Improvisation is a set of techniques used in order to liberate dancers or people from disciplines of choreography, gender, society, sexuality, psychology etc. Improvisation uses dance.
We have a job: not to choreograph, not to improvise, but to reverse the process of liberation. Our job is not to free ourselves from anything at all, but to free dance from us. To give adventure back to dance. One says that an adventure is a journey without destination, like hiking without a map. Any journey can be adventurous but that’s an altogether different ballgame – an adjective is not exactly a noun.
Organisation is a means to locate things, to domesticate and fasten whatever it might be, stuff, phenomena, journeys. Yet, adventures need to be organised and are certainly not about doing what one likes or can. To embark on an adventure is like organising ones own or collective abduction, and mind you: adventure wants a ransom, we just don’t know in what currency or where and when the handover is supposed to happen. Real adventure is always violent but its violence has no particular expression. There is no such thing as adventure technique but there are technologies for both adventure and abduction.
This is a Pro Series in abductive choreography, which implies to terminate choreography as a practice and instead engage in choreography as a technology that exorcise our desire for location, reliability and at the end of the day knowledge as we know it. In other words it is a two-week-long session in improvisation, but mind you: in improvisation not as adjective but straight up noun. It is a Pro Series where we dance no matter what!
Mårten Spångberg
