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ELÍN HANSDÓTTIR
NATIONAL THEATRE OF ICELAND
SAKNAÐARILMUR - THE SCENT OF LOSS
Premiere 15.02. 2024

Starring: Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir
Directed by: Björn Thors
Costumes: Filippía Elísdóttir
Scenography: Elín Hansdóttir
Lighting: Björn Bergsteinn Guðmundsson
Music: Ólöf Arnalds & Skúli Sverrisson
Sound design: Aron Þór Arnarsson
Choreography: Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Director´s assistant:
Júlía Gunnarsdóttir



NATIONAL THEATRE OF ICELAND
VERTU ÚLFUR
Premiere 22.01. 2021

Starring: Björn Thors
Directed by: Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir
Scenography: Elín Hansdóttir
Costumes: Filippía I. Elísdóttir
Music: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Lighting: Björn Bergsteinn Guðmundsson
/ Halldór Örn Óskarsson
Sound design: Elvar Geir Sævarsson
/ Valgeir Sigurðsson


K3 TANZPLAN HAMBURG
KAMPNAGEL
ON MISUNDERSTANDING
2010

Concept and direction:
Margrét Bjarnadóttir

Performers: Margrét Bjarnadóttir, Dani Brown, Saga Sigurðardóttir
Set and costumes: Elín Hansdóttir
Sound: Alessio Castellacci
On set photos: Florian Thiele

When understanding collapses, confusion follows, and in the mess new discoveries can be made. On Misunderstanding looks into the nature of misunderstandings, into how communication can break down, into behavioral malfunctions, into illusions, distortions and parallel realities. Is it all a question of perspective? A bad translation? Or is reality the most basic misunderstanding of all?