MAIA MEANS (NO/DK) is a Stockholm-based freelance dancer who spends time between performance, text and organisational practices. The last years she has worked with choreographers such as Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde, Björn Säfsten, Ellard/Lech and Mette Ingvartsen. Together with Max Wallmeier, she has created two books and the performance “fictions, stitched” that premiered in 2023.
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.