dead dead document
A choreography by Oda Brekke
With the release of the publication No-thing
Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November, 13:00-16:00 both days
Come at 13:00 and spend the three hours with the work.
What happens here
For three hours, the choreography unfolds across all of Skogen’s rooms. There’s no front row and no seat you’re meant to take. You move between the spaces and what is going on in them: eat soup, read, sit and listen. You can sit on the stage, in Samarbetet butik or in the foyer. Movement, text and sound are spread through the building, so what you see and hear depends on where you are and when. The work is meant to be experienced over time, so give it the whole afternoon. You’re free to leave whenever you need to, of course.
You don’t need to know anything about choreography or dance.
What it is
dead dead document is a choreographic project where a publication series follows and traces a choreography without much content. The choreography takes its time and is filled up by the people and places that give it form. It asks how a live work can carry materials across time and place, and how it answers to the memories and expectations of the rooms it enters.
This weekend we celebrate the release of Ingen-tinget/No-thing, an essay by dance artist Lisa Schåman and the second publication in the series, made with the poet Alexander Talts. The publications are hand printed at Skogen Community Press. You can buy them during the weekend, and afterwards in Samarbetet Butik.
About the project
dead dead document was started by choreographer Oda Brekke in 2021 and has since been developed with dance artists Lisa Schåman, Tuuli Vahtola and Maia Means. The group tries to keep alive the experimental state that usually belongs to the start of a project. How do the questions behind a work change in the time between one performance and the next?
It continues Brekke’s research into dance and trace, which earlier took shape in When there’s only surface left (Weld 2021) and Cut: a choreo-essay (Fylkingen 2023).
