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