Pontus Pettersson

Pontus Pettersson is working on "MOPA - the last stand" while in residency with MDT.

"MOPA – The Last Stand" is the third and final part of the MOPA trilogy, a trilogy which has been in the making for ten years. In this work, choreographer and artist Pontus Pettersson returns to the classic choreographic tools: time and space. His cat and water practices, two practices he has worked on for a long time, shape the work’s stories, bodies and choreography. Pettersson moves seamlessly between choreography, the ephemeral and curatorial practices – always conceptually strong and often with humour and a playful agenda. Here, in addition to choreographing the performance, his all encompassing artistry is put into practice through the costume design as well as the scenography. 

In "MOPA – The Last Stand", Pontus Pettersson looks both forward, back and beyond. Here, dancing is a  myth in the making. Like a photocopy slowly developing in the darkroom, while the image emerges, we ask ourselves the question: How can we find our way back to collective thinking and dance as doing?