Through her work, Sóley Frostadóttir explores the ways in which we experience embodiment. Whether through the dancer's body or our own. She plays with its limits and its presence. Even though the dancer is absent we experience colors, sound, silence and darkness through our own body.
Sóley Frostadóttir works as a choreographer and editor. She graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance Practices from Iceland University of the Arts in 2017, an MFA in Performing Arts in 2022, and holds an MA in Editing and Publishing from the University of Iceland in 2021. In her MA studies in publishing, she specialised in art magazines, artist books, and other publications. Sóley works across disciplines and has presented her work in Mengi and Kúlan at Reykjavík Dance Festival, Reykjavík’s Children Culture Festival, Plöntutíð, Midpunkt, Gerðarsafn, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Ásmundarsalur.
In addition to her work as a choreographer, Sóley has taught ballet, choreography, and dance history. In 2020, she published the first edition of Dunce, an annual magazine on choreography and performance art, in collaboration with Print & Friends. Sóley took part in the project Goethe Morph* Iceland in 2022 as curator of documentation and contributor of an artist statement.
CV
EDUCATION
2021 - 2022 MFA Performing Arts - Iceland University of the Arts
2019 - 2021 MA Editing and Publishing - University of Iceland
2013 - 2017 BA Contemporary Dance - Iceland University of the Arts
2012 - 2013 Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance
2011 - 2012 Literature - University of Iceland
2010 Northern Ballet School
2007 - 2010 Klassíski Listdansskólinn
WORKS
2023 Tif - Plöntutíð
2022 Container - Black box, IUA
2022 Pull - Boreal Screendance Festival, Akureyri
2021 Pull - The National Theatre experimental night - Reykjavík Dance Festival
2020 Festa/ Anchor - choreographed for FWD Youth Company - Museum Night, Reykjavík Art Museum
2020 Ceremony I - Ásmundarsalur
2019 Log - Með líkamann að vopni - Midpunkt
2019 Ceremony I - Gerðarsafn and Midpunkt
2019 Litmynd - Children’s Culture Festival
2017 A Discourse on Embodiment - Choreo-Talks - Reykjavík Dance Festival
2017 Something Temporal - Smiðjan IUA
2016 Birting - Smiðjan IUA
2013 Milk or Sugar - Artist Run Space - Vienna
PERFORMED IN
2022 Container - Black Box, IUA
2021 Pull - The National Theatre experimental night - Reykjavík Dance Festival
2019 Documentary on dancers by Niki Noves
2019 Woman Landscape: Takeover - Tjarnarbíó by Anna Kolfinna Kuran
2017 A Guide to the Perfect Human - Tjarnarbíó by Gígja Jónsdóttir and Guðrún Sigurjónsdóttir
2017 Something Temporal - Smiðjan IUA
WRITING & EDITORIAL WORK
2023 Chapter for the Iceland Dance Company's 50-year anniversary in Dunce III - writer and editor
2023 Dunce 3d issue - Editor-in-chief and publisher
2023 Tif - Artist book, Plöntutíð
2022 RDF Zine -Editor and publisher of an anniversary publication for Reykjavík Dance Festival
2022 Alterations: the Horizontality of a Body at Rest and the Verticality of a Body in Motion - online artist book for Goethe Morph* Iceland
2022 Goethe Morph* Iceland - Author and curator of documentation
2021 Pull - artist book
2021 Reykjavík Art Book Fair - Curator for Reykjavík Dance Festival’s selection of artist books
2021 Dunce 2nd issue - Editor-in-chief and publisher
2021 Ástarbréf til Sigvalda - Editor - Photography book by Loji Höskuldsson - Grazie Press
2020 Dunce magazine 1st issue - Editor-in-chief and publisher
2020 Vinnubók I - Copy editor - Research project on artist books IUA
2020 Möndulhalli - Editor - Collection of short stories - Published by Una útgáfuhús
TEACHING & MENTORING
2022 Mentor and lecturer in independent practice in choreography for Forward Youth Company
2021 Evaluator for graduation works from Contemporary Dance Practices - Iceland University of the Arts
2021 - Dance history teacher - Hamrahlíð College
2013 - 21 Ballet and choreography teacher - Dansgarðurinn
2018 Dans fyrir alla - assistant teacher - contemporary dance for refugees
2018 Ballet for adults - Kramhúsið
2017 - 18 Dans fyrir alla - creative dance in preschools and choreography in primary schools
COMMITTEES
2021 Member of selection committee - Gríman performance awards
2020 - Board member - Reykjavík Dance Festival
2019 - 20 Member of selection committee - Gríman performance awards
INTERNSHIPS, RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
2022 IETM Campus Berlin on managerial competences for international collaboration in the performing arts field
2017 Saga Sigurðardóttir
2017 Marble Crowd at K3 Hamburg
2016 CPYB Ballet Teachers Workshop