‘For me dancing is about celebrating moments in my life. It’s about moving, it’s about my body. With dance I express joy, sadness and peacefulness.’
In Kiss The One We Are, Daniel Linehan continues his research into the relationship between dance, the body and the connection to everything else. Movement is the first form we use to express ourselves, before the use of language. In every culture, people dance to celebrate. We share emotions through dance and it connects us. Some dedicate their whole life to it and tell stories with movement. There is dance in each one of us and in nature all around us. From objects in the universe circling in endless orbits to atomic particles generating energy in similar patterns. Everything is in motion.
Kiss The One We Are is a collaboration with Dance On Ensemble (Berlin, DE) and a co-production with STUK (Leuven, BE), Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris, FR) and Perpodium (Antwerp, BE).
Tour 2023-2024: STUK (Leuven, BE), Cultuurcentrum Brugge (Brugge, BE), Théatre national de Chaillot (Parijs, FR), Kaaitheater & La Raffinerie/Charleroi danse (Brussel, BE) en DE SINGEL (Antwerpen, BE)
Dance is unity of expression and function; physicality filled with light, giving soul to form. Without ecstasy no dance!
Mary Wigman
In this intensive workshop guided by Daniel Linehan and Michael Helland, we explore the power of dance and embodied practice to help open our minds to heightened states of awareness, as we take a deep dive into the marvelous wonders that we are.
TicTac Art Center (Brussels) programmed the one week workshop and invited Daniel Linehan for a guest performance in early April.
‘We are free to change the world and start something new in it.’
Hannah Arendt
An intergenerational group worked together in STUK for one week in April around concepts of time and work. Using the dance studio as a free space, they explored the possibilities of personal skills and experienced their value in a new way. Soon they formed a temporary community and created an alternative economy with exchanges and surprising interactions.
Thanks to all the participants, STUK, Creative Europe and DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON for making this project possible.
Every last Monday of the month Hiatus opens its dance studio in Brussels for everone who enjoys moving. Two dancers share some of their favorite practices and invite you to experience them. The aim is not to learn a choreography but to enrich and nourisch ourselves and one another. It’s a moment to discover and connect.
Next session: Monday 27 May – 18:30-20:30 – Hiatus Brussels
The workshop is free of charge but spaces are limited. Register here to join us.