Michael Klien

Michael Klien (born 1973 in Vienna) is one of Europe’s choreographic pioneers. Michael Klien has been working as a choreographer, curator and producer of numerous touring productions, installations and events. He has been guest choreographer for Ballett Frankfurt and artistic advisor to William Forsythe. His works have been performed at many venues across Europe.

Klien 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 has been artistic director of Daghdha Dance Company, one of Ireland's leading dance organisations from 2003 to 2011.

“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 Klien, Book of Recommendations

References

External links

• Daghdha's Homepage
• Klien's Homepage

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