pocket phrases



by and with  Stina Ehn & Oda Brekke


photo by Olle Ehn Hillberg 




pocket phrases is a series of dances approached with an interest in systematic processes of creation, where producing comes first and analyzing later.

pocket phrases is a performance where the audience is invited to witness two performers pace through a series made up of singular parts. Each of them offers a sense of its own; a particular universe of figures, rhythms, and steps.

pocket phrases asks what happens to a form when it is doubled, repeated and reoriented.

pocket phrases takes place outdoors in a place where the public seeps in. It needs a frame, but does not have a ceiling.

pocket phrases lets the softness of skin and tissues meet the hardness of asphalt and stone. It invites people to come closer to a place and to spend time with details.

pocket phrases is a project that continues, a collaborative study of what comes out of dance when it gets a determined form without aiming at determined meaning or sense.




Past performances

26 March 2022 Danserom, Marinehallen. Bergen Norway  (performed by Oda Brekke and Tuuli Vahtola)
24+25 September 2021 Dance Cooperative. Copenhage, Denmark

Residency
13-19 Sep 2021 Kunsthuset Wrap. Bergen, Norway


Supported by Slots og kulturstyrelsen (Denmark)