Saving History

A powerful solo performance - borrowing from the best

When dancer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir started to make dances as a teenager, her practice always included a certain amount of so-called borrowing: taking inspiration from other choreographers and works, remixing and incorporating the material discreetly into her own work. Saving History takes as its starting point the chronological charting of the 15 year engagement Katrín Gunnarsdóttir had with borrowing dance material from others in the beginning of her career.

Paying tribute to this well–honed methodology, Saving History is something of a recognition of borrowing as an inherent part of any creative and learning process. The work also deals with the dancer's relationship to her personal dance history and to the labour of the dancer.

Now, Katrín returns to Saving History, originally premiered in 2014, revisiting the work through the lens of time, experience, and a changed context.

"the relationship to found, borrowed material becomes a conversation between the work, the body of the dancer, and the context...referencing becomes a process and a mode of communication; without any precise ownership, and only the personal filter, the piece enhances our experience of movement. It is neither in a canon, nor in the body of the performer fully - she is constantly pointing to an outside."-Critics in Conversation, Stamsund Teaterfestival

Premiered in 2014 at Reykjavík Dance Festival

Created and performed by: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir / Dramaturgical advice: Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir / Light design: Jóhann Friðrik Ágústsson / Photos: Jeaneen Lund

Length: 30 minutes

Production: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir / Supported by the City of Reykjavík and Reykjavík Dance Atelier

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