Icelandic Berlin based choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir studied dance in Holland and worked as a performer with various performance makers around Europe during the period 2001–2014. She co-founded the production house Panic Productions in Iceland which was active from 2004–2009 and focused on producing and initiating collaborative performance works with international artists for the Icelandic stage and beyond it. At the same time as she lived in Berlin creating and touring internationally her own performance works.
Since 2010 she has been addressing the pathological imprint of the social political body within our own bodies and its de-conditioning in her choreographic works as well as research into the deep tissue release practice FULL DROP. She considers her work involving de-conditioning as a direct political gesture and activism. In a larger sense her performance works engage in the ongoing discussion of healing, feminism, interconnectedness and notions of energetic citizenship within the choreographic context.
Boundless and Ominous Fields, which will premiere at Zodiak in February 2024, is created with and for Finnish performers Karolina Ginman and Marlon Moilanen. The piece is the first work in a trilogy commissioned by the two performers.
This performance work by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir aims to activate the archaic and energetic transgenerational archives of both performer and spectator.
Two bodies on stage in altered states, traveling through internal archives beyond the personal biographical body and the immediate conscious mind. Channeling rather than presenting or representing. Immersed with their epigenetic imprinting they hover on the borders between the unfamiliar and the hyper familiar, serving as a reflection of and a gateway into the history of our shared subconscious territories and altered states of resonance.
The performance goes a step further into Guðjónsdóttirs long term phenomenological exploration of altered states of consciousness through embodiment. Created with and for Finnish performers Karolina Ginman and Marlon Moilanen, it is the first work in a trilogy commissioned by the two performers.
Boundless Ominous Fields was premiered at Zodiak Stage as a part of the Side Step Festival on Feb 1–3, 2024. The performances continued as part of Zodiak's season programme on May 14–19, 2024.
