Mårten Spångberg
Dance and Choreography are FINE

Dance and Choreography Are FINE There is no time to waste. Pack your stuff and leave nothing behind. Throw away your pet outfit and burn your address book. The waiting has been to long already. We can’t wait for the new soundtrack. The crusade starts now. Holiday. We take no prisoners, and respond only to unprovoked attacks. We don’t negotiate. We don’t care for revolution. We carry weapons. We are naked. Dance and choreography are fine. We are a war-machine. We are the end of pacifism, a dark shadow. Dance and Choreography Are FINE is a two weeks anti-social gathering struggling - entangled in endless numbers of rules - against artistic freedom and site-specific dance, against social choreography and everything else. We detest reconstruction and practice the dance of the undead. After warming up (youtube yoga) and condemning any kind of collaboration the crusaders will engage in a multiplicity of hyper-opportunistic activities and events in order to unground all forms of stability. We will practice meltdown, hole-complexes and tracelessness, next to bacterial archeology, reversed and alchemic improvisation. Mårten Spångberg 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 has since 1999 created his own choreographies, from solos to works ona larger scale, which have toured internationally. He has collaboratored with among others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B. With the architect Tor Lindstrand he initiated International Festival, an interdisciplinary practice merging architecture and choreography/performance. From 1996 – 2005 Spångberg organised and curated festivals in Sweden and internationally. He initiated the network organisation INPEX in 2006. He has thorough experience in teaching both theory and practice. He is since 2008 director for the MA program in choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm.