The Phoenix takes flight at the Reykjavík Arts Festival

The dance-theatre work The Journey of the Phoenix – on the art of dying and being reborn is part of this spring’s Reykjavík Arts Festival and premieres on the Main Stage of Reykjavík City Theatre on 25 May at 8 pm.

A powerful theatrical event in which singer Eivør Pálsdóttir, contemporary dancer Reijo Kela and actor María Ellingsen each breathe life, in their own way, into the embers of this symbolic myth. The audience is led into a dreamlike world where the singer conjures a spell of rhythm and sound, the dancer and actor take the stage, and the audience experiences the performance at very close quarters.

Filippía Elísdóttir, Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson and Björn Bergsteinn Guðmundsson create the visual world of the production.