Árið án sumars / A Year Without Summer - Reykjavík Dance Festival

Name: Árið án sumars / A Year Without Summer - Reykjavík Dance Festival
Start: 2025-11-13T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Borgarleikhúsið

Schedule

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Borgarleikhúsið | Reykjavík, RE

A gang of bohemic poets K*ll time by Lake Geneva as they wait for an unusual summer storm to pass. Entertaining each other with horror games and tales, the five friends find themselves haunted by something other than mere fiction.
A Year Without a Summer is a devised work of visual choreography for the big stage, a haunting performance about the summer of 1816 and the Gothic fiction of Frankenstein and The Vampire, authored that season. Through this lens, we look at how we are haunted by our past, especially now in the form of climate change. Disrupted weather is never made in the present but a result of actions in the past. These things are connected by a Mount Tambora erupting in Southeast Asia in 1815 that indirectly motivated the creation of the novels because of the climate crisis it created in Europe the following year
The Icelandic based Marble Crowd collective is back with a contemporary gothic spectacle. In this ultimate performance of the collective´s landscape trilogy, the weather and the supernatural are both material and method.
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Marble Crowd is an informal ensemble of artists based in Reykjavík, Iceland who have been working together in various constellations for more than a decade.
Since they first started to collaborate in Scape of Grace (2013) and Predator (2014) led by choreographer Saga Kjerulf S.dóttir, their work has transitioned from choreographer-led ensemble to a collective of authors.

Their first production as a collective, Moving Mountains in Three Essays premiered in 2017. It was a production of Marble Crowd and K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg as part of the festival TOGETHERAPART. Moving Mountains was nominated as the production of the year 2017 in Europe by Tanz Magazine and was also listed as Rising Stars in Performance Arts in Tanz Magazine 2017.
In 2019 Marble Crowd was nominated as Choreographer of the Year by Icelandic Performance Arts Awards for Moving Mountains.

Øland premiered at the National Theatre of Iceland in January 2020 to great acclaim. It was nominated for the Icelandic Performing Arts Award (Gríman) in 11 categories and won:

* Stage Choreography of the Year
* Best Original Music Score
* Best Costume Design

Marble Crowd:
Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (dance artist), Kristinn Guðmundsson (visual artist), Saga Kjerulf S.dóttir (dance artist), Sigurður Arent Jónsson (theater artist) & Védís Kjartansdóttir (dance artist).