Choreographing in the Imagination of your Gods

In Crowell 108 >>

Michael Kliën, Ph.D. is a freelance choreographer who has worked individually and collaborated extensively all over Europe and the USA in an artistic capacity, as well as an academic educator. He has guest-taught at six MFA programs in European universities. The most alluring aspect of Kliën's application is his overarching pedagogical and artistic philosophy - a foundation upon which he has build his entire career: "My teaching offers students to experience and define dance and choreography against the backdrop of wider ecological, social and political structures. I approach both disciplines as distinct, nonetheless deeply entangled fields of perception and practice. Dance as an artistic discipline defines itself predominately through its institutional arrangements, through the historical development of certain techniques and abilities to manipulate and master aspects of bodily, physical exertion and exhibition."

Kliën talks about his work here: https://vimeo.com/71245773
Kliën's work: https://vimeo.com/154571606