Over the last year, Reykjavík Dance Festival has been working on a series of projects in collaboration with a unique team of teenagers from Reykjavík. Inspiring, smart, creative and empowered voices – who have the power to make magic happen. It has been our honour to get to work with them.
These teenagers - in collaboration with the RDF team - have been making a festival together. A programme of activities that will live in the city through workshops, performances, seminars, publications and public interventions. A programme of activities that meets in the crossovers between dance, theatre, choreography, performance, fashion, visual arts and design.
There will be, take overs of a swimming pool, a greenhouse, a gallery, a theatre, as well a whole host of secret locations across the city from board rooms, to bus stops, to school corridors.
For these teenagers, this festival is a platform for them to speak to each other, as well as to the city at large – and they are taking it right to where they want it to be. Teenagers on the stage, behind the stage, in the audience, on the television, on the airwaves, and out there in the city – all the time dealing with dance, choreography, performance, art and design in extraordinary ways.
Participation Artists:
Hugleikur Dagson
Ása Hjörleifsdóttir
Króli
Korkimon
FWD Youth Company
Les Coquettes
Anna Kolfinna Kuran
Sarah Vanhee
Usee Studio
Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir
About Teenagers in Reykjavík
In 2015, curators Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir founded a new platform under the title Teenagers in Reykjavík. The focus of this platform was to bring challenging and experimental approaches to the performing arts into conversation with young people in the city. The platform is geared towards empowering the voices and agency of young people in the city through significant collaborations with artists working in the performing arts field.
Since the beginning, Teenagers in Reykjavík has been commissioning works, workshops, symposiums and festivals and has become recognised internationally for the founding of a teenage curatorial platform.
The platform has worked with artists including Sarah Vanhee, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Þordís Zoega, Alexander Roberts, Anna Kolfinna Kuran, Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Ingri Fiksdal, Dance for Me, among others.
The platform is artistically led by Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir in collaboration with a team of teenage curators. Teenagers in Reykjavík are increasingly touring abroad to give talks and workshops, as well as curate programmes.
Events took place at Tjarnarbío, the Reykjavík Art Museum, the Nordic House, and a public swimming pool on the westside of town.
The events were supported by Reykjavík City and the Iceland Ministry of Culture and Education.
