Dancing Rabbit is a creative character workshop for children in the context of Sequences XII. The concept derives from Leevi Mettinen and Sóley Ólafsdóttir’s performance concept and creation for kids, ‘Kanlínudans’.

For this workshop Leevi and Sóley, as the rabbits Leynir and Læða, will guide children, through playing and flowing, in finding their own dancing rabbit. The rabbit characters move through nature’s different time scales and play with the themes of the festival, Pása/Pause, moving in and through imagined elements of nature as well as playing at different speeds as the Rabbits erode.

Leynir and Læða can’t wait to dance and explore the playfulness in rabbit dancing and erosion!

Dance artists Leevi Mettinen, from Finland, and Sóley Ólafsdóttir, from Iceland, both graduated from the IUA with a BA in Contemporary Dance Practices. Leevi and Sóley work as freelancers, as dancers and choreographers, as well as creating and producing their own works. At the moment, they are working as performers for Rósa Ómarsdóttir in her creation for Sequences XII. Leevi and Sóley create dance performances for children by the name Bunny Business, where they build on a successful trajectory from their first creation, Kanlínudans, from 2024. In Bunny Business, Leevi and Sóley create characters through dance and deal with different ways of behaving, being and thinking as characters search for ways to dance together.