Charles Linehan
Photo: Hugo Glendinning. Brighton Festival - performers: Lorea Burge Badiola, Samir Kennedy
Charles Linehan is an award winning independent choreographer based in Brighton.
Charles Linehan is a Jerwood Award winning choreographerhas and has been Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London; Joint Adventures, Munich; Associate Artist with Dance4, Nottingham. He is Reader in Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Director and Producer of London International Screen Dance Festival. He is a curator for Brighton Screen Dance Festival and a Panel Member for Screendance International, Detroit.
Venues and festivals his company has performed at include: Venice Biennale, DanSpace New York; Kaai Theatre, Brussels; Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Saint-Denis, Paris; Muffathalle, Munich; National Arts Centre Ottawa, Harbourfront, Toronto; Hermitage St. Petersburg, PACT Zollverein, Essen; Dublin International Dance Festival, Brighton Festival and multiple venues in London and through the UK.
In the last 25 years Charles Linehan Company has been regularly featured in Dance Umbrella Festival, London.
“One of our classiest Choreographers”
The Guardian
Charles’ film The Shadow Drone Project has been shown at Festivals around the world including San Fransisco International Dance Festival, Dance on the Camera at the Lincoln Center, New York; Mexico City Video Dance Festival, Nottingham Contemporary and Dance Umbrella Festival, London.
He receivied a Winning Film award for The Shadow Drone Project from POOL: INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN in 2019.
CHAOS II FREEDOM
Research Project/ Production 2025/ 2026
Choreography in collaboration with ‘outsider’ artist David Puttick.
“by dint of craft and skill conjures a theatre experience that is original, visually stimulating and intellectually satisfying... Linehan is the real thing"
Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell
Charles Linehan’s film The Sound Mirrors is situated in the spectacular environment in Denge, near Dungeness, in Kent. Built in 1928, and currently a nature reserve, the site features remnants of dead-end technology, namely a group of pre WW1 acoustic early warning constructions. The three concrete ‘radars’ are the best known of the acoustic mirrors built along England’s coast.
The Sound Mirrors: Dancer Antonia Grove - film in progress
“As Linehan has proved for over a decade now, the best things often come in the least hyped packages.”
The Observer
On location, Denge March 2022
“its understated, moody intelligence inspires deeply-felt admiration – even adoration – from dancers, fellow choreographers, critics, thinking audiences and at least some promoters.”
The Dancing Times (New Quartet)