BODY OF WORK

Daniel Linehan

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Live performance

1h10
Tripostal

Fifteen years after his last creation, Daniel Linehan undertakes archeological research and dances in his own work, approached from his body and the experiences that have accumulated like many layers of memory.

By composing from these choreographic fragments that remained inscribed on his body as a choreographer and performer, Daniel Linehan offers a new interpretation of his writing, revealing the underground ties that unite them despite the ordeal of years. Down from the common belief that dance is the art of the fleeting, Body of Work demonstrates how a lot of choreography is permanently inscribed in the flesh and in the spirit. The memory of a score, the imprint of learning or sequel to a wound, each reanimated trace summons a physical memory. In 2013, Daniel Linehan was already invited to our festival with his first solo: let’s hope that this memory will be also revived in the minds of our audience.

Biography(s)

Linehan’s choreographic work is intent on softly obscuring the line that separates dance from everything else. He approaches performance-making from the point of view of a curious amateur, testing various interactions between dance and non-dance forms, searching for unlikely conjunctions, juxtapositions, and parallels between texts, movements, images, songs, videos, and rhythms.

Linehan first studied dance in Seattle and then moved to New York in 2004. As a performer, Linehan worked with Miguel Gutierrez and Big Art Group, among other artists. His own choreographic work first came to public attention in 2004 with the solo Digested Noise, presented in Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop. In 2005 and 2006, he worked with a team of four other dancers to create The Sun Came and Human Content Pile. Linehan was a 2007-2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. In 2007, he premiered the solo Not About Everything, which has since been presented in over 75 venues internationally.

In 2008, Linehan moved to Brussels where he completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in 2010.
His works created in Belgium include Montage for Three (2009), Being Together without any Voice (2010), Zombie Aporia (2011), Gaze is a Gap is a Ghost (2012), Doing While Doing (2012), The Karaoke Dialogues (2014), Un Sacre du Printemps (2015), dbddbb (2015), Flood (2017), Third Space (2018), Body of Work (2019) and sspeciess (2020).

Linehan also developed Vita Activa (2013), a participatory project for 40 unemployed people culminating in a final public performance, co-directed with Michael Helland; the book A No Can Make Space (2013) which gathers and organizes the traces of Linehan’s ten years of choreographic practice, created in collaboration with graphic designer Gerard Leysen (Afreux); and untitled duet (2013), a work streamed live as part of the Performance Room Series at Tate Modern in London.

Linehan is regularly invited as a guest teacher and mentor at dance institutions worldwide.

Linehan was Associated Artist at deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp, BE) and New Wave Associate at Sadler’s Wells (London, UK) from 2012-2014. From 2013-2016 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Opéra de Lille (FR).
Since 2015 Hiatus is supported by the Flemish authorities. Daniel Linehan is Creative Associate at deSingel International Arts Campus 2017-2021.
In partnership with BOS+, Hiatus contributes to the reforestation of our planet.

Credits

Cast:

Concept & performance Daniel Linehan

Dramaturgy Vincent Rafis

Outside eye Michael Helland

Scenographic advice 88888

Costume design Frédéric Denis

Lighting design Elke Verachtert

Sound Christophe Rault

Credits & mentions :

Production Hiatus (Brussels, BE)

Coproduction deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp, BE), Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE)

Residencies deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp, BE), Art Centre BUDA (Kortrijk, BE), Vooruit (Gent, BE)

International distribution Damien Valette (Paris, FR)

With the support of the Flemish authorities

Daniel Linehan, Hiatus is subsidized by the Flemish government and Creatieve Associate 2017-2021 at the deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp, BE).

Hiatus, in collaboration with BOS+, contributes to the reforestation of our planet.