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Dance For Me’s work can be located within the realm of staging the ‘personal’ through their trademark vulnerable and off-key approach to performance making. Their work has been said to offer a condition of solidarity through the embrace of weakness, failure and vulnerability in a way that is as hilarious as it is sincere.

During the workshop the group will be encouraged to create scenes that epically ‘fail’ and then stand-by them as well as celebrate them. They will attempt tasks that are too difficult if not impossible to do, play with anticlimax or boredom and dance on the fragile line of success and failure. Working with the often fragile and absurd nature of life, the group will be offered the opportunity to stage their more unflattering sides through acts of love, rage, bravery or stupidity.

The workshop is free, and open for dancers, performing artists and artists interested in movement work. Students of dance/theatre/performance can apply to participate.

If you have any questions, contact [email protected]

The workshop is a collaboration with PRODA Hordaland and Bergen Dansesenter – regional centre of excellence for dance.

Webpage: danceforme.is

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“…it offers a condition of solidarity through the embrace of weakness, failure and vulnerability. And within that solidarity that their work offers, we find qualities of tenderness, empathy, laughter, comfort, and even love, for ourselves and each other.” -About the work of Dance For Me, Alexander Roberts – Co-Director Reykjavík Dance Festival and Programme Director MFA Performing Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts.

Dance For Me is the award-winning collaboration of performance makers Pétur Ármannsson (IS) and Brogan Davison (UK). Their first project, Dance for me (2013), propelled them into the international performance scene and they have since made Petra (2014), Stripp (2016) and The Brogan Davison Show (2017). Located within the field of real fiction, their work explores the relationship of a lived life and it’s representation and tackles questions that arise from the act of staging a ‘self’ through their trademark vulnerable and off-key approach to performance making.

Dance For Me’s work has been presented in dance and theatre contexts in Iceland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Canada in venues such as Lókal International Performance Festival, Reykjavík Dance Festival (Iceland), Mousonturm (Germany), BIT Teatergarasjen (Norway) and Bora Bora, (Denmark).

Photo: Bart Grietens