Oda Brekke

Vi är otroligt glada över att samarbetet med koreograferna och dansarna Stina Ehn och Oda Brekke fortsätter under våren. Nästa vecka har deras dansföreställning Soft Machines / du står utanför med en penna premiär i husets stora sal! Datum: 23 och 24 maj Tid: 15.00 Stina och Odas koreografiska samarbete utgår från metodiska framgångssätt där dansandet och skrivandet närmar sig relationen mellan kropp och plats. De är intresserade av hur upprepandet av mönster i samhällets fysiska och sociala strukturer tar sig in i och genom kroppen och ger form till möten med andra. Under 2023 var Oda en av de danskonstnärer som arbetade på huset genom residenset Arbetsplats för dans och scenbaserade uttryck. Under våren har hon tillsammans med Stina hållit studiecirkeln Koreografi: att skriva rörelse där de tillsammans med deltagarna undersökt och diskuterat hur staden, kroppen och politikens rörelser kan förstås som både skrivna och omskrivbara. Mer information och biljetter via medboragrhuset.se

Studiecirkel: Koreografi: att skriva rörelse I den här cirkeln lär vi oss metoder för att arbeta med koreografisk praktik. Vi kommer att närma oss koreografibegreppet genom dess etymologiska betydelse (att skriva rörelse) och diskutera hur staden, kroppen och politikens rörelser kan förstås som både skrivna och omskrivbara. Cirkeln utgår från konstnärliga och lekfulla förslag där vi experimenterar med text och utforska dess potential att forma sociala relationer. Genom olika skrivövningar kommer vi att uppmärksamma kropp och rum, tillsammans i grupp och individuellt. Vi kommer lära oss metoder för att bearbeta text med syfte att skapa koreografiska instruktioner och partitur Ingen förkunskaper krävs. Cirkeln leds av koreograferna och dansarna Stina Ehn och Oda Brekke. Datum: 3/2, 17/2, 3/3, 17/3, 31/3, 14/4 Tid: 18.00 - 19.30 Anmälan görs på medborgarhuset.se Studiecirklarna på Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus görs i samarbete med ABF Stockholm

Welcome to 'Staged', a series of choreographed conversations starting up at höjden studios this fall! Save the dates; Wednesday 8 October and Thursday 13 November 19:00. With an interest in the conversation as a site for engaging in a process with unknown results, a potential for both undoing and producing discourse, this initiative wishes to be a commonplace for testing, sharing and developing language and thought in relation to artistic practice. Each conversation gathers artists working with performance around a theme or material. Through a procedure specific to each conversation the guests are invited to discuss their methods and experience. 'Staged' experiments with the particular conditions and possibilities for participating and listening to a conversation in public today. It aims to be both a playful and critical tool to practice and embrace the difficulty and failure that talking and listening in public often entails. If staging something means to raise the floor, to style and enhance attractiveness, can you stage a conversation whilst also committing to its movement away from what you know? A movement away from yourself? The conversation series is initiated and facilitated by choreographer Oda Brekke With support from Stockholm Stad

Tilgjengelig i butikk og nettbutikk! It Absorbs: On Dance as a Porous Art Object is a publication from Skogen Community Press and a collaboration between dance artist Maia Means and Oda Brekke. It features an essay written by Brekke alongside the making of the piece dead dead document that premiered at MDT in Stockholm 2024 where the publication was presented together with the Reading Edge Library. The text traces contextual and material histories that the work engages with and questions the relationship between dance as artistic practice, place and an economy that force us to move on. Bidragsytere: Alice MacKenzie Edith Ekström @edithekstromm Nina Ohlson Lisa Schåman @lisamariamagdalena Maia Means @maiameans Oda Brekke @odabrekk Stina Ehn Tuuli Vahtola @tuulivahtola

DANCEWORK, an exhibition of dances and work(s)! Date: Wednesday 28 May Time: 19:00–21:00 Place: Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7, Stockholm Rooted in questions of value, labour, and precarity, DANCEWORK examines what is at stake when a single body initiates, curates, and performs the work. There will be dances/ choreographies / works by Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde, Maja Hannisdal, Stina Nyberg, Ellen Söderhult, Deborah Hay, and Freddy Houndekindo- danced by Unn Faleide. Curated by: Unn Faleide Light and sound: Patsy Lassbo With support from: Stockholm University and Weld Bring your friends, kids and family <3 Free admission! @majahannisdal @ellensoderhult @fry_hdko @odabrekk @laserbov @hotskate14 @laupersindri @weld_insta @kulturestetik

Developing material that I tested at first run stockholm 27.03.25 A new solowork is in process. Thank you for this frame Leah Landau and Lilian Steiner, and to everyone who has shared your thoughts and helped me understand what I might be up to. Thank you Bergen dansesenter for hosting me the past two weeks. @first_run_sthlm @leah_landau @liliangrace @darko_dragicevic @kareneideboen @ccap_sthlm @bergendansesenter

Maska journal Issue 220-221 Thank you Pia Brezavšcek for the invitation and editorial process! 'Towards an aesthetic commoning' thinks with many contextual initiatives run by artists like @hojdenstudios @imaginativecc PIM and PAF. Thank you to everyone who keeps up this kind of work. Order the number or subscribe @zavod.maska /maska.si

It Absorbs: On Dance as a Porous Art Object is an essay written alongside the making of the piece dead dead document. The essay is published as a hand printed publication made in collaboration with Maia Means. Can the notion of Porousness work as an image through which we can understand the relation between dance and place? The essay aims to articulate the importance of the people and ideas that accompany dance making and traces a process in conflict with an economy that force dance artists to move on. Published 2024 Skogen, Gothenburg Text Oda Brekke Photos Lisa Schåman, Tuuli Vahtola and Oda Brekke Advice from Edith Ekström Design Maia Means Hand printed by Maia Means, Oda Brekke, Stina Ehn and Jack Ohlson at Skogen Community press on Scandia 2000 with Risograph and Kyocera Advice from Klas Trollius Supported by Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse @skogen_masthuggsterrassen @maiameans

dead dead document is a three hour long performance that invites an audience to attend to a series of positions and perspectives, as they get implicated in a room that is shifting. The choreography combines actions like staying and list making in order to adress the aftermath of dance, and to notice that which lives in its periphery. By explicit relation to place dead dead document attends to the historical by detail and opens up a space where fragments can resonate. 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. Thanks to Stina Ehn, Eva Meyer Keller, Tuija Roberntz and Anders Paulin. Supported by The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, The Norwegian Arts Council, Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation and Bergen Dansesenter. In residence at Uferstudios Berlin, Veem House For Performance, höjden studios and Bergen Dansesenter @lisamariamagdalena @tuulivahtola @idasidenvall @jonatanwinbo @scazan @mdtsthlm @uferstudios_tanz_berlin @veem.house @bergendansesenter @hojdenstudios @swedish_arts_grants_committee @kulturdir

Can the manifesto teach us to articulate artistic practice in relation to the current politics and a history where a lot of things have already been said? Is the manifesto a dusty and canonical form or does it still have relevance today? Join the study group from monday on for a collective reading and writing session where copy and play will be our means to test the boldest language and the wildest ideas. Dates: Mon 16 Sept Mon 7 Oct Mon 4 Nov Mon 11 Nov Mon 2 Dec Mon 9 Dec Time: 17:30-19:30

2. How does it shape the way we dwell? Sonja Lindgren and Oda Brekke The second episode of drift dialogues starts in the middle of a practice. Sonja comes from architecture and Oda from dance, they discover they share many interests, but use different words. In this conversation they complicate each other's means of making sense of life, work and art in a society where consumption controls the way we see things. How can ideas and methods alter our perception? What are the limits of the formats we use when we work and how do they form the potential for thinking and memorizing? During November 2023 they met several times over a pile of papers and books in höjdens studio. Listen to them read, describe and discuss their own work as well as texts and performances by other artists and thinkers. Read more about the artists, drift dialogues and listen at höjdens webpage (link in bio)! drift is produced by Oda Brekke and Scott Cazan Mastering by Foad Arbabi Graphics by Edith Ekström Supported by Kulturrådet @scazan @sonjalindgrn @odabrekk @satmara @omgfoad @kulturradet.se

photo @nandyhopper I am so grateful to everyone who had their hands in the production of 'dead dead document', and very proud of the work we made together. Thank you @lisamariamagdalena and @tuulivahtola for this process of dancemaking and co-thinking. Thank you for your poetry, for your intellectual engagement, risk-taking and playfullness in performance. Thank you @idasidenvall and @jonatanwinbo for understanding the work so well (sometimes when I didn't) you amplified it so clearly with detailed choices in light and costume. Thank you @scazan for teaching me about spatial acoustics, how to work with recordings, editing and setting it up beyond the standard. Thank you @maiameans for your sharp work with producing, editing, printing the publication 'It Absorbs: On Dance as a Porous Art Object' and for holding my hand. Thank you @alice_mackenzie_ for proof, @satmara for advice, @adrianowjensen and paf issues for text feedback. Thank you Klas Trollius and @skogen_masthuggsterrassen Community press for tools and support, @stina__eh and Jack Ohlson for helping hands. Thank you @readingedge_ and @izabella.borzecka for the collaboration on the reading room and co-thinking along the way. Big thanks to @mdtsthlm and @annaefraimsson for believing in this vague pile of ideas some years ago and for the support and work of all MDTstaff. Special thanks to @unzter our producer, for bringing all the pieces together and for cooling down some stress when needed. Thank you @annakontiki and Lizette Rönnkvist at Interim kultur for production, master problem solving and keeping the records. Thank you @bergendansesenter , @uferstudios_tanz_berlin , @veem.house and @hojdenstudios for supporting the process through rooms and contexts which this work completely depends on. Thank you @swedish_arts_grants_committee , Swedish Finish cultural foundation, Helge Ax:son Jonson Stiftelse and @kulturdir for financial support. Thank you @tuijaroberntz , @anders_paulin and @evamkr for conversation and feedback. Last but not least thank you @stina__eh for unconditional emotional and technical support 💓