︎︎︎ Green asphalt, grey bark
︎︎︎ fictions, stitched
︎︎︎ Steps: A choreographic novel
︎︎︎ Threaded bodies
︎︎︎ On top of things
In fictions, stitched, Max Wallmeier and Maia Means explore the intersections of choreography and fiction with text, dry descriptions, fantasies and lots of paper.
From an interest in how words shape the way we perceive physical realities, the work takes a questioning look at everyday experiences: the weather, the date and how the walls sometimes change meaning. The work has been made in the studio, by digital proximity and via messengers that carried dances across different cities.
It’s about the intimacy and proximity of reading, about giving a dance and telling a story. And always present are the sounds of paper, crumpled.making and transferring the dances, observeing the meeting point between fiction and choreography in the meeting between bodies.
Performances:
Weld, Stockholm, 2023
Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg, 2024 (exhibition)
Videolink: https://vimeo.com/user64905031
CREDITS
Choreographers and performers: Maia Means and Max Wallmeier
Time, space and trust for work: Weld
Folded papers in a pocket, then in a studio in Copenhagen: Karen Eide Bøen
References, a map of a dance and caring attention: Litó Walkey
Folded knees and open (then clenched) palms, laughing while falling to the floor: Tuuli Vahtola
Editing support: Jack Ohlsson
Co-production: Weld
Space, landscape and curiousity: MARC
Space for folding and testing: DC syd
Installation of the blanket: Åben Scene/Godsbanen
Sonic feedback: Dansk Komponistforening
Travels: Konstnärsnämnden
Support for dance messaging: Nordisk Kulturfond
Initiating thoughts and methods: Asaf Aharonsson, Gretchen Blegen and Litó Walkey