The full program for Reykjavík December 12th -16th 2018 will be announced in summer 2018.
You can start your experience by taking part in our pre-trip December 11th – 12th which you can check out here!
ICE HOT REYKJAVIK starts with a blast on Wednesday evening December 12th at Reykjavik City Theatre. A whole evening of Iceland Dance Company ´s celebrated SACRIFICE, a collection of commanding creations exploring the relationship between art and religion.
SACRIFICE is produced by Iceland Dance Company in co-operation with Reykjavík City Theatre and LÓKAL Performing Arts Reykjavík and performed by ICELAND DANCE COMPANY.
Inspired by the idea of the ritual as an essential part of life, SACRIFICE is a festival of dance, art, and music where audiences move from one space to the next, experiencing a different ritual in each place.
One of the ritual works, NO TOMORROW, was chosen Production of the year at the 2017 Icelandic Performing Arts Awards as well as receiving the price for choreographers of the year.
Shrine by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson, where creative forces are put to the test in a ritual celebrating both life and death.
Union of the North,created by renowned American visual artist Matthew Barney, the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir and musician Valdimar Jóhannsson, a performative video installation, attempting to fuse together consumerism and the spiritual in an act of marriage.
Finally, the festivities reach an immersive peak at the already bustling Market, where people present their beliefs, ideas and solutions for a sustainable future.
Since its premiere in March 2017 this unique festival event has toured to Germany, Belgium, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway and England and plans are for further presentations.
SACRIFICE is co-produced by Shalala, Spring Festival in Utrecht, Kunstcentrum BUDA in Kortrijk, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf and Reykjavík Dance Festival (apap).
Sacrifice proved to be much more than a breath-taking sacrifice. Commerce is our contemporary religion, consumption our ritual. Manic yet refreshing show that is truly a success.
Icelandic choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson put together an evening full of sacrificial rituals for the individual who, in their opinion, would like to believe even though God is long dead. […] Sacrifice passes through each sacrificial ritual after another, examining them from the perspective of today, giving them a new form and context in the stylized holy everyday life and glorified beauty, health culture, and the shallowness of the consumer society.
[…] the many roles and registers the troupe was capable of combining was striking. Fusing dance, sport, sound, music, sculpture and spoken word this was a peculiar and penetrative contemporary vaudeville.
K.G, DV, about the piece No tomorrow.
Office address: ICE HOT Reykjavik c/o Dance Atelier, Hjarðarhagi 47, 107 Reykjavík.
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