Mårten Spångberg
Geo-trauma Dance

Geo-trauma Dance When the enemy and opportunity for emancipation is one of the same, when city and desert overlap, when identity and fear has both become corporatised, we must engage in the inhuman, the production of choreography without subjectivity, an object dance. In this ProSeries Project the group engage in a twofold practice producing choreography out of necessity rather than negotiation, dislocating aesthetic judgement and the relation between production of movement and language. The introduction of a double threshold aims at the destruction of oppositions between state and nomad, soldier and mercenary, dog and dragon insisting on the emergence of an "authentic" production: a geo-traumatic dance taking place in the incision when inert earth allowed for movement to take place. The practical and in depth physical starting point, concerned with the production of a possessed community through ritual and voodoo, will be accompanied with discussions and theoretical application. The ProSeries Project will end with a public presentation. 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 larger scale works, which has toured internationally. He has collaboratored with among others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B, Jan Ritsema, Krõõt Juurak, 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 programme in choreography at the Univ. of Dance in Stockholm.