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Margaretha Åsberg, Pyramiderna, 1979

Preface
A series of images colliding – this is how I remember Margaretha Åsberg describing one of her first works, Actions and Events, created for Swedish television in 1972. This dance work used a fragmentary technique, and the idea was that the spectator would understand the message through the very collision of fragments and images (a kind of montage technique from the Soviet revolutionary cinema from the 1920’s). Margaretha Åsberg has developed this collision into a dialogue with the other arts: visual art, music, poetry… And in this dialogue, new thoughts take shape. This is why it is fitting to have a retrospec-tive show with Margaretha Åsberg and her unique oeuvre – one that has startled, confused, and provoked the audience for more than 35 years – as the opening of the autumn season of Galerie Maré, the new exhibition space of the Dance Museum, conceived of as a space-in-movement and as a meeting place for the arts. In this way, we continue to work in the same spirit in which the founder of the museum, Rolf de Maré, worked for his entire life, especially during the five hectic years in the 20’s when he directed the Swedish Ballet in Paris. It became somewhat of a laboratory, dissolving the borders between the arts and merging them into a new type of scenic art, which today we would call a “total theater.”

From Erik Näslunds preface to Space in motion.

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