Dance Party

Chapter 22 of Search For a Dancer, a memoir of a week spent in Iceland in November 2022

After leaving the urban-techno-gloom of Hafnartorg, arriving at Hildur Yeoman’s Boutique was akin to being teleported from a Stasi prison into a lively slumber party. Vibrant clothes from the shop surrounded us giving the space the feeling of a bedroom (or a very large clothes closet!) With the welcoming vibes and fab fashion emanating from the duo that is Cyber the audience was up for anything and they received a performance for the ages, or at least for a Friday afternoon.

Jóhanna Rakel

It was a wild show. The couple’s coordinated dance moves fit the hip-hop backing tracks of Karaoke Song perfectly (see 1st video below.) Some added social commentary was thrown in on the song No Cry - a riot of a song about a disconsolate twerker’s* dealings with sadness (but not romantic sadness!) It had a scream-along part in the middle that the whole crowd got into (see 2nd video below).

Salka Valsdóttir

Salka is another Icelandic Renaissance artist, she also performs as Neonme and with the outrageous feminist rap collective Daughters of Reykjavík. An accomplished audio engineer, Salka has worked in theatre productions in Iceland and Germany. I sensed that her relationship with Jóhanna was more than professional, in a very good way. What a delight to see two women on the same wavelength, with an obvious and deep affection for each other, prancing about in pajamas!

A dance party is nothing without dances, amiright? :





I came to Iceland looking for a dancer and I found two! Cyber’s intense set was too soon over. There was a hole in my Airwaves schedule,—none of the early evening acts were must-sees—so I headed over to Þjóðleikhúsið (The National Theatre), where an evening of drama and even more surprises awaited.


*Disconsolate Twerker™ FITK



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