friday 15 april – 7pm>12am

Mårten Spångberg ^(S)

Natten

performance, première

Natten is darker than black. Black is not enough. The black that is the absence of black. It’s not a static darkness that awaits you beyond the light. It is an illuminated lack of light that is alive and grows. A silence that emanate out of a roaring abyss. Natten is the new work by Mårten Spångberg following in the wake of La Substance, but in English and The Internet. This time his crew embark for six or so hours on a journey into the dark, bringing the audience with them into an abstract eternity where the abyss of emptiness come to life awakening the ghosts of presence, the hollowness of decay and erupts in frozen cascades of enigmatic beauty. Natten is the horror of dance and the dance of horror. A whispering curse at the end of times, an experience so dark it must not have happened.

with and by Tamara Alegre, Simon Asencio, Louise Dahl, Emma Daniel, Hana Lee Erdman, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Mårten Spångberg, Else Tunemyr, Alexandra Tveit, Marika Troili
in collaboration with XING Bologna, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Black Box Theatre Oslo, Santarcangelo Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, MDT Stockholm
made possible with the support of PAF St. Erme
supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The Swedish Art Council

Mårten Spångberg, swedish choreographer with a background as a critic and theorist. His interests include choreography in an expanded field, which he has approached through experimental practices and creative processes in a variety of formats and expressions. Active since 1994 in different constellations he has produced works contextualized mainly in the world of dance, visual arts and architecture. As a performer he has created his own choreographies, from solos to larger scale works, which have toured internationally. Under the label International Festival, Spångberg collaborated with architect Tor Lindstrand and engaged in social and expanded choreography. Other collaborations with, among others, Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt, Kroot Juurak, Jan Ritsema. From 1996 to2005 he organised and curated festivals in Sweden and internationally and in 2006 initiated the network organization INPEX (with which he published four volumes of The Swedish Dance History) and the blog Spangbergianism, which later became Spangbergianism – The Book. He has published texts in numerous magazines and books and has extensive experience in teaching both theory and practice. From 2008 to 2012 he directed the MA programme in choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm. Among his most recent performative projects: The Nature, La Substance, but in English, The Internet and Natten.
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