On the condition of dance (2015 and into the future)

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On the condition of dance (2015 and into the future)
Marten Spångberg: workshop and performance

Curated by Joe Moran

Workshop: Sat 4 – Sun 5 July, 11am-6pm, £80 funded places/£60 for independent/ self-employed/ concessions (including performance)

Performance: Fri 3 July, 7pm, £8/ £7 concessions

Workshop:
On the condition of dance
Marten Spångberg workshop
Workshop: Sat 4 – Sun 5 July, 11am-6pm, £80/£60

‘Bad boy of contemporary dance’ (The Guardian), Mårten Spångberg the leads a weekend workshop as part of choreographer Joe Moran’s yearlong research, Why Everyone Wants What We’ve Got. Integrating studio practice, conversation and theory, the workshop is an opportunity to think together about the possibilities and location of contemporary aesthetic experience.

‘Full workshop days, on contemporary aesthetic experience, it’s possibility and location in contemporary dance and the museum meets dance, occasion, occupation object. Studio theory, practice meets thinking together’ – Mårten Spångberg

Workshops bookings:

Workshop places are offered by application. To apply please send a short statement outlining your practice and interest in the workshop to info@joemorandance.com

Workshop bookings dates:

Applications open – Monday 1 June
Application deadline – Monday 22 June

Prices:
£80 – Funded places
£60 – Independent/ self-employed/ concessions

Performance:
Powered by Emotion
Mårten Spångberg performance
UK premiere: Fri 3 July, 7pm, £8/ £7 concs

Powered by Emotion is a 45-minute solo created and performed by Mårten Spångberg. It originated from a desire to dance and sing without having access to skill and technical capacity in relationship to the production of, on the one hand, territory and, on the other, perhaps more tangible, notions of identity and belonging. Starting with an interest between territory and political potentiality, the choreographer explores two over-determined artistic materials Walter Verdin’s film of Steve Paxton’s dance to J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the songs of Buena Vista Social Club. Through the performers inability and nonplussed relation to the material it appears that the spectator is urged to reconsider a politics of aesthetics. What we see and hear both is and isn’t Stave Paxton dancing and Buena Vista Social Club voicing sentimental love. Powered by Emotion is utter artificiality in its most natural form.

The performance is followed by short conversation between Spångberg and Moran ‘on the condition of dance, 2015 and into the future’.

Performance bookings:
Call Chisenhale Dance Space on 020 8981 6617

This project is supported by Chisenhale Dance Space’s Allotment programme – nurturing projects where artists take the lead.