Episode # 5 of Social Dreaming Talks will air on 23rd April 2021 @17-18 GMT. In this episode Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi will have a talk with Michael Kliën.
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Michael is a choreographer and artist whose work has been situated around the world. Kliën’s artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary thinking, critical writing, curatorial projects, and, centrally, choreographic works equally at home in the Performing as well as the Fine Arts.
He has been commissioned by leading institutions such as BallettFrankfurt, Martha Graham Dance Company, New Museum, PS122, Volksoper Wien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hayward Gallery, and ZKM. As Artistic Director/CEO of Daghdha (2003—2011, Ireland), Kliën developed a distinct movement aesthetic as well as influential concepts of politically engaged choreography, performance, and dance.
He received a PhD from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. After living and working in Greece, he was appointed Professor at Duke University in 2017, inaugural director of the MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis in 2018, and director of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at the Kenan Institute of Ethics in 2020.
Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi invite social dreaming practitioners and researchers to explore and think together about the use of this methodology in different contexts around the world, the discoveries and learning that comes with the practice from the beginning to the present time. Tho this end the Social Dreaming Talks aim to initiate a series of conversations about the tradition and the various emerging new trends.