The Adventure
In 1996 the first SMS was sent. In 2005 humans around the world sent 300 billion SMS. In 1999 Google open their search engine. Six years later the same webpage handle 150 million queries per day. New modes of communication have changed the world and our ways of living, but what has changed in choreography?
Performance has been a buzzword over the last ten years, in theory, marketing, management as well as in activism, design and identity politics. We are still surfing the wave of the age of performance. What has the position in the centre fold of contemporary culture made to performance as an artistic expression?
The Adventure is a trial and error, hit and run, aim from the hip, close your eyes and do it, over the top, Oh My God, gathering of individuals and groups from radically different fields of expertise sharing a conviction and interest in using performance to change and change performance through new tools and opportunities. A group of creators, doers, thinkers and talkers sharing four weeks of 24/7 creative activity and action, ignoring any decency around dance, form, size. A total sell out in the name of innocence.
The Adventure is a multi lateral framework for knowledge production where each engaged individual function as student, researcher, maintainer, teacher, coach, manager, dancer, choreographer, programmer and uncountable other positions and where everybody engaged can be use and be used for any kind of product. It is also a learning experience unfolding through engaging in our personal and group work in the studio and other place, as well as in a platform related to new interfaces for performance and series of events, lectures and seminars concerning immaterial performance.
The Adventure invites a group (12-15) of choreographers and makers to participate and share with specific expertise from a wide variety of fields. During four weeks the group will produce an abundance of work, representations, shows, stage fights and disco.
An event presented by Mårten Spångberg and International Festival.
A list of guests will be presented soon.
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 a.o. Marres, Maastricht; Kunstverein Baden Baden and Le Magasin, Grenoble.
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.
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