Charles Linehan
Charles Linehan trained at the Rambert Academy before going on to work with various contemporary companies throughout Europe, returning to the UK in 1994 to set up his own company. Following on from Linehan’s position as Resident Choreographer at The Place Theatre (1996-1998), Charles Linehan Company has received commissions from The Royal Festival Hall, Dance Umbrella and The Place Theatre, along with international commissions supported by The British Council.

Linehan has received awards from The Robin Howard Foundation and was the winner of The Jerwood Choreography Award in 1998. He was awarded a scholarship from The Wingate Foundation in 2003. In 2004 he was short-listed for a Dora Award in Toronto for Outstanding Choreography for the season 2003/2004. Charles Linehan Company has toured extensively in Europe and North America and in 2006/07 will be touring in the UK, USA and Canada.

BELEF in coproduction with British Council Belgrade presents:

New Work
Mystery, enchantment and gravity. Charles Linehan has developed his own clear choreographic language drawing on the individual human qualities of his dancers. A series of connected and unconnected episodes is performed by five dancers from Belgrade and Bucharest, saturated in white light and propelled by a surging score played live from Belgradeyard Sound System members, Goran Simonosky and Ivan Antic, using from samples of Macedonian folk music.

New Work is a result of a joint work between the British Council-a and NGO „Station – contemporary dance service“in the area of contemporary dance education. This is a follow up of a two-week dance workshop that Charles Linehan held in Belgrade in February 2006, working with 25 dancers from Belgrade and South-East Europe region.

Grand Junction
Rigorously choreographed and densely atmospheric, Charles Linehan’s duet is driven by Julian Swales' compositions of cyclical acoustic guitar samples. Grand Junction explores the shifting psychology and terrain of the relationship between the two performers, Karl Paquemar and Andreja Rauch, through an inspired, detailed and unsparing physicality.

Grand Junction was originally commissioned by Dance Umbrella Festival, London and premiered in Thessalonica in 2002. It has toured throughout Europe, USA and Canada.