Laboratory for Social Choreography

Meshroom an open dancefloor for rewilding thought and movement 2/23 2022, 7-9PM, THE ARK, EAST CAMPUS Free and open to all. Drop-in drop-out. Bring a friend. Meshroom is a performance environment that forms an intellectual/intentional community around an open dancefloor. It is a space for transcending narrow languages, ungrounding from fixed realities, and co-creating temporary […]

AMENDMENT A social choreography by Michael Kliën Experience an immersive work – a social choreography – by choreographer and professor Michael Kliën. In times of the systemic destruction of our environment, Amendment offers a container to reform our relationship with the unknown, the foreign, the animal. The work provides citizens with extraordinary experiences to temporarily […]

CONSTITUTION A Social Choreographic Site By Michael Kliën Monday, April 17 & Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Start 7PM (75 Min) von der Heyden Studio Theater Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University With: Simone Barros, Sang Chi Liu, Marika Niko, Julia Piper, Leo Ryan, Tomo Waters, Miki Zhu, Alphonso Blades Jr., Tyler Burden, Gi Chun, Avery Lythcott-Haims, […]

“Parliament is a psychedelic thunderbolt. It draws everyone out of their day-to-day functional perception and plunges them into a lived world of communal wealth, mystery, beauty and potential.” Parliament is a pioneering work of situational choreography and exploration of ecological aesthetics. The work offers participants a critically needed withdrawal from normal modes of social action […]

How do we deliberate before and beyond language? How do we create relations without words? How are our bodies determined by the spaces we are in? The Art of Assembly is a nomadic series of talks and conversations exploring the potential of assembly in activism, art, and politics. This 25th edition of The Art of Assembly […]

11th Organ I Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | 4 PM Rubenstein Arts Center | von der Heyden Studio Theater A Symposium “Without prophecy and without vision, politics is nothing. This has to begin in a rebellion that is at once intellectual and spiritual.” - Roberto Unger You are invited to drop in and out during […]