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Mårten Spångberg, coreografo svedese con un background come critico e teorico, si interessa di coreografia in un terreno espanso, avvicinandola attraverso pratiche di sperimentazione e processi creativi in una molteplicità di formati ed espressioni. Attivo dal 1994 in diverse costellazioni, tra cui International Festival con Tor Lindstrand, ha prodotto lavori contestualizzati prevalentemente nell'ambito della danza, arti visive e architettura. Come performer ha creato proprie coreografie, dai solo a lavori su larga scala presentati a livello internazionale, ed ha collaborato tra gli altri con Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt, Krõõt Juurak, Jan Ritsema. Dal 1996 al 2005 ha organizzato e curato festival in Svezia ed Europa, e nel 2006 ha dato l'avvio al network organizzativo INPEX (con cui ha pubblicato 4 volumi di The Swedish Dance History) e al blog Spangbergianism, poi diventato il libro Spangbergianism - The Book. Ha pubblicato numerosi interventi su riviste e libri ed ha un'esperienza approfondita di insegnamento sia teorico che pratico. Tra le pubblicazioni recenti a sua cura: Post-Dance (2017) e Movement Research (2018). Nel 2008-2012 ha diretto il Master in Coreografia alla University of Dance a Stoccolma, e attualmente insegna drammaturgia e coreografia allla Oslo National Academy of The Arts. Tra i suoi progetti performativi più recenti: Natten, Gerhard Richter. une pièce pour le théâtre, The Nature, La Substance, but in English, The Internet, La Nature IRL, Culture.

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Mårten Spångberg is a multidisciplinary choreographer, curator and writer living and working in Berlin and Stockholm. His interest concerns dance and choreography in an expanded field. Something he has approached through experimental practice in a multiplicity of formats and expressions. While highly concerned with aesthetic experience his research focuses on how art addresses ecology in particular the threshold between the body and knowledge, sensation and value, identity and active forms of anonymity. His performances reflect tensions between social dynamics, the formation of  political movements and Western aesthetics’ linear relation to extractivist capitalism, expecially concerning the gaze and power. He has been active on stage as a performer and creator since 1994, and since 1999 has created his own choreographies, from solos to larger scale works, which have toured internationally. Under the label International Festival, Spångberg collaborated with the architect Tor Lindstrand and engaged in social and expanded choreography,initiating in 2006 the network organization INPEX (that published 4 books of The Swedish Dance History). Spångberg has thorough experience in curating as well as teaching, both practice and theory. From 2008 - 2012 he directed the MA program My Choreography at the Universityof Dance in Stockholm, and he has been guest professor at a number of art academies. He has published extensively both critical texts and fiction, including seminal books such as Spangbergianism (2011), and the edition of the anthologies Post-Dance (2017) and Movement Research (2018).His more recent performances La Substance, but in English, The Internet, Natten, Gerhard Richter. une pièce pour le théâtre, and Skymningen, has gained extensive international recognition. Since 2024 he is the artistic director of Ob/scene Festival in Seoul, Korea. After being committed to conceptual dance in his early career, Mårten Spångberg has developed a rigorous and highly personal relation to dance. Having for a period created extremely loud, spectacular and eruptive work, his art over the last decade inhabit a space of whispering voices, dance as a mode of presence, opening up landscapes of contemplation, mourning and subtle sensualities. His work offers a sustained moment, turning away from the world and giving the individual audience member permission not to consume images or information, not having to respond to prompts or making choices, not to perform roles or engage in processes of confirmation, but instead to surrender to a here and now, to become present to themselves.