HOME   EMAIL  Erna Ómarsdóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson (Iceland) IBM 1401 – A User’s Manual italian premiere 13th and 14th September h 20.30 Superstudio Più Lounge running time 45 mins. The outcome of an entirely Icelandic collaboration between the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir, historical dancer and collaborator of Jan Fabre, and the musician Johann Johannsson, "IBM 1401 – A User’s Manual" focuses on the themes of technology, intelligence and progress, exploring, through a powerful and strongly physical dance, the relationship between what is human and what is artificial, between the sensuality of the body and the concreteness of the machine. Choreography and music, played live on laptop and a Hammond B3, reproduce this opposition. The bodies become machines and elaborate a dance that, like an electric current, has a mysterious energy, untouchable and spontaneous. Already nominated best performer by Ballettanz in 2002, and one of the 100 best performers in the world at the Ninjinsky Prize 2002 in Monaco, Erna Ómarsdóttir was selected as the best performer 2003 by The Place, London. concept Erna Ómarsdóttir, Jóhann Jóhannsson - choreography and dance Erna Ómarsdóttir - music composed and performed live Jóhann Jóhannsson - strings Ethos Strings Quartet - coproduction GRIM (Groupe de Recherche et d’Improvisation Musicale) and L’Officina Marseille, for DANSEM 2002 festival (Marseille) - thanks to Kitchen Motors, 1x2x3 – Philippe Baste, Rosas Parts, Tjarnarbio (Reykjavik), Ekka, Omar, Kristin