PROGRAMME
SERVICE
For the coming two or so years I’m doing deep-diving into ecology, both concerning the environment, the planet and even global warming and in respect of dance and choreography, and perhaps even art in general. Ecology, in both senses, saving the world and in the sense of determinations of dance.
Dance has many ecologies and they are based on certain determinations of the world, the body, art, science, truth, materiality etc. They largely overlap with determinations of the world, society, communication, law etc.
Now, we can try to save the world by sorting waste and flying less, but we all know that "yeah, good but it will not change the course we have determined for the planet" – we most of all want to save us and the way we are. An alternative is that in order to save the world, we need to change what determines our relation to the world, nature, each other, art, suffering, exploitation, life etc. If we want to save the world with respect of the second, is it then not important to "try" to change what determines dance (and choreography). This workshop/research takes on the dual task of attempting to change the determinations of dance as a way of changing what determines "life" – as well as changing the ecologies of dance, not improving but changing.
Which is in a way what I have done with all my work for many years but now it is a workshop, so it is also a workshop exploring the creativities of Spångberg. It is also, implicitly, an interest in changing the ecology of workshop – teacher/student, speaking/listening, critique/germination etc. In other words, it is also a research into how we can spend time together learning.
