Michael Kliën page

In this video we have documented a workshop delivered by one of our visiting artists, Michael Klien, choreographer and artistic director of Daghdha Dance Company/Ireland.

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About
Michael Kliën has been working as a choreographer, curator and producer of numerous touring productions, installations and events. He has been guest choreographer for Ballet Frankfurt and artistic advisor to William Forsythe. His works have been performed at many venues across Europe. Kliën developed a series of new choreographic methods and procedures (including non-linear choreography and distributed choreography) as well as improvisation methodologies for dance. He has championed the development of choreography as an autonomous aesthetic discipline, the main focus of his work.

He co-founded the performance collective Barriedale Operahouse in London, the website web forum Choreograph.net, and the 'Framemakers project' - a series of events dedicated to choreography as an Aesthetics of Change. Together with artists such as Nicholas Mortimore, William Forsythe, Steve Valk and Jeffrey Gormley, his name is also associated with the development of 'Social Choreography'. Klien is currently artistic director of Daghdha Dance Company, one of Ireland's leading dance organisations.

“Choreography is not to constrain movement into a set pattern, it is to provide a cradle for movement to find its own patterns - over and over again – to prevent a body – whether bound by skin or habits from stagnation and enable lightness, a primal energy and possibilities only to be found once relations start dancing.” Michael Kliën, Book of Recommendations

Documentation of sessions

Watch Session 1 on Vimeo (click here).

Links

http://www.daghdha.ie/

http://michaelklien.com/

http://www.choreograph.net/ 

Resources

Kliën, M. and Valk, S. (2007), What Do You Choreograph At The End Of The World?, Zodiak: Unden  Taussin Taehen, Finland: Like (read here)