The choreographer Mårten Spångberg opens Arsenic’s season 17/18 with La Substance, but in English, the flagship work of his repertoire. In this context, Arsenic invites him to give a two-day workshop held in English and open to both professional and non-professional.

“HAVE YOU HEARD KENDRICK LAMAR’S NEW ALBUM. REALLY CRAZY.”
This really is a workshop but it is also the making of a piece. Not like as in the making of, but seriously make a piece. It’s not a production but totally a workshop. It’s called a workshop but that’s not the name of the piece. The name of the piece is too early to say. It’s too early to say is what it is but that’s not it’s name, and what it is called is workshop. Somewhere between Peter Sellars and Alice in Wonderland and sitting on a fence. For a few days we will work together, and nobody will be left behind. We will all sit on a fence and make things and a rather long dance too. And we will show it to a lot of people that will all like it but not admire us afterwards. Minimally interesting like is should be. At the end we perhaps just show it to ourselves.
(Mårten Spångberg)

INFORMATIONS
SAT 23 SEP 14:00 – 20:00
SUN 24 SEP 10:00 – 18:00
Price : CHF 100.- (entry of the show included)
Registration by mail : maude.herzog@arsenic.ch
Workshop held in English
Open to all, both professional and non-professional
Places are limited

PRESS
“Mårten Spångberg, the Bad boy of contemporary dance” (The Guardian)
“Kicking Back: Nature of Choreography Revised, With Beer Cans” (The New York Times)

BIOGRAPHY
Mårten Spångberg (born in 1968) is a choreographer whose interest concerns dance 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 been creating his own choreographies, from solos to larger scale works, which have toured internationally. His theoretic approach, close to that of the speculative realist movement, shakes up the genre with its riotous methods. His first book, Spangbergianism, was published in 2011. He lives and works in Brussels and Stockholm