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, Björn Säfsten and Mette Ingvarsen. Together with Max Wallmeier, she has created two books which are slowly developing into a performance.
Means is co-editor of the choreographic publication This Container and has created several zines, books and texts which accomodate choreographic proposals. She was part of starting up INSISTER SPACE, a feminist initiative for structures of solidarity within the dance field, and is currently active there with the initiatve Dance Forecast, an equalizing calendar and autonomous information platform. She is also in the board of höjden, an interdisciplinary artist-driven workplace.
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 and the economic and political structures and discourse we create or re-enact – are all aqnowledged 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.
Means is co-editor of the choreographic publication This Container and has created several zines, books and texts which accomodate choreographic proposals. She was part of starting up INSISTER SPACE, a feminist initiative for structures of solidarity within the dance field, and is currently active there with the initiatve Dance Forecast, an equalizing calendar and autonomous information platform. She is also in the board of höjden, an interdisciplinary artist-driven workplace.
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 and the economic and political structures and discourse we create or re-enact – are all aqnowledged 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.