The Mysteries of Love
The Mysteries of Love by Erna Omarsdóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson (Iceland) is a performance about girl gangs, queen bees, social stigmatization and pecking order.
Information
(Objekt ID 4293)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | October 19, 2006 |
| Coproducers | The Avignon Festival, , Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, , Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Dance, Contemporary dance, Concert |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
The Mysteries of Love merges music dance and song, exploring the boundaries between concert and dance theatre.
The title for the production The Mysteries of love by Erna Omarsdóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson stems from the theme song of the movie Blue Velvet by David Lynch. The Mysteries of love is the second of ten planned suites merging music, movements and song, while exploring the boundaries between concert and dance theatre. The previous was called IBM 1401, a user´s manual.
"For this project, as sources, we wanted to involve, among other things, texts, films and themes connected to teenagers and adolescence. Films like Blue Velvet and countless horror films show the manifestations of the dark side, young people losing innocence, virginity, discovering deeply ambivalent and conflicting emotions", Erna Omarsdóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson said in 2006.
Icelandic Erna Omarsdóttir was educated at P.A.R.T.S. and has worked as a dancer in companies such as Les Ballet C de la B and Troubleyn/Jan Fabre. With the musician and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson she had formerly produced the critically acclaimed production IBM1401 – A User’s Manual. The production The Mysteries of Love was part of BergArt 2006.
Source:
BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2006. 12.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/64
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Jóhann Jóhannsson | – Concept/Idea |
| Erna Omarsdóttir | – Concept/Idea |
| Sylvain Rausa | – Lighting design |
| Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir | – Co-creator |
| Jóhann Jóhannsson | – Co-creator |
| Erna Omarsdóttir | – Co-creator |
| Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir | – Performer |
| Jóhann Jóhannsson | – Performer |
| Erna Omarsdóttir | – Performer |
| Flosi Thorgeirsson | – Performer |
| Hlynur Adils Vilmarsson | – Performer |
| Esther Welger-Barboza | – Producer |
| October 20, 2006 19:30 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche (Oktoberdans) | Show |
| October 19, 2006 19:30 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche (Oktoberdans) | National premiere, Norway |
| Oktoberdans | October 19, 2006 |