"Sweat - The Movie"
The intention is to produce a film telling the story of a workshop for dancers and choreographers, filmmakers, set designers etc., taking place at ImPulsTanz 2008. Participants will function as the film team and as actors in the film and work with all the parameters of film making, thus also with marketing, product placement etc. The workshop will address dance and choreographic practices through a foreign interface as means to deterritorialise what dance can be today. Can film production teach us something about our understanding of dance?
Next to the production process, in which the participants will occupy different positions to learn as much as possible, a series of smaller events will be organised. A number of guests will visit the workshop and add their expertise to the process.
The portrait and the actions will be fictional all in order to create an effective and immersive movie that is understood as a dance and thus it is not the narrative that should stand out but rather the mode of production. The script is not necessarily aiming at originality but towards scenes and material that we recognise. This is not a workshop in which we make film as choreographers, or make art of television, but on the contrary it is a matter of producing a film for the commercialmarket but though a vision of dance that is the one of the contemporary dance community.
In order not to end up with half a film. We have been working on a format that is between television series and a conventional movie. The film will be laid out as episodes that correspond to the four weeks of the festival. Each episode can thus highlight different characters etc.
The film will be edited simultaneously with the shooting and the aim is to premiere the film in the last days of the festival.
Mårten Spångberg about his work
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Mårten Spångberg
Mårten Spångberg works and lives in Brussels and Stockholm. His work starts from choreography but branches out into different forms of expression.
He initiated the Panacea Festivals in Stockholm (1996 - 2001) and co-curated the Body Currency, Wiener Festwochen (1998), Read My Lips, Oslo (1997), the Fourth International Summer Academy, Frankfurt (2002), and CAPITALS Acarte, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, (2002-2003).
He is a frequent essayist and has worked as an opera and dance critic for daily newspapers, such as Aftonbladet (1991-93) and Dagens Nyheter (1993-97).
Mårten Spångberg is founding member of Fame International and has performed a.o. with BDC and Tom Plischke, Xavier Le Roy, Bak-truppen, and Alice Chauchat. He did dramaturgical work for Ina C. Johannessen, I. Bjornsgaard, Angela Guerreiro, Dennis O’Connor, Lilia Mestre/Mette Edvardsen, and Christine de Smedt/Les Ballets C. de la B. His own performance projects are internationally presented: "Avantgarde" (1999), "Recent Works" (2000). In 2001 he choreographed "Break, Intermission, Before and After", a commission for Ballett Frankfurt and Plosion. In 2002 "i.e. All All Over Over All All et.al." and "Artists' talk". In 2005 Tanz im August presented a number of interventions focussing on how choreography and architecture interface in shaping human relations.
He has created several installation works for Marres, Maastricht; Kunstverein Baden Baden and Le Magasin, Grenoble, amongst others..
Mårten Spångberg is Guest Professor at the University of Giessen, Germany; project coordinator at the Art Academy Maastricht and Senior Tutor at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.
Tor Lindstrand
Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) is an architect active in his own office Larsson, Lindstrand and Palme.
He is senior lecturer at the Royal School of Architecture in Stockholm specialised in digitial interfaces for architectural production. He is a pioneer in respect of creative platforms issued for emerging 3D environments. He is the initiator of LOL architects the first large scale online 3D architectural office.
Tor Lindstrand has worked as an artist often together with Mårten Spångberg creating works for both visual and performance art contexts. He is also an editor of Merge Magazine, a magazine on visual culture published in English since 1996.
