Mårten Spångberg
| Created by: | Tamara Alegre, Simon Asencio, Linda Blomqvist, Louise Dahl, Emma Daniel, Hana Lee Erdman, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Mårten Spångberg, Else Tunemyr, Marika Troili and Alexandra Tveit |
| Starring: | Tamara Alegre, Mårten Spångberg, Liza Baiasnaja, Sidney Barnes, Marika Troili, Else Tunemyr, Emma Daniel and Alexandra Tweit |
| With special thanks to: | Liza Penkova for providing the main dance material for Natten. |
| Natten was developed in collaboration with: | A group of P.A.R.T.S students. Our time together was extraordinary. Many thanks to Liza Baliasnaja, Nikita Chumakov, Sien Van Dycke, Akiyoshi Nita, Eileen Van Os, Laura Maria Poletti, Kamola Rashidova and Adriano Vicente |
| Acknowledgements: | Mette Edvardsen, Linda Blomqvist, Silvia Fanti, Silvia Bottiroli, Tove Dahlblom, Maria Jerez, Alejandra Pombo, Christophe Slagmuylder, Jon Resdal Moe, Danjel Andersson, Ben Woodard and Christian Töpfner |
| Premiere: | Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Les Brigittines |
| In collaboration with: | Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Xing (Bolonia), Black Box Teater (Oslo), Santarcangelo Festival and MDT Estocolmo |
| This piece was made possible thanks to: | PAF St. Erme |
| With the support of: | The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Stockholm. |
| The Madrid performance of the piece enjoys the support and collaboration of La Casa Encendida | |
Natten is a Swedish term for action that takes place at night. And for choreographer, visual artist and dance theorist Mårten Spångberg, the night is the only time when man can show his true self, escape the tyranny of time and surrender to a darkness that represents not death but life.
In an almost-seven-hour performance—the audience can enter and leave whenever they like—Spångberg presents us with a peculiarly macabre form of dance. A journey into the depths of the night, toward an abstract eternity and unfathomable depths. There the audience can look, dream, sleep... but they must also face their own monsters. The aim is for the spectator to experiment with the concept of absolute nothingness, or a nothingness that cannot be named, in a dark cavern where in the middle of an artificial night, nine dancers perform dance pieces choreographed with horror stories.
Natten aims to play with dance, fear, darkness, horror and that which is profoundly unknown in a way that it is anything but terrifying. Or at last not in the classic sense. A reflection on the night but also on that part of it that illuminates us most.