Olof Ingolfsdottir
Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir
graduated from the painting department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in 1987,
after which she was a guest student at the Suomen Kuvataideakademia for one year. In 1989-93
she studied dance and choreography at the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, Holland
and in the years to follow took courses with various choreographers. She continues to dance,
choreograph and teach dance. She is the director of Ólöf danskompaní that has performed works
by other choreographers, such as Reijo Kela, and her own works, such as Five Square
Meters 2001 and The Secret Life of a Wallflower 2003. Ólöf has created two pieces
in co-operation with finnish dancer and choreographer Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo, The
Revolution of the Middle-aged 2002 and ManWoMan 2004. Ólöf is one of the
founders of Reykjavík Dance Festival, an annual festival started in 2002. Ólöf has created 3
pieces for the Iceland Dance Company: Man is Always Alone and Plan B for ID,
both of which have toured abroad, and To Each his Own, premiered the fall of 2006.