Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
wpZimmer resident in 2019
Katrín Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic choreographer and dancer based in Reykjavík. Katrín studied dance at Iceland Academy of the Arts and choreography at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, graduating in 2008. She received a DanceWEB scholarship in 2007 at the Impulstanz festival in Vienna. She has created Saving History (2014), Macho Man (2015), Shades of History (2016), for which she received the Icelandic Theatre Awards as ‘dancer of the year’ in 2017, and a collaboration with the National Theatre of Iceland called KVIKA (2016). Her work has been presented at numerous venues and festivals in Iceland and Europe. As a dancer and performer, Katrín has worked with Saga Sigurðardóttir, Erna Ómarsdóttir & Shalala, Kris Verdonck, Sander Breure and Witte Van Hulzen among others. She is also a member of the collective Marble Crowd.
projects
Crescendo
Crescendo, not as a climax, but as a quiet wave. A quiet passing through a trio of bodies, conjoined by an ever mutating flow of movements, song and listening.
This triple headed, triple voiced, triple bodied solo, creates a space of great tenderness, care and attention, in which three can attempt to become one.
With this new dance work, Crescendo, Icelandic choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir draws upon the history of women’s collective physical labour and in particular its relation to repetitive motions and song, to generate a situation of intimate female assembly, convergence and coalescence.
credits
Concept & choreography: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Performance: Heba Eir Kjeld, Védís Kjartansdóttir and Snædís Lilja Ingadóttir
Costumes & scenography: Eva Signý Berger
Sound design: Baldvin Magnússon
Light design: Magnús Arnar Sigurðarson
Dramaturgy: Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G Gunnarsdóttir
Production: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir/Nudge
Co-production: Reykjavík Dance Festival, Tjarnarbíó Theatre
With the support of wpZimmer, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Dansearena Nord, Dance Atelier Reykjavík, Bora Bora Arhus
Funded by the Iceland Ministry of Education and Culture