From May 9th – 16th 2025 the Contemporary Dance Practices graduate students from Iceland University of the Arts present two dance pieces; Divine by Halla Ólafsdóttir & Disaster Resilience of the Water by Sandrine Cassini. 

Dancers//Students: Andrea María Ólafsdóttir, Bertine Bertelsen Fadnes, Elida Angvik Hovdar, Elsa Kamöy Furuseth, Jaakko Juhani Fagerberg, Leevi Alpo Antinpoika Mettinen, Mari Ann Valkna, María Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, Rebekka Guðmundsdóttir & Torfi Tómasson.

Programme director: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

Set & costume design: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir
Light & sound design: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Light & sound operator: María Jóngerð Gunnlaugsdóttir

When:
Friday - May 9th - 20:00 - 21:40
Saturday -May 10th - 18:00 - 19:40
Sunday - May 11th - 18:00 - 19:40

Wednesday - May 14th - 20:00 - 21:40
Thursday - May 15th - 20:00 - 21:40
Friday - May 16th - 20:00 - 21:40

Two shows with one 20 minute break.

Where:
Big Black Box
Iceland University of the Arts
Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík
Enter from below the building, entrance closest to Sæbraut.

Divine
The coven calls you in

Divine is a dance performance by Halla Ólafsdóttir, originally premiered at Uniarts in Stockholm in 2024, now reimagined in collaboration with the 3rd year BA in Dance at LHI.

The performance combines Halla’s long-term obsessions — the diva, the witch, and the rockstar — with the idea of the dancer as a channeler of the divine. Through choreography and sound, Divine becomes a balm for the senses, exploring the raw dynamics between performer and spectator.

Divine invites you into a hypnotic world where a coven of dancers shapeshifts contemporary dance into a divine ritual, a divine narrative, a divine drag, a divine beast, a divine spiral, a divine attention, a divine pose, a divine listening, a divine crow, a divine rockstar, a divine composition, a divine shaking, a divine trajectory, a divine imagination, a divine feeling, a divine translation, a divine transmutation, a divine lake, a divine scream, a divine channeling, a divine choir, a divine diagonal, a divine forest, and a divine, disgustingly cute diva.

Through movement, voice, and immersive soundscape, Divine transforms space — oscillating between the intimate and the epic. It is a ritual of collective energy, inspired by the stillness of a deep lake and the untamed force of a coven.

Choreography: Halla Ólafsdóttir in collaboration with the dancers

Piano music: Futö by Shida Shahabi

Sound design: Valdimar Jóhannsson and Halla Ólafsdóttir

Vocals: Elida Angvik Hovdar and Torfi Tómasson together with the choir of dancers.

All texts in the performance are written by the dancers.