Nánd

Nánd (e. Intimacy) by Embla and Íris Stefanía premiered at the Reykjavík Dance Festival 2025 in the Error Gender hub. In the piece Embla and Íris move within a slow, flowing rhythm, exploring connection, intimacy, and disability. Through the practice of mirroring and improvisation, their bodies meet, merge, and transform.

The work invites the audience to witness a space of vulnerability and presence, a soft choreography of trust, breath, and touch. Here, movement becomes a language of care and sensuality.

About the artists

Íris Stefanía (she/her) works within the performing arts and curation - she is interested in pleasure and taboos, exploring these topics from a feminist perspective. She has worked in different mediums, including literature, story circles, performances and audio works.
Embla (she/her) is a performer and her work is rooted in disability and queer pride. With an academic background in sociology, Embla has done research and academic papers on disability in relation to sexuality, shame, pleasure and affect. Embla has transformed her work into the field of performance art and has on stage aimed to perform the erotic, unapologetic version of disability that we so rarely get to see. Embla’s work on stage evolves around dance, movements, storytelling and she uses devised theatre methods in her work.