PARLIAMENT Michael Kliën (Austria) / Laboratory for Social Choreography (Duke University) Featuring former members of the Martha Graham Dance Company, PARLIAMENT is a durational participatory movement experience held in the open courtyard at AMANT, 315 Maujer Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn. In its everyday sense, a parliament is a forum for debate—a place where the affairs of state are negotiated through language. Between 50 and 100 individuals co-create this living, emergent social choreography through movement, stillness, gestures, and relational awareness. There is no choreography to follow, no leader to imitate, and no verbal communication—only the shared presence of bodies in space. Over the past decade, Parliament has drawn thousands of participants—including philosophers, dancers, office workers, scientists, students, and artists—from Athens and Tokyo to Amsterdam, Brussels, and Durham, North Carolina. Parliament transforms that idea by creating a participatory site for citizens to hold council beyond words, experimenting with democracy through the body. For three hours, participants share a space without speech or electronic devices, engaging in a subtle renegotiation of ethics, society, and coexistence. Through sensation, attention, movement, and presence, those gathered leave behind ephemeral traces—gestures, relationships, and patterns—that may be picked up, altered, and carried forward by others, potentially propagating beyond the confines of the courtyard. A pioneering work of situational choreography and ecological aesthetics, Parliament offers a vital withdrawal from habitual patterns of speech, structure, and social behavior. In its place, it opens an innovative site for embodied cooperation, civic reflection, and reimagined public life. Developed by choreographer Michael Kliën and the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University, Parliament invites participants to collectively inhabit a new kind of assembly—one that listens deeply, moves differently, and explores how we might truly be together. By reservation only. No movement experience required. Informal clothes recommended (suitable for sitting on the floor). Participants must be 18 or older. Courtyard doors will close promptly. No latecomers admitted. Participants must commit to the full 3-hour session.