
21:30 Lori Kelley
22:10 Meadows Ever Bleeding
23:00 Ava
23:50 Charlie Rauh
00:30 Hemúllinn
Dillon
22:00 Casio Fatso / Rythmatik
Dubliner
22:00 Troubadour Garðar
English Pub
21:00 Troubadours Biggi & Ingunn /
Magnús & Ívar
Gamla Bíó
15:00 'Grrrrrrls' L/RDF
19:00 'Grrrrrrls' L/RDF
Grótta
17:00 'Choreography Of Cranes' L/RDF
21:00 'Choreography Of Cranes' L/RDF
Harpa
14:00 Baldursbrá opera
Húrra
22:00 DJ Ívar Pétur
Iceland Academy of the Arts
18:00 'A Series Of Novels Never
Written' L/RDF
Kaffibarinn
22:00 Reykjavík! / Börn / Lommi
/ Bent / Arnljótur
Sigurðsson
Kex Hostel
21:00 Retro Stefson
Loft Hostel
Melodica Festival
16:00 Eggert Einer Nielson
16:40 Rebekka Sif
17:20 Sveinn Guðmundsson
18:00 Mantra
18:40 Helgi Valur
19:20 Torben Stock
20:00 Hello Piedpiper
20:40 Poems for Jamiro
Mengi
21:00 Áki Ásgeirsson
Prikið
21:00 DJ King Kocoon
Slippbarinn
22:00 DJ Sir Danselot
Tjarnarbíó
13:00 'Landline: Reykjavík to
Edinburg' L/RDF
17:00 'Firsts: Prowess' L/RDF
21:00 'Schönheitsabend' L/RDF
Tunglið
22:15 'An Eternal Piece On
Relativity' L/RDF
Sunday August 30
Borgarleikhúsið
17:00 'An Eternal Piece On War And
Peace' L/RDF
18:00 'An Eternal Piece On The Art Of
Manipulation' L/RDF
21:00 'An Eternal Piece On Love And
The Lack Of It' L/RDF
English Pub
21:00 Troubadour Danni
Gamla Bíó
15:00 AmabAdamA
20:00 Rocky Dawuni /
AmabAdamA
Harpa
14:00 Baldursbrá opera
Hressó
21:00 Jazz Jam Session
Kaffibarinn
22:00 Krystal Carma DJ Set
WAR
IS
OVER!
IF YOU WANT IT
Happy Christmas from John & Yoko
(and The Laundromat Cafe)
YES, IT IS TRUE!
‘A Series Of Novels Never Written’
by Ragnheiður Sigurðardóttir
Bjarnason & Snæbjörn Brynjarsson
In this dance piece, writer Snæbjörn
translates his unwritten novel into
a dance piece with help from his
choreographer wife Ragnheiður.
‘An Eternal Piece On Love And The
Lack Of It’ by The Professional
Amateurs
This performance's script is based on
submitted letters dealing with love in
life, expectations, disappointment, heat
and cold, the beginning and the end.
‘An Eternal Piece On Relativity’ by
The Professional Amateurs
This performance explores the topic of
language, how visual/spatial elements
affect it, and how human beings are
victims of their own nature.
‘An Eternal Piece On The Art Of
Manipulation’ by The Professional
Amateurs
The piece is an investigation into
human nature. It is a template on the
art of manipulation. It questions power
structures and it questions the driving
force of human society.
‘An Eternal Piece On War And
Peace’ by The Professional
Amateurs
This piece is an exploration of the dark
side of human nature, following the
journey of two children as they go from
innocence to guilt, trust to fear, from
cosmos to chaos.
‘Blæði: Obsidian Pieces’
This breath-taking award-winning
dance performance helmed by GV
coverstar Erna Ómarsdóttir returns to
Reykjavík. Comprising three parts, it
features original music from Ben Frost.
‘Choreography Of Cranes’ by
Ragnheiður Harpa Leifsdóttir
This short performance seeks to bring
forth the invisible choreographies of
the everyday, expanding the notion of
what dance is.
‘Firsts: Bríet’ by Anna Kolfinna
Kuran
This dance piece is a tribute
to Icelandic suffragette Bríet
Bjarnhéðinsdóttir—it honours both her
battle for women's rights a century
ago, and her personal life.
‘Firsts: Prowess’ by Björn Leó
Brynjarsson
This experimental piece marries dance
and text narrative, and focuses on an
artist's desire for success in modern
society, and his struggle with his own
ego.
‘Grrrrrrls’ by Ásrún Magnúsdóttir
This dance piece tackles the
difficulties of the teen years, and is
performed by adolescent girls.
‘Landline: Reykjavík to Edinburgh’
by Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey
(Ottawa/Halifax)
This experimental piece takes place
simultaneously both in Reykjavík and
Edinburgh, and sees the audience
become both voyeur and accomplice
through the use of smartphones in an
audio-guided tour of both cities.
‘Nazanin - documentary theatre’ by
Marta Nordal
Nazanin Askari is a political
refugee who fled from Iran after the
presidential election in 2009 and
ended up in Iceland. Six years later,
she’s telling her story on stage.
‘Schönheitsabend’ by Florentina
Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek
(Ghent)
This duet dance piece is inspired by
the 1910 ballet 'Shéhérazade' and
subsequent attempts at reinventing
dance through exotic fiction.
‘Splendour’ by Stina Nyberg
Splendour is a choreography
performance that focuses on the
body’s relationship to sound and how
illusions of different causalities are
created through actions and reactions,
dancing through techno album
'Archive One' by Dave Clarke from
beginning to end.
‘Tell Me Love Is Real’ by Zachary
Oberzan (New York)
This performance ponders the
existential questions that arose
for the author during the arduous
recovery journey he went through after
accidentally overdosing on Xanax and
being incarcerated in a psychiatric
ward.
- GABRÍEL BENJAMIN
Lókal / Reykjavík Dance Festival
August 24-30
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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 13 — 2015
Two of Reykjavík’s more prominent art festivals, Lókal and
Reykjavík Dance Festival, have teamed up to make one
VOLTRON-style MEGAFEST. Find the dates and times of the
following events on this spread and the following page marked
with L/RDF.