Mårten Spångberg
Indigo Hangout: At the Disco Time is Pitch Black and Universal

Indigo Hangout: At The Disco Time Is Pitch Black and Universal Kids born after 1990, you know, have different aura - it's like indigo. This ProSeries examines relations between dance, choreography and time, through the open question: if our understanding and experience of time changes, what consequences do changes have on dance and choreography? Considering social, political and economical changes in contemporary society over the last decades it is evident that also time - how it unfolds, how we measure it and how we anticipate, divide, spend, waste and economise it - has changed. Theories on performance has since more than twenty years embedded dance in certain, predominantly strategic, understandings of time. But are there others? Can we experiment with dance that gives time (including performativity) the finger and rather than takes time, i.e. demand attention, offers or gives time? Does dance have to break out of the theatre frame in order to approach time different, or can the theatre be the place where time can be given different features. In this ProSeries the group will attempt to step out of the transparency of time and into the mystical domains of duration. On the side there will be a fair amount of Spångbergiansm. Mårten Spångberg is a performance related artist living and working in Stockholm. His interests concern choreography in an expanded field, something that he has approached through experimental practices and creative process in multiplicity of formats and expressions. He has been active on stage as performer and creator since 1994, and since 1999 he has created his own choreographies from solos to larger scale works, which has toured internationally. He has collaboratored with Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C. de la B., Jan Ritsema and Krõõt Juurak a.o. Mårten Spångberg initiated with the architect Tor Lindstrand the International Festival, an interdisciplinary practice merging architecture and choreography/performance. From 1996 - 2005 Spångberg organised and curated festivals in Sweden and internationally and initiated the network organisation INPEX in 2006. His experience in teaching both - theory and practice - is thorough. Mårten Spångberg was director for the MA programme in choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm.