Heja Sverige (Go Sweden)

Heja Sverige (Go Sweden) by Mårten Spångberg (Sweden). Swedish folk dance, Jerry Lewis' burlesque facial expressions, bird song, and Jan Johansson. These are ingredients describing Mårten Spångberg's performance Heja Sverige (Go Sweden). Accompanied by Jan Johannson's Jazz på Svenska Spångberg dives into the tradition of improvisation. Put off the city and join a research trip to the land of dance and choreography!

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(Objekt ID 4331)
Object type Production
Coproducers MDT
Keywords Dance, Contemporary dance

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Heja Sverige is located somewhere between expression and form, where the weak tonalities of emerging dance seep out. This is dance for which the body delivers the terms, dance we all know about, but none of us has seen.

Spångberg takes us beyond geometry, diagonals and conventions into a humorous, absolutely unforgettable research journey into the landscape of dance and choreography.

Three years after the successful performance Powered by Emotion, Mårten Spångberg is back with Heja Sverige (Go Sweden), a performance with starting point in Sweden and Swedish dance traditions. Accompanied by Jan Johansson's Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish), followed by Swedish folk dances Mårten Spångberg seizes the improvisational tradition of dance in a headstrong way.

Like Lewis Carroll's crew is searching for the Snark the dancer is in Heja Sverige searching for a dance that all of us know about, but no one has seen. Heja Sverige is a dance of singulars, singulars without identity. A dance of the skin that captures, as if by surprise, the movements of secret facts, of unknown stages in the formation of things.

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2006. 12.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/64

Contributors (3)
Name Role
Mårten Spångberg – Choreography
Tor Lindstrand – Video/Film
Mårten Spångberg – Performer
Performance dates
October 21, 2006 13:00 Show
Festivals (1)
Oktoberdans October 21, 2006