Aug 26+27+29. When there’s only surface left / Oda Brekke
Oda Brekke’s work departs from an interest in the innumerable traces that are discovered and produced when dancing. In this work the paradoxical aspect of the concept surface is a starting point. Evoking the sense of the most concrete and graspable; what is actually here, what can be seen or touched and pointed at. At the same time surface evokes the meaning of superficiality and appearance– a fasade stripped from solid structure and deep meaning.
Together with Lisa Schåman and Maia Means she has developed methods to generate dance material through a surface logic; a continuous movement and effort of emptying things out. The dance is directing them along textures and marks and through a specific rhythm they are faced with their own histories; of dance and of everyday interactions.
When there’s only surface left is made together with sound artist Hara Alonso and artist Mathilde Sundfjord Sæthre. In this work digital sound, textile and dance are put next to one another. In the process the concepts surface, trace and emptiness has been used as a filters to give specific attention to materials and their memories.
Choreography: Oda Brekke
Dance: Maia Means, Lisa Schåman and Oda Brekke
Sound: Hara Alonso
Textile and objects: Mathilde Sundfjord Sæthre
Dramaturgical advice: Karina Sarkissova
Administration: Interim kultur
Special thanks to Stina Ehn and Jack Ohlsson
Supported by Weld, The swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grant Committee and the Nordic Culture fund.
Developed in residency at Weld, höjden, DC Väst, Konstepidemin and Dansplats Skog.
Oda Brekke (SE/NO)
is a dance artist working as choreographer and performer. She is educated at the BA program of Dance Performance at DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts. Her work explores experimental methods oscillating between dance and text as materials. 2018 she made the performance On top of things with Maia Means. In 2020 she was part of the editorial team behind the publication Art as Object|Art as Practice, produced as part of the nordic platform PIM (Para Institutional Models) with Anders Paulin, Emilia Gasiorek and Runa Borch Skolseg. She is currently collaborating with choreographer Alexander Talts on the piece and text collection Där en samling av förnimmelser landar. As a performer Oda has worked with choreographers such as Karen Eide Bøen, Leah Landau, Gry Tingskog, Ellen Söderhult and Mira Mutka. She is a co-founder of the collective studio höjden in Stockholm.
Maia Means (NO/DK)
is a Stockholm-based dancer who engages with text, performance and choreographic structures. She is currently working with choreographers Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde and Björn Säfsten, while making dances and books with Max Wallmeier. Maia is active in the artist-driven organisations INSISTER SPACE and höjden.
Lisa Schåman (AX, FI)
is a Stockholm based freelance dancer. Among others she has worked with Ellen Söderhult, Sybrig Dokter, Leah Landau, Oda Brekke and Peter Mills. She received her BA in dance from DOCH/UniArts Stockholm in 2015. In 2020-2021 she studied aesthetics at Södertörn Univeristy. Lisa has an interest in the very frameworks of dance – both concerning the working environment and labour of the freelancer which she has challenged within the organisation INSISTER SPACE, as in the aesthetic framework and the artistic adjacent practices of dance.
Hara Alonso (ES/SE)
is a pianist and composer based in Stockholm. Emerging from a classical contemporary background, in her current practice electronic and instrumental music coexist along with interactive works. Her music blends dance, electronica, and experimental aesthetics generating rich, complex, and imaginative sonic universes. Movement and physicality is a central element in her creation, therefore she collaborates in multiple dance and circus projects. Her work has been presented in multiple festivals and venues as Sound of Stockholm (Sweden), Biennale de Musique en Scène (Lyon, France), S.T.R.E.A.M. Festival (Germany) and Keroxen (Spain). In 2021 her new album for piano and electronics ‘Somatic Suspension’ was released on the label Eotrax.
Mathilde Sundfjord Sæthre (NO)
studies art with specialization in textile at KHIO in Oslo. Working sculpturally with everyday objects and stranger forms. Abstract, organic forms that are undefinably recognisable meets objects that are so familiar they almost become invisible. Through a practice that stays close to materials, she moves things surrounding us out of their functional regime, and thus produce something alien in the familiar and something familiar in the alien. She is behind Makkverk together with Annika Linn Verdal Homme and was part of creating the exibition Maten (the food).
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