Spreafico Eckly was founded by Andrea Spreafico in Bergen in 2013 in the apartment of Andrea Spreafico and Caroline Eckly, where it still has its HQ – hence the name. Directed by Andrea, the company has never had a fixed group of collaborators, but the team of each piece has been decided accordingly to the needs of the concept. Nonetheless some patterns have repeated themselves and Matteo Fargion (London) and Theater Replacement (Vancouver) have become important partners in the development of the artistic discourse of the company. The forms of expression are different every time (songs, choreographies, theory, drama, opera, interactive situations). Most of Spreafico Eckly's works treat one element from the past in order to re-consider the way we usually watch at our present time. They are thought of as breaks (pauses) in the constant flow of information, as ways to reconsider our present without "taking position" against it, as models of an alternative way of thinking about our time. Before working as an artist Andrea Spreafico has been a Nietzsche scholar (PhD at University of Bologna, Italy and Reims, France in 2006). He's currently Associate Professor in performance at the Bergen School of Architecture.
Performances
2023
- 25-26.10 Durante and the Bad Loves (Purgatorio X-XXVI), Meteor, Bergen
- 14-15.10 Durante and the Bad Loves (Purgatorio X-XXVI), Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
- 22-23.03 Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera at FOG/Triennale di Milano
2022
- 03.09—13.11 Poor Dictionary (From Distance to Rage), Galleri Entrée, Bergen
- 23-24.09 Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera at Ultima / National Theater Oslo / Black Box Oslo
- 21.09 We have to dress gorgeously at Teatro Rasi, Ravenna
- 07-08.06 Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera at Festspillene i Bergen / Bit-Teatergarsjen
2021
- 15-16.10 Danced Work in Progress III at RAS/Kunstmuseum Stavanger
- 18-19.09 Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera at Rosendal Teater
- 23-24.04 Footnote Number 12 at Shadbolt Center, Burnaby (live streaming)
- 05-07.03 Danced Work in Progress II at Bit-Teatergarasjen/Kode4
2020
- 26-27.10. Danced Work in Progress I at Oktoberdans/Kode2
- 13-14.06: The October revolution took place in November at Dance Elargie, Theater de la Ville de Paris (digital)
- 6-8.02 Footnote Number 12 at PuSh Festival, Vancouver (Canada)
- 16-18.01 Footnote Number 12 at High Performance Rodeo Calgary (Canada)
2019
- 19-20.10 Footnote Number 12 at Meteor Festival, Bergen
- 07.10 Tupperware Party at Prøverommet/Belgin, Bergen
- 26.09-13.10 Good morning Milton Keynes! Oh it's afternoon, Creative Urban Living's Crossroads, Milton Keynes (UK)
- 20-21-09 We have to dress gorgeously, Nouvelle Scene Nationale de Cergy-Pontoise (France)
- 16-17.09 Footnote Number 12 at Bastard Festival, Teater Rosendal, Trondheim
- 11-16.08 Footnote Number 12, at Summerworks, Toronto (preview)
- 12-13.03 We have to dress gorgeously at Oslo Internasjonal Teaterfestival, Oslo
- 10.03 We have to dress gorgeously at Borealis Festival for experimental music, Bergen
2018
- 25.05 Vive la Phrance at Studiobühne Köln
- 25.01 What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at Performance entities in Nuremberg
2017
- 25.11 Vive la Phrance at Black Box Teater Oslo
- 22-23-10 Vive la Phrance at Meteor, BIT-Tetatergarasjen Bergen
- 20-21.09 Vive la Phrance at Teater Avantgarden Trondheim
2016
- 7.11 – What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at Dansefestival Barents
- 30.10 – What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at Small Projects Tromsø
- 9-10.03 – What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at Black Box Oslo
2015
- 24.10, What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at Meteor, Bit-Teatergarasjen, Bergen
- October What a classic is and how it performs in (our) time at 4+4 festival, Prague
2014
- 10.10pm – At the End of Your Fork, Oktoberdans, Bergen
- 13.05 Catholic 1991, BIT-Teatergarasjen, 25-26 April 2014
Publications
Books
- – Andrea Spreafico, Cristian Stefanescu (ed.) This place is pretty good, Bergen, BAS editions, 2017
- – Siri Borten, Andrea Spreafico, Cristian Stefanescu (ed.) Think it Yourself!, Bergen, BAS editions, 2014.
- – Forschungsgruppe_f, Little. Conditions 2005-2008, Munchen, Verlag Silke Schreiber, 2008.
- – Utvanning som forsterkning, norsk shakespeare tidsskrift, nr 2-3, 2017.
- – Participatory design as tailoring, MONU #23, Rotterdam, 2015.
- – Dog-thoughts on Hokoës, in Hordaland Kunstsenter: Retrospektiv Katalog 2011.
- – Andrea Spreafico, The Honesty of the Strong. Power in Nietzsche's Philosophy, Genoa, il Melangolo, 2008.
- – Manlio Iofrida, Francesco Cerrato, Andrea Spreafico (ed.) The Deleuze Canon: The History of Philosophy as the Becoming of Thought, Florence, Clinamen, 2008.
Articles
- – Good manners at the Hyperborean table, in Propsettive, edited by D'Iorio, Piazzzesi, Fornari, Pisa, ETS, 2015
- – War imagery and literary strategy. Twilight of the Idols as a module of articulation of Nietzsche's last works, in Les hétérodoxie de Nietzsche, ed. by C. Denat and P. Wotling, EPURE Editions et presses. Universitaires de Reims, 2014.
- – Wissenschaft als Haltung: Nietzsches Selbstdarstellung als Folgerung aus dem Perspektivismus, in Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie Hrsg von H. Heit, G. Abel, M. Brusotti, Berlin-New York, Walter De Gruyter, 2012.
- – Past and Pietas. Cultural Revolutions in Nietzsche's Discourse, in Since We Are a Conversation, edited by F. Cattaneo, S. Marino, Rome, Aracne, 2011.
- – Frohliche Wissenschaft considered as the product of a gay science, in Letture della Gaia scienza. Lectures du Gai Savoir edited by C. Piazzesi, G. Campioni, P. Wotling, Pisa, ETS, 2010.
- – "How many Nietzsche's Zarathustras are there?" in The Paths of Zarathustra edited by Francesco Cattaneo and Stefano Marino, Bologna, Pendragon, 2009.
- – "The Deleuzian Interpretation of Nietzsche" in The Deleuze Canon: The History of Philosophy as the Becoming of Thought, edited by Manlio Iofrida, Francesco Cerrato, and Andrea Spreafico (Florence: Clinamen, 2008).
- – "For an Analysis of Nietzsche's Will to Power" in Estetica 2/2005, Genoa, il Melangolo.
- – "Nietzschean Ressentiment between Literature and the Exact Sciences" in "Philosophy as a Literary Genre," edited by Carlo Gentili, Pendragon, Bologna, 2002.
- – "I Say Will to Power. Nietzsche, Reader of Maximilian Drossbach," in Poetiche 2/2002, Modena Mucchi.