Dance For Me is the collaboration of Brogan Davison (UK) and Pétur Ármannsson (ISL).
Brogan and Pétur met in Iceland in 2010 and started creating performance projects together the same year before making Dance for me in 2013 - a duet piece between Brogan and Pétur’s father Ármann Einarsson - which propelled them into the international performance scene. Since then, they have presented work in over sixty venues in eleven countries.
Over the years Dance For Me have worked with the formats of dance, biographical performance and stand-up and developed a trademark off-key approach to performance making. Their work has been said to offer conditions of solidarity through their embracing of weakness, failure and vulnerability in a way that is as hilarious as it is sincere.
Dance For Me were part of the N.O.W. network, a European research and development project for the performing arts from 2015-2018 and are associate artists of Lókal Performance Festival in Reykjavík.
Dance For Me’s work has been supported and presented in national and international venues, including:
Lavanderia a Vapore (IT)
Welcome To Our Guesthouse - Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam (NL)
Meteor Festival (NO), Oktoberdans Festival (NO) - BIT Teatergarasjen (NO)
Fabrica Europa (IT)
Indiciplinarte (IT)
The Bastard Festival (NO) - Rosendal Theater (NO)
Arctic Arts Festival (NO)
Dansstationen (SE)
Kulturcentrum Sandviken (SE)
Norrlands Operan (SE)
Dansens Hus (SE)
TanZeit ZeiTanZ (CH)
Dansfestival Barents (NO)
Multiplié Dansefestival (NO)
Dansehallerne (DK)
Baltoppen LIVE (DK)
Theatre Momentum (DK)
Bora Bora (DK)
Team Teatret (DK)
Teater Nordkraft (DK)
All Tomorrows Dances Festival - Mousonturm (DE)
Nuna (now) (CA)
Tampere Theatre Festival (FI)
Everybody’s Spectacular Festival (ISL)
Reykjavík Dance Festival, Reykjavík (ISL)
Lókal Performance Festival (ISL)
Leikfélag Akureyrar (ISL).
“…it’s important, it’s funny and it’s captivating, hard to ask for more.”
“…In their willingness to explore aspects of their real lives and relationships on stage, to poke fun at themselves and dissect the mechanism of storytelling, Pétur and Brogan continue to bring something fresh to the local performance landscape”
“You left me with the feeling, that I need to tell everybody to see this show before they die.”
“…it offers a condition of solidarity through the embrace of weakness, failure and vulnerability. And within that solidarity that their work offers, we find qualities of tenderness, empathy, laughter, comfort, and even love, for ourselves and each other.”