Mårten Spångberg (b. 1968) is a multidisciplinary choreographer 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.
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.
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 University of Dance in Stockholm, and he has been guest professor in the university Giessen as well as The National Academy of The Art, Oslo. He has been published extensively and his first book Spangbergianism was published in 2011.
His more recent performances La Substance, but in English, The Internet, Natten and Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre has gained extensive international recognition. His current work concerns ecology and post-anthropocene aesthetics.
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Mårten Spångberg is a Swedish choreographer working and living Berlin. With an interest in the structural specificities of choreography his work is interdisciplinary spanning from dance and writing to visual media, in particular painting. Thematically his work address ecology in an expended sense confronting Western aesthetic’s correlation with extractivist capitalism and simultaneously arguing against the ongoing culturalization of art. He is a diligent cultural critic and have published several books.
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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, especially concerning the gaze and power.
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Mårten Spångberg (geb. 1968) ist ein multidisziplinärer Choreograf und Autor der in Berlin und Stockholm lebt und arbeitet. Sein Interesse gilt Tanz und Choreografie in einem expandierten Feld dem er sich durch experimentelle Praxis in einer Vielzahl von Formaten und Ausdrucksformen nähert.
Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Ökologie, queer imagination und post-anthropozäner Ästhetik.
Seine neueren Aufführungen La Substance, but in English, The Internet, Natten und Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre haben international große Anerkennung gefunden. Sein Fokus liegt auf dem transformativen Potenzial der Kunst und ihrer Fähigkeit neue Formen ermächtigender Bilder zu projizieren.
Seit 1994 ist er als Performer und Schöpfer auf der Bühne aktiv und kreiert seit 1999 eigene Choreografien von Soli bis hin zu größeren Werken die international tourten.
Unter dem Label International Festival arbeitete Spångberg mit dem Architekten Tor Lindstrand zusammen und engagierte sich in sozialer und erweiterter Choreografie.
Spångberg verfügt über umfassende Erfahrung im Kuratieren und Lehren sowohl in der Praxis als auch in der Theorie. Von 2008 - 2012 leitete er den MA-Studiengang My Choreography an DOCH, Stockholm und war Gastprofessor an der Universität Gießen, sowie an der National Academy of The Art Oslo. Derzeit ist er Professor an der HEAD Genf.
Er wurde umfangreich veröffentlicht, das erste Buch Spangbergianism wurde 2011 veröffentlicht, Natten (2016), They Were Thinking (2021).