In 1998 Erna Ómarsdóttir graduated from P.A.R.T.S. under the direction of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. Since then she worked as a dancer for several companies and choreographers, to name in the first place Troubleyn directed by Jan Fabre creating and dancing various works, ao the solo „My movements are alone like streetdogs“. Since 2002 she has been working with Les Ballets C. de la B. and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui creating and performing „Foi“. At the same time she has actively persued her own work. Her recent projects are „IBM – 1401, a user's manual“ and „The mysteries of love“, both in cooperation with the musician and composer Johann Johannsson, „Poni“ (Project 1 and 2) and „We are all Marlene Dietrich FOR“ in cooperation with Emil Hrvatin for the Icelandic Dance Company, both being presented at ImPulsTanz 2005, and „Ofaett“ with Damien Jalet and visual artist Gabriela Fridriksdóttir. Since 1996 Erna Omarsdottir established Ekka Dancetheater in Reykjavik. 2006 she was selected the artist of her hometown Kopavour in Iceland.