Festival / Evening
Daniel Linehan : Not about everything
02 Mar 2013
The event is over
A dancer comes on stage alone. He starts to spin. His rotation progressively transforms into a frenzied and obsessional gyratory movement. Without ever stopping, he talks, he reads, shares his thoughts and questions with the audience. Into this apparently simple and repetitive movement from place to place, he introduces a series of subtle variations, increasing speeds and different timings, creating a demanding and complex dance. More than this even, in this endless whirling, Daniel Linehan creates, with great delicacy and depth, a space for meditative reflection....
Followed by:
Thomas Hirschhorn
Letter to Fanny
"Thinking does not produce “beauty” but the activity of thinking is beautiful. I want to show that."
Th. Hirschhorn
A dancer comes on stage alone. He starts to spin. His rotation progressively transforms into a frenzied and obsessional gyratory movement. Without ever stopping, he talks, he reads, shares his thoughts and questions with the audience. Into this apparently simple and repetitive movement from place to place, he introduces a series of subtle variations, increasing speeds and different timings, creating a demanding and complex dance. More than this even, in this endless whirling, Daniel Linehan creates, with great delicacy and depth, a space for meditative reflection....
Choreography and dance: Daniel Linehan
Dramatization: Juliette Mapp
Coproduction: Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program and Dance Theater Workshop Creative Residency Program with the support of the Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (a US federal agency), New York State Council of the Arts and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
Devised under the Movement Research Artist Residency Project, with the support of the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
Daniel Linehan has worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York for four years. He has collaborated with Michael Helland on numerous dance duos presented in New York, Philadelphia and Montreal. His work has been presented at numerous New York venues, including Chez Bushwick, Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen. From 2008 to 2010, he studied at the P.A.R.T.S. dance school in Brussels, where he is now an established choreographer. The solo show, Not About Everything, was created at the Dance Theater Workshop in November 2007. Montage For Three for two dancers was presented at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales in Paris in 2009 and Zombie Aporia for three dancers was created at the Kunstenzentrum Vooruit in Ghent in 2011. His work is presented internationally.
Followed by:
Thomas Hirschhorn
Letter to Fanny
"Thinking does not produce “beauty” but the activity of thinking is beautiful. I want to show that."
Th. Hirschhorn
When
From 7pm
