Dance Hub residency Pia Brezavšček at MDT Stockholm

In the frame of the Dance Hub exchange activity, Pia Brezavšček was selected by NDA Slovenia for a residency at MDT Stockholm.

Pia Brezavšček graduated from Philosophy and Art History. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana. Her work includes writing, editing and dramaturgy. Since 2019, she is one of the two editors-in-chief of Maska, performing arts journal and also the editor of a discursive internet platform for local independent performing art.

Pia is the first Curator in residence at the MDT office. The residency is mostly centered around scouting for interesting initiatives, artists and writers in Stockholm for further collaborations with the Maska journal from Slovenia. Maska is a bilingual contemporary performing arts journal that issues three times a year. Last year, already it’s 200th issue was published and it has been 100 years since its first issue (with a gap between the 20’s and 90’s). On this occasion, we held an internationaly symposium Precarity or selfmanagement? in Ljubljana. A theme issue Voice of dance is about to be printed. It was edited together with guest editor, a curator of the festival CoFestival and a member of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, Jasmina Založnik. The next issues we are planning are Police and performance, Yugofuturism II and one on Ecology and dance/performance. The latter theme seems especially present in Sweden’s performing arts scene, so hopefully an international issue with contributors from Stockholm’s artistic/writing scene will be due in a year’s time.

Pia represented the performing arts journal Maska. And the residency was focused on networking and curatorial exchange. Pia had an office space at MDT for nine days as visited several organisations/platforms for choreography and dance in Stockholm.

Pia’s description of the idea with the residency:
The residency is mostly centered around scouting for interesting initiatives, artists and writers in Stockholm for further collaborations with the Maska journal from Slovenia. Maska is a bilingual contemporary performing arts journal that issues three times a year. Last year, already it’s 200th issue was published and it has been 100 years since its first issue (with a gap between the 20’s and 90’s). On this occasion, we held an internationaly symposium Precarity or selfmanagement? in Ljubljana. A theme issue Voice of dance is about to be printed. It was edited together with guest editor, a curator of the festival CoFestival and a member of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, Jasmina Založnik. The next issues we are planning are Police and performance, Yugofuturism II and one on Ecology and dance/performance. The latter theme seems especially present in Sweden’s performing arts scene, so hopefully an international issue with contributors from Stockholm’s artistic/writing scene will be due in a year’s time.

We paired up Pia Brezavšček with Karina Sarkissova, choreographer and curator who made a program for Pia to meet the local scene. Pia met with scholars, artists, got to see performances and went to see exhibitions and got a nice introduction to the field of dance and choreography

View her experience report in the upper right column.