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VERK: When the Bleeding Stops 🇮🇸

Norðurlandahúsið í Føroyum - The Nordic House in The Faroe Islands

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Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm

Norðari Ringvegur, 100 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

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Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm (WEST)

Norðari Ringvegur, 100 Tórshavn

Norðari Ringvegur 13, FO-100 Tórshavn, Føroyar, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

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VERK: When the Bleeding Stops 🇮🇸
VERK: Dansisýning við skiftisárunum sum miðdepil
(English description below👇)

Hvussu kennist tað, at kroppurin broytist - og eingin tosar um tað?

Við dansisýningini When the Bleeding Stops brýtur íslendska Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, koreografur, tøgnina og tað tabu, sum skiftisárini hava her í vesturheiminum.

Tá Lovísa fyri fimm árum síðani kom til skaða, var hon noydd at umhugsa, hvussu og hvat við dansinum, og somuleiðis við kroppinum. Hetta fekk hana at leggja merki til tøgnina, ið valdar um skiftisárini, og hvussu lítið hon sjálv visti um hetta. Hon fór í holt við at granska og kanna og sendi eina almenna innbjóðing til allar konur í skiftisárunum. Stutt eftir arbeiddi hon saman við einari rúgvu av konum úr øllum Íslandi.

Nógvar av hesum konunum eru nú við í sýningini.

When the Bleeding Stops bjóðar áskoðarunum inn í ein sárbæran, ærligan og skemtiligan heim, har vit kaga inn í lívið, heimið og royndirnar hjá luttakarunum. Sýningin fer inn á skomm, empati, látur og tár - og letur upp fyri einum felags rúmi, har skiftisárini fáa rúmd og verða virðismett fyri alt tað torgreidda, sum nú einaferð fylgir við teimum.

Sýningin hevði frumsýning á Reykjavík Dance Festival í 2021 og hevur síðani verið á ferð og fingið sera góða móttøku. Ummælini hava verið serstakliga góð, og konurnar, ið hava verið við, lýsa hetta sum eina sera mennandi uppliving, sum hevur broytt lívið. When the Bleeding Stops var útnevnd at vera ársins innovativa sýning á The Icelandic Theatre Awards, og Lovísa fekk heiðurin at vera bæði Aerowaves- og Crowd-listafólkið í 2023.

Nú ferðast Lovísa við sýningini á altjóða pallinum. Allastaðni, har sýningin vitjar, bjóðar Lovísa konum í skiftisárunum at koma við í hesa listarligu sýning at siga sína søgu og at dansa — og at vera við at skapa eina rørslu at broyta hugsanirnar um skiftisárini í vesturheiminum.

Hetta merkir so eisini, at føroyskar konur vera við í sýningini í Norðurlandahúsinum,

Hugskot, koreografi og tekstur: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir
Ljóð- og ljósdesign: Brett Smith
Videodesign: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir & Brett Smith
Listafólk: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir, Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir umframt staðbundnar konur
Framleiðari: StepTurnMove – Wim Casier

Sýningin er partur av leiklistafestivalinum VERK - Nordic Stage Days, sum er stuðlaður av Nordisk Kulturfond.

▪️Atgongumerki: Kr. 200
▪️ Mál: Enskt
👉www.nlh.fo/?event=11553/when-the-bleeding-stops-is


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WHEN THE BLEEDING STOPS 🇮🇸
VERK: Dance performance about menopause

What does it feel like when the body changes, and no one talks about it?

In the dance performance When the Bleeding Stops, Icelandic choreographer Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir confronts the silence and stigma surrounding menopause in Western society — and breaks it.

Following an injury five years ago, Lovísa was forced to reevaluate her relationship to dance and her body. This process opened her eyes to the silence surrounding menopause and her lack of knowledge about the subject. She began researching and sent out an open invitation to women going through menopause. Before long, she was working with a large group of women from across Icelandic society.

Several of these Icelandic women now perform in the production.

When the Bleeding Stops invites the audience into a vulnerable, honest, and humorous space, offering insight into the participants’ lives, homes, and experiences. The piece moves through shame, empathy, laughter, and tears — opening up a collective space where menopause is acknowledged and celebrated in all its complexity.

The performance premiered at the Reykjavík Dance Festival in 2021 and has since toured with great success. It has received glowing reviews, and the women involved in the project describe the experience as empowering and life-changing. When the Bleeding Stops was nominated for Most Innovative Performance of the Year at the Icelandic Theatre Awards, and Lovísa was selected as both an Aerowaves and a Crowd artist in 2023.

With this performance, Lovísa now tours internationally. Wherever she goes, she invites local women in menopause into her artistic universe — to share stories and movement, and to help build a wider movement to change the narrative around menopause in the Western world.

And naturally, this includes Faroese women in menopause, who are contributing to this performance at the Nordic House.

Concept, choreography & text: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir
Sound & lighting design: Brett Smith
Video design: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir & Brett Smith
Performers: Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir, Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir, and local women
Producer: StepTurnMove – Wim Casier

This performance is part of the performing arts festival VERK – Nordic Stage Days, supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

▪️Tickets: Kr. 200
▪️ Language: English
👉www.nlh.fo/en?event=11553/when-the-bleeding-stops-is


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VERK: When the Bleeding Stops 🇮🇸, 3 October | Event in Tórshavn | AllEvents
VERK: When the Bleeding Stops 🇮🇸
Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm