“dead dead document” is a choreography including a publication release in collaboration with the Reading edge library.
Across three hours, “dead dead document” opens up a space within and between the two studios on the ground floor of MDT, once constructed for the Swedish Navy at Östra Brobänken. The audience is invited to spend time with dance and text, come and go, read and eat soup.
Here a range of materials co-exist in choreography that gathers together dance, text and sound, all of which carry memories from a process fragmented between differing times and places. The work was initiated by Brekke back in 2021 and since then it has been developed with dance artists Lisa Schåman, based in Stockholm and Tuuli Vahtola based in Helsinki. The group has researched ideas and developed practices that centre forms of waste and byproducts as resilient actors and poetic landscapes.
“dead dead document” asks questions about when the dance begins and ends, and experiments with critical and playful approaches to the problem of documenting and archiving dance. “dead dead document” is a continuation of the choreographer Oda Brekke’s inquiry into dance and its production of traces that has taken earlier form through pieces such as “When there’s only surface left”(2021) and “Cut: a choreo-essay” (2023).
ODA BREKKE (SE/NO) is a dance artist based in Stockholm, working internationally as a choreographer, writer and performer. Her work is characterized by a material approach to perception, favoring detail to total overview. She is curious of dwelling with rooms and the things inhabiting them– tricking the sense of linear time and utilitarian relationships to objects. Her work When there’s only surface left premiered at Weld 2021 and has been presented at the festival IMPROSPEKCIJE at Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Bergen Kjøtt, Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen and höjden studios. She was part of the editorial team behind the publication Art as Practice|Art as Object published by Skogen in Gothenburg 2020. Oda is a co-founder of the collective studio space höjden in Stockholm, a collegial platform and common resource for autonomous production and artistic exchange since 2019.