dance
Not about everything
Daniel Linehan - United States
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Daniel Linehan is starting the show, spinning around him repeating « This is not about everything ». Another voice is echoeing his to eventually melt into his. Linehan is getting a letter out of his pocket, adressed to his male or female friend. Little by little, it draws our attention, it imposes to us, it shatters our senses, it controls them to finally get hold of them. And there could be nothing but this particular present.
« At the stage's midpoint, several books and magazines are arranged in a ring. Paper streamers of blank white cash register tape radiate from the objects on the floor up into the fly space, creating an arena or open cage-like feeling, and a spectacular visual design on the very cheap, using loaded signifiers. Linehan enters the space, steps into the circle, and slowly looks around at his viewers, making eye contact as he does. He begins to spin and also speak, first repeating the number one over and over in quick bursts, along with a recorded version. The spinning never ceases until the end, nor does the talking. "This is not about everything" eventually becomes "This is not about desperation," Over the course of the 20-plus minute dance, Linehan alters his pacing, his legwork, and, especially, the way he uses his arms - to snap around and speed up his turns, to smack against his chest when he asks, "Do you know who I am?" and to pull tightly into his body and grab at his torso. Call it young, call it simple, and call it a success. »
Gay city news
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chorégraphie et interprétation : Daniel Linehan
créations lumières : Joe Levasseur
dramaturgie : Juliette Mapp
technique : Clive Mitchell
