Don't Let Me Down & In The End

Abstract

DON’T LET ME DOWNOur origins start before we can remember, so inevitably we have to take someone's word for how things began. And though we prize a sense of choice and causality, we are actually untethered, flailing around in space. Pushing against nothing, just to feel our bodies burn. And so we are drifting along in the current of something we don't understand (and the truth is we don't need to understand anything to appreciate life)... a bit of joy, some pain, and the sheer fucking luck of being here at all.Choreographers: VIM VIGOR / Shannon Gillen and Jason CianciulliChoreographic collaborator: Katherine KiesslingCostumes: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir & Kristrún Rut AntonsdóttirLighting: Ólafur Ágúst StefánssonText: Shannon GillenOriginal Score: Marshall Chadbourne with excerpts from Orville Peck's 'Fancy' and an interview of Ruby Baker, an eighty-six year old Appalachian woman from Harlan County, Kentucky from the documentary 'Soft White Underbelly'.IN THE ENDIn The End marks the end of the studies of the BA students of dance at LHÍ. In The End is a dance that reflects the transformative aspect of endings. What is born from the end of something? Is the end the same for me and you? This combination of dances — which represent endings in one way or another — are drawn from existing choreographic works as well as from the dance vocabulary of the graduates. Together they weave a series of different ending dances to create new compositions. This concurrence of dances affects the movement, but this impact doesn't compromise the quality of the dances, but rather allows their transformation. The end result is a hybrid through which we see renewed physical constellations and configurations, a testament to the coexistence of multiple endings.Choreographer: Inga Huld Hákonardóttir in collaboration with the graduating studentsSet: Guðný Hrund SigurðardóttirCostumes: Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir & Kristrún Rut AntonsdóttirLighting: Ólafur Ágúst StefánssonLive music & composition: Stirnir KjartanssonArtistic advice & dramaturgy: Védís KjartansdóttirGraduating students:Alice RombergChrista RopponenCristina Ísabel AguedaJuulius VaiksooLea Alexandra GunnarsdóttirLeevi Matias RauhalahtiOlga Maggý WintherOlivia Teresa Due PyszkoSara Lind GuðnadóttirVigdís Birna Grétarsdóttir