Research Materials

A curated selection of texts, scores, lectures, conversations, and documents for those wishing to engage more deeply with Michael Kliën's practice of Social Choreography. This page gathers working materials developed across artistic, pedagogical, and research contexts, and is intended as a point of access for practitioners, curators, students, and collaborators.

Start Here

For an initial orientation/grounding to the work.

Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change, 2009 (PhD, pdf)
Book of Recommendations, 2008 (pdf)

Scores & Exercises

Practical materials for direct engagement. To be used under GPL, please accredit source.

49 Field Studies (card set) (pdf)
Personal Cosmologies (pdf)
11th Organ Classic Matrix (pdf)
11th Organ Community Matrix (pdf)
Barn Raising (pdf)
Im Fett, 2003 (pdf)
Im Fett New York, Graceful, 2003 (pdf)
Framemakers Matrix, 2003 (pdf)
Excavation Sites (pdf)

Selected Writings

Texts offering theoretical and conceptual grounding.

Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change, 2009 (PhD, pdf)
A Permanent Parliament by Cory Tamler Second Edition (pdf)
Propositions: To Dance Differently, 2012 (pdf)
What Do You Choreograph at the End of the World?, 2007 (pdf)
Choreography: A Pattern Language, 2007 (pdf)
Program for a New Politics by Steve Valk, 2018 (pdf)

Talks & Conversations

Lectures, interviews, and discussions that articulate the practice across artistic, academic, and public contexts.

Scene on Radio: Michael Kliën and the Body Politic (podcast)
Franklin Humanities Institute: Social Choreography as an Aesthetics of Governance (lecture)
The Segal Center, CUNY: Parliament and Social Choreography (lecture / panel)
HZT Berlin: The Warmth of Work, work retrospective 2002-2012 (lecture)
Culturebot: in depth discussion of the work (conversation)
Culture File: Silent Witness/A Dancing Man, Irish Museum of Modern Art (interview, mp3)
Culture File: interview with dramaturge Steve Valk (mp3)

Works & Catalogues

Documentation and overviews of artistic output.

Catalogue of core works (pdf)
Full list of works (pdf)

Archive

Early works and historical materials tracing the development of the practice across choreographic and collaborative contexts.

Daghdha Dance Company related material, 2003-2011 (zip)
Framemakers, first symposium on Expanded Choreography, 2005-2008 (zip)
Posters, images and flyers, selection 1995-2019 (zip)

External Links

Websites, video material, and collaborators.

Michael Kliën's Vimeo page
Michael Kliën's Facebook page
R.I.C.E. on Hydra
Laboratory for Social Choreography Facebook page
Volkmar Klien
Rafal Kosakowski