Nearing summer solstice, when the day is the longest, Iceland Dance Company premieres Variations of Darkness. The Company has been introducing a series of works, inspired by darkness and the vulnerability of the human body. This is the third piece and is specially created for the bright space at Reykjavik Art Museum (Hafnarhús).

All the work is performed to music by Sigur Rós and under the artistic direction of Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson, created in collaboration with the dancers.

The first piece in the series At Dusk, We Embrace was premiered during winter solstice 2017, at Norður og niður at Harpa concert hall. The video installation Life in the Undergrowth in collaboration with Pierre-Alain Giraud, premiered at the opening of the Winter Lights Festival in Reykjavík, in February 2018 and was projected on two large oil tanks near the Marshall house. The fourth and final work will premiere at Everybody’s Spectacular in November 2018.The darkness is warm and embracing. A place where you can sleep tight and journey to dreamland or return back to your mother’s womb. Be vulnerable. But darkness is also frightening, a kingdom of nightmares and loneliness, the domain of hungry ghosts who wander in search for relieve and satisfaction. Continuously searching for the light that casts a shadow on others, they will never satisfy their hunger, but be stuck in roaring emptiness; a tempest they have us battling forevermore. 

The Best of Darkness is the fourth and final piece in a series of work, inspired by darkness and the vulnerability of the human body. The first piece in the series At Dusk, We Embrace was premiered during winter solstice 2017, at Sigur Rós’s festival Norður og Niður.  The video installation Life in the Undergrowth in collaboration with Pierre-Alain Giraud, premiered at the opening of the Winter Lights Festival in Reykjavík in February 2018 and was projected on two large oil tanks. The third piece, Variations of Darkness, was specially created for the bright space at Reykjavik Art Museum and performed at Reykjavik Arts Festival in June 2018. 

Artistic Directors: Erna Ómarsdóttir, Valdimar Jóhannsson

Dancers: Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir, Elín Signý Weywadt, Ernesto Camilo Aldazabal Valdes, Hannes Þór Egilsson, Hjördís Lilja Örnólfsdóttir, Inga Maren Rúnarsdóttir, Sigurður Andrean Sigurgeirsson, Þyri Huld Árnadóttir

Music: Sigur Rós í samvinnu við Valdimar Jóhannsson

Costumes: Rebekka Jónsdóttir

Technical Supervisor: Valdimar Jóhannsson