Sara Margrét | Erla Rut | Eydís Rose
Notalegur Félagsskapur is a collaboration of three Icelandic dance artists: Erla Rut Mathiesen, Eydís Rose Vilmundardóttir and Sara Margrét Ragnarsdóttir.
Their collective curiosity lies in the social role of the dancefloor and manifests in the series “Ode to a Dancefloor”. The series consists of video portraits that document Icelandic dancers and choreographers and have been presented at many festivals. The collective is currently working towards a new piece, a trio for stage.
Erla Rut Mathiesen
Erla Rut graduated with a bachelor's degree in contemporary dance from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2016. After completing her studies, she has studied Fighting Monkey Practice and is now part of a special group within FM Practice, FM Stray Dogs. She has worked as a dancer, teacher and freelance artist as a performer, author and project manager.
Recent projects are The Practice Performed by Steinunni Ketilsdóttir, premiered in Tjarnarbíó, June 2021, Oður til Dansgólf, shown at the Winter Festival in Reykjavík 2021, Figures in Landscape by Ragnar Kjartansson. Since 2018, she has been the project manager of the research project EXPRESSIONS, led by Steinunna Ketilsdóttir. Erla Rut, one of the three founders of the independent dance group Notalegur Félagsskapur.
Erla Rut has taught FM Practice at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Classical Art Dance School and FWD Youth Company. Erla Rut works as a dance coach in Stjörnun's Gymnastics Association and as the national team coach of the Icelandic men's team in group gymnastics.
Eydís Rose Vilmundardóttir
Eydís graduated with a BA in contemporary dance from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2016. She took a year off from her studies to study dance theater in England under the direction of the Jasmin Vardimon Company. Since then, she has worked as a freelance artist and dancer both in Iceland and abroad.
She has had the honor of working with artists such as Jasmin Vardimon, Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Marilena Dara, Mafalda Deville, Sága Sigurðardóttir, Sveinbjörga Þórhallsdóttir, Steinunna Ketils, Mattías Tryggva Haraldsson and Lucie Vigneault. Eydís belongs to two independent dance groups, Notaleg Félagsskap and RVK Dance Project.
Alongside this, Eydís has been working on various teaching jobs and projects since 2013. At the moment, she teaches contemporary dance at the Classical Art School and the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
Sara Margrét Ragnarsdóttir
Sara Margrét graduated with a BA in contemporary dance from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2016. After graduation, she has worked on various projects in the independent dance scene in Iceland and Denmark as both a performer and author.
Sara Margrét is one of the three founders of the independent dance group Notalegir Félagsskapur, which has worked on a variety of works in the series Oður til Dansgólf. She has also worked in collaboration with Marina Dubia on the work the margins of my limit, Andrean Sigurgeirsson on the work Mass Confusion, she was the choreographer and assistant director of the musical Clueless in collaboration with Anna K. Einarsdóttir and performed the work Cloak by Sago Sigurðardóttir.
Sara has also taught creative dance to children as part of the Dance for Everyone project organized by the Dance Park.
Sara moved to Copenhagen in the fall of 2019, where she was a producer for the Y Choreography festival organized by HAUT.