www.maggabjarnadottir.com
Interviewed by Berglind María Tómasdóttir
“My background is in dance… Now I work in the field of performance, visual arts, and writing.”
“I have worked in a collective called Me and My Friends which consists of actors and dancers, choreographers, and a musician and a graphic designer who also did the costumes and set design. We’ve made two pieces together and that was very much created so that no one really had a specific role, we were just all making it as a group. Even the musician was doing all the improvisation with us, he didn’t come in later or something — we were all on the floor working.”
“Writing has always been a very big part of my stage pieces, there is usually quite a lot of text and also the visual aspect has always been important to me.”
“I always think it’s really important that any element like music and set design is there from the beginning of the rehearsal period, especially set design… I think nothing really new can happen unless you have these elements from day one and then you can really explore them and get something new out of them.”