Charles Linehan

Charles Linehan is an award winning independent choreographer and film-maker based in the UK

Charles Linehan 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: Brussels (Kaai Theatre), Paris (Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Saint-Denis), Venice (Venice Biennale), DanSpace New York, 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’ recent 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

Research Project/ Production 2025/ 2026

Choreography in collaboration with ‘Outsider’ artist David Puttick.

Supported by Arts Council England, Trinity Laban seed funding, South East Dance and Outside In.

This project aims to change the way choreography and visual arts are seen in galleries by proposing movement and choreography as the instigator of visual art processes specifically by collaborating with ‘outsider’ artist David Puttick.

We aim for true integration of choreography and visual arts whereby movement is the kinetic starting point for visual art creation and a reformed, live, unified end point through a series of reciprocal processes of choreography/ sound/ images in collaboration with the artist David Puttick.

“David Puttick  is an ‘outsider’ artist of passion and intensity who has been making art throughout his life. Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic in college at age 20, his health has seesawed through the years. He sees faces in the cracks of sidewalks and bark of trees and “finds” them in his fierce, mixed-media, drawings of paint, pencil, ball-point pen, and bitumen paint (tar).”

 “Recently, I have noticed faces in natural forms such as trees, stones, paving stones, and other places, (even in Formica and mass produced tiling where a vision of general ambience is the norm). I believe this process of recognition goes back to pre-history. My course of enquiry has covered the Fibonacci sequence, our desire to create form out of the random, and embracing the unknown or unconscious. I photograph, document, and collect objects, and draw/paint my own interpretations of what I see.”

David Puttick, 2017.

Work in progress showing at the Jamie Watton Creation Space at South East Dance end November 2025.

More information to to follow…

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