Not About Everything
Daniel Linehan
08/10/2010
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23:40
09/10/2010
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10/10/2010
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Created and performed by: Daniel Linehan
Original lighting design by: Joe Levasseur
Dramaturgy by: Juliette Mapp
Funding: Not About Everything was created in part through the Bessie Schönberg/ First Light Commissioning Program and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop
With the support of: Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (a US federal agency), New York State Council of the Arts, and Jerome Robbins Foundation.
This work was also made possible by: the Movement Research Artist Residency Project and the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
Performed in english with italian subtitles
Running time: 35'
NATIONAL PREMIERE
A single body enters the space and begins to turn. The turning begins gently, but it gradually transforms into insane gyratory motion. Within the singularity of his obsessive circular motion, Daniel Linehan introduces a series of variations, accelerations, and subtle shifts, creating a funny and complex dance.
He subjects himself to strenuous physical and mental processes involving multiple simultaneous tasks: to speak, think, react, address the audience, etc., without ceasing his perpetual spinning. Linehan tells us that he is not speaking about desperation, endurance, or government policy; he is not speaking about celebrities, virtuosity, or metaphysical problems. Yet even though his words seem to negate, he calls to our attention these issues that evoke a world far larger than his contained little circle. Endlessly spinning around in the center of a shifting network of ideas, Daniel Linehan creates an inverted black hole, a space of disorienting vertigo perhaps, but also a space of thoughtful reflection where all of these ideas can flow and resound.
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Daniel Linehan
Daniel Linehan (Choreography and Performance), worked as a dancer and choreographer in Brooklyn (New York) for four years, and has recently re-located to Brussels to attend the Research Cycle at PARTS. He has collaborated with Michael Helland on multiple duet projects, which have been presented by several venues in New York, Philadelphia, and Montréal. Linehan’s own choreographic work has been presented at numerous venues in New York, including Chez Bushwick, Dance Theater Workshop, and The Kitchen. His solo Not About Everything premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in November 2007, and has since been presented internationally in Paris, Rennes and Ghent.
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