Rósa Ómarsdóttir (IS)

In a place where everything is leaking and dripping, where things are not as they seem, everything is holding onto breath. There, the relations between cause and effect, living and non-living, artificial and natural, are uncertain, uncanny.

In Spills, various landscapes appear and quickly blur together again. They morph between swamps, mountains, underground caves, bacterial cultures. They get stuck in endless contaminated loops until they dissolve, sulk and spill. Invisible forces play a leading role: humidity, waves, gravity and the electromagnetic field become a moving force, and something as simple as causality becomes a magical affair.

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Artist / Company Bio

Rósa Ómarsdóttir is an Icelandic choreographer. She studied at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and PARTS in Brussels.
In her artistic practice she explores human and non-human encounters, searching for non-anthropocentric narratives. Her ongoing research deals with finding an ecosystem of humans, objects and invisible forces, exploring the power dynamics that occur in those encounters. Her work is interdisciplinary, interweaving choreography with live sound-production and dynamic scenography.
Her work has been nominated several times for the Icelandic Theatre Awards and received the awards in the Choreography and Soundscape categories.

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