dead dead document
dead dead document gathers together dance, text and sound, all of which carry memories from a process fragmented between differing times and places. The work asks questions about the aftermath of dance and plays with objectmaking as a means of noticing that which lives in its periphery.
The three hour long choreography invites the audience to attend to positions and perspectives, as they get implicated in a room that is shifting.
By explicit relation to each place where the performance unfolds dead dead document attends to histories by details. The work is presented in collaboration with already existing archives and libraries which gives each reiteration of the work a variation in form.
dead dead document is a project that studies dance, its aesthetic, contextual and material circumstances through the notion of porousness. The publication It Absorbs: On Dance As a Porus Art Object is made available for the audience to read during the performance.
Photo: Nadja Voorham
Choreography and sound: Oda Brekke
Performed by, made with Lisa Schåman and Tuuli Vahtola
Costume and conversation Ida Sidenvall
Light Jonatan Winbo
Sound mentoring Scott Cazan
Production Interim Kultur
Co-production and premiere MDT-Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm 2024. Presented with MDTs zine archive and the Reading Edge Library.
Thanks to Stina Ehn, Eva Meyer Keller, Tuija Roberntz and Anders Paulin.
On tour
25-26.10.2025 Oktoberdans BIT teatergarasjen, Universitetsbiblioteket, Bergen, Norway
Residencies
01-30.07.2022 Ufer Studios (Berlin, Germany)
06-12.02.2022 Bergen Dansesenter (Bergen, Norway)
28.11-13.12.2021 Veem House for Performance (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Other presentations
27.08.2022 WIP at Dans en fest, BIT teatergaragen/Carte Blanche/Bergen Dansesenter (Bergen, Norway)
Supported by The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, The Norwegian Art Council, Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation and Bergen Dansesenter.
Photo: Nadja Voorham
Gry Tingskog, Alexis Steves and Sara Kaaman on dead dead document / Ravel Review
Interview by Izabella Borzecka/ Reading Edge/MDT
Interview by Lies Mensink/Veem House for Performance