Dust Bunny (unworking title) appeared in a remote Greek restaurant on a Swedish island. It clumsily rolls gathering fears, rocks, hope, tears, hairs, and dirt from diverse contexts. It obsessively collects traces from the places it inhabits, from our bodies, and our words, exploring the dusty corners of a disintegrating world. From those corners, it echoes back memories of invisible labour, dreams, and desires hidden in the dust. From those corners, it observes three worlds scrutinized within a collective space, each a microcosm of our collective consciousness. It crumbles with the mundanity of a flor de piel and invites us to contemplate the possibility of a tender dissonance.
We – Stella Kruusamägi (Estonia), Andrea Diaz (Peru), and Nefeli Gioti (Greece)- are three choreographers based in Stockholm. We met each other and started working, thinking, and doing things together while studying the MA in Choreography at SKH (Stockholm University of the Arts). During our studies, we collaborated in various ways in each other’s works. We share a curiosity on collaborative and supportive ways of togetherness. Since 2021, we have been developing in a soft temporality the artistic project (c)leaning together which explores the multifaceted dimensions of cleaning, encompassing the literal, bodily, discursive, and choreographic and considers cleaning as a platform for intimacy and mundanity, from where we can ponder about the necessary acts of maintenance that allow for us to come together and share spaces. The project has evolved through several artistic residencies and participation in the Tantsunädal 2023. Festival in the form of a performance, workshops, and text publications, and Dust Bunny (unworking title) marks the second jointly authored performance after Dust Bunny (working title).