The Quiet Magic
The Quiet Magic
A duet by and with Daniel Linehan & Victor Perez Armero
With the music of Adrianne Lenker
The Quiet Magic explores the organic connection between music and dance. Inspired by the compositions of Adrianne Lenker, Linehan presents a stripped-down performance where the dancers’ movements respond to the music with deliberate spontaneity and vulnerability. Through fluid, immersive gestures, and distancing itself from spectacular artifice, Linehan invites us to reflect on our relationship to the essential and to shared experience. He proposes an intimate dance performance on how we can care for one another in a world dominated by noise and sensory overload.
What is the special magic that hides in the corners and doesn’t reveal itself to the direct gaze?
What is the poetry that evokes that sense of bliss we feel in this precious moment of being alive, this exquisite feeling that is impossible to express in words?
And yet we try to express it anyway, in words, in sounds, in dance.
We try to share what’s inside us that is delicate and fragile, and celebrate the quiet mystery.
We try to pursue soft openness as an act of loving defiance, in a world that is too saturated with loud noise and hard-edged rigidity.
What if we savor the quiet over the noise?
When we start to listen to the secrets of the quiet magic, what will we all discover?
Choreograpy Daniel Linehan
Dance Daniel Linehan, Victor Perez Armero
Dramaturg Elisa Demarré
Music Adrianne Lenker
Scenography Cee Füllemann
Light design Meri Ekola
Sound design Christophe Rault
Costume design Frédérick Denis
Production Hiatus
Coproduction Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Le Festival de Marseille (FR), Cndc – Angers in the frame of the Accueil Studio 2026 (FR), CCN de Grenoble, in the frame of the Accueil Studio 2026 (FR), Perpodium, Antwerpen (BE)
Residency DE SINGEL, Antwerpen (BE), STUK Leuven (BE), CNDC Angers (FR), CCN Grenoble (FR)
Hiatus is supported by the Flemish authorities and Tax Shelter of the Belgian authorities.
