MAIA MEANS (NO/DK) is a Stockholm-based freelance dancer who holds a BA in Dance Performance from DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts. Currently she works with choreographers Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde, Halla Olofsdottir & Eliisa Erävalo, Ellard/Lech, and Mette Ingvartsen. Together with Max Wallmeier, she has created two books which are slowly developing into a performance.
Maia is co-editor of the choreographic publication This Container and has created several zines, books and texts which accommodate choreographic proposals. She was part of starting up INSISTER SPACE, a feminist initiative for structures of solidarity within the dance field, and is also in the board of höjden, an interdisciplinary artist-driven workplace in Östberga, Stockholm.
I work between performance, text and organisational practices, all with a strong base in dance. In my work, I like to see choreography as a platform where I and my colleagues can build, map and move realities. It’s important for me that how we work – how we relate to each other and the space we’re in as well as the economic and political structures we create or re-enact – are all acknowledged factors of the final proposal we share with an audience. To work with dance enables me to re-think the world around me from a bodily experience.
Maia is co-editor of the choreographic publication This Container and has created several zines, books and texts which accommodate choreographic proposals. She was part of starting up INSISTER SPACE, a feminist initiative for structures of solidarity within the dance field, and is also in the board of höjden, an interdisciplinary artist-driven workplace in Östberga, Stockholm.
I work between performance, text and organisational practices, all with a strong base in dance. In my work, I like to see choreography as a platform where I and my colleagues can build, map and move realities. It’s important for me that how we work – how we relate to each other and the space we’re in as well as the economic and political structures we create or re-enact – are all acknowledged factors of the final proposal we share with an audience. To work with dance enables me to re-think the world around me from a bodily experience.