Reykjavík Grapevine - 10.03.2017, Qupperneq 29

about us taking power.’ They know
now that they can talk together on
stage, they can look at each other,
they can communicate. It’s really
about listening to each other. It’s re-
ally about the listening, in the end,
and not about the others that are
watching.”
By having the
girls foc us on
each other dur-
ing the perfor-
mances rather
than on the au-
dience’s percep-
tion, the girls are
able to sidestep
the perfection-
ism of the dance
world. “I think for kids and teenag-
ers there’s this thing where there’s
no room for mistakes, there’s
always this pressure for perfec-
tion,” says Ásrún. “Often when
you’re doing a dance piece you’re
performing for someone else and
everything needs to be perfect, es-
pecially if you have a dance history
in your body, then you’re maybe
stressed about this. This piece is
completely the opposite, and they
get that.”
Rearview mirror
Ásrún herself, now a young moth-
er, gets to channel her nostalgia
and have a second adolescence
through their youthful wisdom.
“They’re so aware. They’re so
smart. They’re much smarter and
much more aware than I was at
their age. It’s so intimidating!” she
laughs. “I missed being a teenager,
and I wondered if it was differ-
ent for them now. I was just a re-
ally normal teenager but the other
day I found my old diaries and they
were more brutal
than I would have
imagined. I was
like: ‘Wow, I was
so dramatic!’”
A lthough she
c on s i d er s t h e
you n g wom en
s h e h a s b e e n
w o r k i n g w it h
for the past two
years wiser than she was, the
element of drama and the soft
trauma that are the teenage years
always figure strongly. Pieces are
dedicated to former “lovers”—a
grand term to use at the most tender
of ages—and also to best friends, and
to mothers—a deeply complex rela-
tionship for most girls at some point.
The strongest reactions to
the show have come from young
girls and mothers, but the great-
est victory Ásrún feels is the fact
that the show has reached far
beyond the dance community.
She hopes this marks a growing
interest in dance, and an oppor-
tunity to continue into the fu-
ture by also working with boys.
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Culture Feature 29The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 03 — 2017
“Often when you’re
doing a dance piece
everything needs
to be perfect. This
piece is completely
the opposite.”
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