Ice Hot CPH / Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir
Milkywhale

OBS! This performance is a part off the platform ICE HOT NORDIC DANCE – which is presented at different venues in Copenhagen which Dansehallerne collaborates with.
This performance is only presented at Baltoppen LIVE

Milkywhale
She is all dressed in white clothes. Her soft vocals are set to electronic pop music. And then in the middle of it all she starts dancing. Not as a supplementary thing but as the primary art form.
She is a dancer and a choreographer and her name is Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir.
She has teamed up with musician Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson under the name Milkywhale.
The band’s live show dismantles the boundaries between a concert and a performance.

Through a series of pop songs, Milkywhale is a visual trip through soundscape and choreography.
This epic concert features trivial things like love, trampoline exercises, whales and white animals.

Premiere / at the Reykjavik Dance Festival 24th Aug 2015.
Created with the support of / The Ministry of Culture in Iceland and Reykjavik city in collaboration with the Reykjavik Dance Atelier and the Reykjavik Dance Festival


Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir
Melkorka studied choreography at School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels 2006-2010. She has collaborated with the Icelandic Dance Company, The National Theater of Iceland and Ultima Vez.
She is a part of collectives such as John the Houseband, Melkorka & Kata and most recently Milkywhale.

Árni Rúnar is a musician mostly known for his work with Icelandic electro-pop band FM Belfast.The duo started working together in the spring of 2015 and immediately gained attention for their kinetic, entertaining concept.
Milkywhale has been performed at numerous festivals such as The Reykjavik Dance Festival, Iceland Airwaves, Sonar Reykjavik and this summer the Roskilde Festival.

Artist

Ice Hot CPH / Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir

Title

Milkywhale

Type

Performance

Date

2.12.2016

Credits

Concept and performance / Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir Music / Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson Lyrics / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Set design and visuals / Magnús Leifsson Light Design / Jóhann Friðrik Ágústsson Sound Design / Kristinn Gauti Einarsson Dramaturgy / Halldór Halldórsson

Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform

elsewhere
milkywhale

In this interactive dance performance, the artists invite the children on a journey to the imaginary universe ’milkywhale’ – where the sea and the sky bump into each other and to worlds meet. Among others, we meet creatures that communicate in languages very different from ours. In order to get to know these creatures, we find new and joint ways of communicating: through dance, sound, rhythm and drawing.

Together with the dancers, the children create the architecture of the imaginary universe, and through playful tasks they learn how they by listening, watching and experiencing can make up new ways of being together, and can be storytellers without words.

Artist

elsewhere

Title

milkywhale

Age

Grades 0 to 3.

Practical info.

Space: 'milkywhale' is performed in a gymnastic hall or large space approximately 10 x 13 metres with a clean and plain wooden floor. The space cannot be a passage room, and must be heated to 20/21 degrees.

Numbers: Per performance max. 50 pupils and two adults participating. It must be the same adults throughout the whole session.
There are three dancers visiting you.

Clothing: Please wear clothes that you can move in.

Sound: There must be a functioning set of sound equipment in the space.

Duration: 90 minutes per performance.

Type

For Municipalities, For schools

Credits

Choreographers: Kalliopi Siganou, Vivian Poldõja and Irma von Platen, Dancers: Karin Bergman, Vivian Poldõja and Kalliopi Siganou, Photographers: Camilla Winther et al.

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