A single body enters the space and begins to turn. The turning begins gently, but it gradually transforms into an insane gyratory motion. Within the singularity of his obsessive circular motion, performer 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.
Creation, Performance Daniel Linehan
Original lighting Joe Levasseur
Dramaturgy Juliette Mapp
Created trough the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop
With the support of the Jerome Foundation (St. Paul, MN, US), the Ford Foundation (New York, US), the National Endowment for the Arts (a US federal agency), the New York State Council of the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation (New York, US)
Made possible through the Movement Research Artist Residency Project, funded in part by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund (Philadelphia, PA, US)
Daniel Linehan/Hiatus is supported by the Flemish authorities
Calendar
- Not About Everything 21 August 2020, 20:30 STUK - Leuven, Belgium
- Not About Everything 14 September 2019 Parc de la Colombière - Dijon, France
- Not About Everything 22 June 2019, 22:00 Studio de la Velette - Rilleux-La-Pape, France
- Not About Everything 15 June 2019
- Not About Everything 3 November 2017, 22:00 Radialsytem V - Berlin, Germany
- Not About Everything 30 September 2017 Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans - Orléans, France
- Not About Everything 24 March 2017, 20:00 deSingel - Antwerpen, Belgium
- Not About Everything 16 March 2017, 19:30 Conservatoire, Chapelle des Réparatrices - Pau, France
- Not About Everything 27 February 2016, 20:30 Ottawa Dance Directive, ODD Box - Ottawa, Canada
- Not About Everything 25 February 2016, 20:30 Ottawa Dance Directive, ODD Box - Ottawa, Canada
- Not About Everything 24 February 2016, 20:30 Ottawa Dance Directive, ODD Box - Ottawa, Canada
- Not About Everything 20 November 2015, 19:30 Reykjavík Dance Festival - Reykjavík, Iceland
- Not About Everything 30 September 2015, 21:00 Les Ecuries - Charleroi, Belgium
- Not About Everything 23 August 2015, 15:30 Théâtre de Poche - Hédé-Bazouges, France
- Not About Everything 22 August 2015, 19:15 Théâtre de Poche - Hédé-Bazouges, France
- Not About Everything 2 April 2015, 20:30 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale - Paris, France
- Not About Everything 8 November 2014 Dense Bamako Danse - Bamako, Mali
- Not About Everything 6 November 2014, 19:30 Institut Français Alger - Alger, Algeria
- Not About Everything 4 November 2014, 18:00 Institut Français Oran - Oran, Algeria
- Not About Everything 2 November 2014, 17:30 Institut Français Tlemcen - Tlemcen, Algeria
- Not About Everything 30 October 2014, 18:30 Institut Français Annaba - Annaba, Algeria
- Not About Everything 28 October 2014, 18:00 Institut Français Constantine - Constantine, Algeria
- Not About Everything 6 October 2014, 18:45 l’Espace Culture de l’Université de Lille 1 - Lille, France
- Not About Everything 16 June 2014, 20:00 TROIS C-L, Banannefabrik - Luxembourg, Luxembourg