Michael Kliën in collaboration with Dramaturge Steve Valk,
premiered 2006
performed as part of MOVE - CHOREOGRAPHING YOU - Art and Dance since the 1950s at Hayward Gallery, London.
Choreography: Michael Kliën
Dramaturgy: Steve Valk
Music: Volkmar Klien
Artistic Collaboration: Jeffrey Gormly
Lighting: Dave Guy
Duration: approx. 90 minutes.
Cast (Hayward): Nerma Cridge, Jeffrey Gormly, Jonzi D, Laura Dannequin, Penny Fieldings, Nina Kellgren, Gideon Koppel, Harvey Rendell
filmed off by: Conor Connolly
editing: Christina Gangos
“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.” KLIËN
6 Citizens, chosen both locally and internationally, are working on 7 monolithic blackboards spread throughout a large open space. Actively…
Michael Kliën in collaboration with Dramaturge Steve Valk,
premiered 2006
performed as part of MOVE - CHOREOGRAPHING YOU - Art and Dance since the 1950s at Hayward Gallery, London.
Choreography: Michael Kliën
Dramaturgy: Steve Valk
Music: Volkmar Klien
Artistic Collaboration: Jeffrey Gormly
Lighting: Dave Guy
Duration: approx. 90 minutes.
Cast (Hayward): Nerma Cridge, Jeffrey Gormly, Jonzi D, Laura Dannequin, Penny Fieldings, Nina Kellgren, Gideon Koppel, Harvey Rendell
filmed off by: Conor Connolly
editing: Christina Gangos
“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.” KLIËN
6 Citizens, chosen both locally and internationally, are working on 7 monolithic blackboards spread throughout a large open space. Actively…
Choreography: Michael Klien
Dancers: Shai Tamir, Mami Shimazaki, Davide Terlingo, Nicole Peisl
Music: Volkmar Klien
Lighting/Stage: Dave Guy, Michael Klien
Duration of performance: approx. 55 minutes
Premiered: September 2004 Dublin, Ireland
A thought is a physical act. With SEDIMENTS OF AN ORDINARY MIND choreographer Michael Klien has succeeded in devising a range of procedures aimed at guiding dancers to embody their personal streams of consciousness in real-time, on stage. By creating an artefact that actively and purposefully channels the existing personal and social setup of four dancers, SEDIMENTS OF AN ORDINARY MIND is an enigma of human idiosyncrasies bearing extra-ordinary traces of the ordinary.
The work’s distinct choreographic and performative language builds on Klien’s ongoing quest for the development of new forms of choreographic expression. In a setting that is as real as it is fake, the work actively utilizes the underlying dynamics of the human condition: learning,…
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY
STANDING IN INK
PREMIERED: 2008, THEATRE DE AQUARIUM, PARIS
25 MINS
CHOREOGRAPHY: MICHAEL KLIËN
DANCERS: MARK CARBERRY AND LAURA DANNEQUIN
COMPOSITION: VOLKMAR KLIËN
Two dancers on stage. Nothing agreed, nothing set. They are poised to dance together. Carberry and Dannequin, Ireland’s new generation of exceptional dancers, perform this radically fresh, mindful and physical duet.
STANDING IN INK has emerged out of a yearlong conversation between the choreographer and the dancers, systematically examining their own processes of thought, perception and co-existence. Over twelve months they have re-configured how they think about dance, how they think about the other. In performance, they will learn about each other afresh and disclose a new world in dance. Dancing differently to what the eye is used to and choreographed differently to what one would expect, STANDING IN INK is a deceivingly simple duet; yet it carries the potential to spark a subtle revolution in…
EINEM
A MEDIATED DANCE WORK FOR A SOLO PERFORMER.
PREMIERED: APRIL 2003 TQW, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
20 MINS
CHOREOGRAPHY: MICHAEL KLIËN
MUSIC: VOLKMAR KLIEN
SOFTWARE-DESIGN: NICK ROTHWELL, MICHAEL KLIËN
ORIGINAL LIGHTING: JAN WALTHER
ORIGINALLY PRODUCED BY: BALLETT FRANKFURT, TANZQUARTIER WIEN & ZKM
CURRENTLY: REPERTOIRE OF DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY
BACKGROUND
Performed to critical acclaim by an exceptional roster of solo dance artists, EINEM - a 'work in movement' - is a mediated dance work which is subject to continuous change. Since its inception in 2003 – and with each consecutive presentation of the work - EINEM has been developed by each of its solo performers towards the creation of a synergistic relationship between the dancer and the piece itself: thus allowing the work to grow, learn, mutate and live together with the individual dancer with whom a communication occurs back and forth over time. Dancers who have ‘co-habited’ with the work include Christine Buerkle and Nicole Peisl,…
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY
SENSE AND MEANING
Concept and Choreography: Michael Klien
Dance and movement research: Elena Giannotti
Dramaturgy: Steve Valk
Music: Volkmar Klien
Duration: circa 60 minutes
Premiere: December 13, 2007 Limerick, Ireland
recorded in the Theatre de Aquarium, Paris
an instance of a process...
During 2006 and 2007 choreographer Michael Klien and dancer Elena Giannotti immersed themselves into an intense artistic conversation, working on the disclosure of reality through dance in a process entitled 'Field Studies'. In ‘Sense and Meaning’ they finally presented traces of the mental spaces carved out through that process.
Initially a series of strategies, memories, mental-states and procedures, ‘Sense and Meaning’ bound them together in a comprehensive field for embodied thought. During each performance Elena was exploring and extending ‘Sense and Meaning’ - her personal manifested territory of thought - evoking the possibility for dance as a transformative force for…
a channel dedicated to the choreographic work of choreographer Michael Klien. These videos are predominately full-length work filmed off with one or two cameras.
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