Theatre Maker Friðgeir Einarsson (*1981) has conducted extensive studies on the functions, processes, and relationships within the human brain. The results are bleak: we are too lazy to think! In his lecture performance ‹Tiny Guy›, it is this human deficiency which Friðgeir Einarsson attempts to get to the bottom of. He playfully and humorously makes us aware that everyone should question their own «Tiny Guy» - who this «Tiny Guy» ultimately is, we have to find out for ourselves. Friðgeir Einarsson works as a performer, director and author. He studied Theory and Practice of Contemporary Theatre at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík.
‹A Lecture on Borderline Musicals› is a highly expressive performance that skilfully and daringly draws the audience in, all the while searching for the essence of this extraordinary genre. The inescapable physical and emotional energy which the performers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson bring to the stage with every movement will continue to reverberate with the audience for a long time after the performance.
Erna Ómarsdóttir is one of Iceland's most successful choreographers and performers. She graduated from the renowned P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training College) in 1998 under the direction of Anna Teresa de Keersemaeker. Erna has worked with Björk, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jan Fabre among many others. As her compatriot, the distinguished Icelandic artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir says about her, «She is an element, a force of nature».
