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Mĺrten Spĺngberg
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Mĺrten Spĺngberg is a past critic. Throughout the nineties he has been writing as a dance critic for the Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet (1991-93) and Dagens Nyheter (1993-97). From 1993 to 2001 he was Nordic correspondent for Ballet International. Besides he published in several specialised art and performance magazines such as ArtGenda Magazine, Art Press, A-Prior, Danstidningen, Endurance Magazine, Fraksija, Material, Merge, MusikDramatik, and Visslingar och Rop. Sarma will present a selection of the reviews written for Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Ballet International. This anthology is supplemented by essays written for other media. |
Biography
Mĺrten Spĺngberg (°1968), lives and works in Berlin as essayist, performance critic, dramaturg and choreographer. After studies in Music, Dance and Theatre Science at the Universities of Uppsala and Stockholm, he started writing as a opera and dance critic for daily newspapers, such as Aftonbladet (1991-93) and Dagens Nyheter (1993-97). Besides he published in several magazines such as ArtGenda Magazine, Art Press, A-Prior, Danstidningen, Endurance Magazine, Fraksija, Material, Merge, MusikDramatik, and Visslingar och Rop, was Nordic correspondent for Ballet International (1993-2001), contributed to books, and wrote catalogue texts for among others Bayerische Staatsballet, Holland Festival, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Cullberg Ballet, Jerôme Bel, Thomas Lehmen and Tino Sehgal.
He is guest professor at the University of Giessen, Dept. of Applied Theatre Studies, and associate teacher of dramaturgy at dance school P.A.R.T.S, Brussels. As curator, he initiated the Panacea Festivals in Stockholm (1996-2001) and co-curated the Body Currency, Wiener Festwochen (1998), Read My Lips, Oslo (1997), the fourth International Summer Academy, Frankfurt (2002), and CAPITALS Acarte, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, (2002-2003).
His collaborations as performer include the collective Fame Internationale, BDC and Tom Plischke, Xavier Le Roy, Bak-truppen, and Alice Chauchat. He did dramaturgical work for Ina C. Johannessen, I. Bjornsgaard, Angela Guerreiro, Dennis OConnor, Lilia Mestre/Mette Edvardsen, and Christine de Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B. His own performance projects are internationally presented: Avantgarde (1999), Recent Works (2000), Plosion (2001), i.e. All All Over Over All All et.al. (2002), Artists talk (2002). In 2001 he choreographed on commission Break, Intermission, Before and After for Ballett Frankfurt.
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Bibliography
Rörelsens Ensamhet in Det andra rummet, en nordisk antologi om scenografisk konst ed. Ingamaj Beck & Claus Lynge, (Symposion,1997)
Plosion in Steven De Belder en Koen Tachelet (eds.) Het zout der aarde. Over dans, politiek en werkelijkheid/ The salt of the earth. On dance, politics and reality, 2001, Brussel, Vlaams Theater Instituut
True Truth About the Nearly Real. 4th International Summer Academy, Mousonturm, Frankfurt ed. F. Malcacher, C. Peters, M. Spĺngberg (Mousonturm, 2002)
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Poetics
"The name of the choreography is called 'Critique'."
"Oh, that's the name of the choreography, is it?", the Reader said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Critic said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is 'Critique'."
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the choreography is called'?", the Reader corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The choreography is called 'Critique': but that's only what it's called, you know!"
"Well, what is the choreography, then?" said the Reader, who was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Critic said. "The critique really is 'A-Critique' "
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