Body of Work
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Linehan, Daniel (United States)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Body of Work
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Linehan, Daniel (United States)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Body of Work
Fifteen years after his first creation, Daniel Linehan is conducting danced, archaeological research into his own work, based on his own body and the experiences that have accumulated there, like a series of memory strata. By composing from these literally incarnated choreographic fragments, the choreographer is offering a new reading of his own writings, showing up subterranean links that unite them, despite the passage of time. Running against the common opinion that dance is the art of the ephemeral, Body of Work shows in actions how much a choreography is inscribed lastingly in the flesh, at the same time as the mind. From the memory of a score, with the hints of an apprenticeship or the sequel of an injury, each reanimated trace convokes a physical memory which arises in the form of intuitive reminiscences. This retrospective exercise then reveals how much the experience of time is impregnated with the past, as plastic as the body charged with incarnating it.
Source: program of the CND
Linehan, Daniel
Born in 1982 in Seattle, Daniel Linehan developed his choreographic art for four years in New York, notably with Miguel Gutierrez and the Big Art Group, Mark Haim and Wil Swanson. He partnered with Michael Helland for a myriad of duos presented in New York, Philadelphia and Montreal. In 2007-2008, he was resident artist at Movement Research (New York). Directly admitted to the P.A.R.T.S. Research programme, he has since established himself in Brussels. In his work, Daniel Linehan leans on language resources to enrich his questioning on movement. The sense emerges from a stream of disparate information – narrative, emotional, textual, visual and physical – brought together on stage.
Daniel Linehan created the solo “Digested Nois” in 2004 (Dance Theater Workshop, New-York), the quintet “The Sun came” (Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn) and “Human Content Pile”, for four dancers (The Kitchen, New-York), in 2006.
With his solo “Not About Everything” created in 2007 (Dance Theater Workshop, New York) he was acknowledged by the French audience. In 2009, his duo “Montage for Three” was presented during the “Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales” (International Choreographic Encounters) of Seine-Saint-Denis. “Zombie Aporia” is his latest creation.
More information
Last update : September 2011
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Body of Work
Artistic direction / Conception : Daniel Linehan
Interpretation : Daniel Linehan
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Vincent Rafis - Regard extérieur Michael Helland
Set design : 88888
Lights : Elke Verachtert
Sound : Christophe Rault
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Spectacle présenté avec les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
Duration : 80 minutes
DANCE AND DIGITAL ARTS
K. Danse's artistic partners
Dyptik Company
Yield Variations on dissuasive urban furniture
Roots of Diversity in Contemporary Dance
Modern Dance and Its American Roots [1900-1930] From Free Dance to Modern Dance
At the dawn of the 20th century, in a rapidly changing West, a new dance appeared: Modern Dance. In the United States as in Europe, modern trends emerge simultaneously and intertwine in thier development. Let's dive into the beginnings of American modern dance!
New breath : 21st century youth enters the world of dance
Noé Soulier Rethinking our movements
Qudus Onikeku - Reclaim a forgotten memory
(LA)HORDE: RESIST TOGETHER
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
LATITUDES CONTEMPORAINES
40 years of dance and music
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
The national choreographic centres
James Carlès
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.