From Seattle, Daniel Linehan is the perfect representative of his native city’s spirit: at the same time modern, distinguished and yet very rock’n’roll.  It was to take a class at PARTS, the school created in Brussels by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, that Linehan came to Europe, where he very quickly met with success.

At age 30, he had already imposed his own choreographic language exploring with humour and rigour all the imaginable variations between body and voice, movement and language, synchronisation and discrepancy.

‘‘The tension born from the opposition of unbridled physicality and structured choreography is one of the main driving forces of my approach,” he explains. It is now at the Lille Opera, where he begins an artistic residence, that he will be able to refine his joyously explosive style. This new creation, presented in the context of the Contemporary Latitudes festival, looks at the way technology augments our capacity to be human. Daniel Linehan plays with video materials to multiply the levels of perception and also to foment trouble between live and pre-recorded events.

Creation 2012

Concept, choreography Daniel Linehan
Dramaturgy Aaron Schuster
Scenography (to be precised)
Lights Elke Verachtert
Costumes Icaro Ibañez-Arricivita

With
Salka Ardal Rosengren, Anneleen Keppens, Maria Silva
Production Caravan production
Diffusion Damien Vallette

Daniel Linehan is in residency at Lille Opera in 2013.

SA 6 AVRIL
HAPPY DAY ! CARTE BLANCHE À DANIEL LINEHAN

MON 10 june at 9:45 pm
AN ENCOUNTER
with Daniel Linehan following the performance. Free admission.

THU 11 JUNe
ATELIER DES SPECTATEURS
animé par Philippe Guisgand.
Présentation du spectacle à 19h, suivie d’une rencontre-débat à l’issue de la représentation.
Gratuit sur réservation 1 mois à l’avance.
T 0820 48 9000 / billetterie@opera-lille.fr.

RESTAURATION ET BAR À LA ROTONDE
dès 18h30 (entrée : billetterie, rue Léon Trulin) et à l’issue du spectacle.