Bodies at Work. Open Monday Daniël Linehan & Anneleen Keppens / Hiatus - The body as an archive

Daniel Linehan first studies dance in Seattle and then moves to New York in 2004 where he perfoms with Miguel Gutierrez and Big Art Group, among other artists. The same year, his own choreographic work comes to public attention with the solo Digested Noise, presented in Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop. In 2005 and 2006, he works with a team of four other dancers to create The Sun Came and Human Content Pile. Daniel Linehan is a 2007-2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. In 2007, he premieres the solo Not About Everything, which has since been presented in over 75 venues internationally.

In 2008, Linehan moves to Brussels where he completes the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in 2010. In Belgium he creates Montage for Three (2009), Being Together without any Voice (2010), Zombie Aporia (2011), Gaze is a Gap is a Ghost (2012), Doing While Doing (2012), The Karaoke Dialogues (2014), Un Sacre du Printemps (2015), dbddbb (2015), Flood (2017), Third Space (2018), Body of Work (2019) and sspeciess (2020), Listen Here: These Woods; This Cavern (2021), Kiss The One We Are (2023) and The Wonder Of It All (2025).

In collaboration with Michael Helland, Daniel Linehan developes Vita Activa (2013) in which he invites a group of job seekers to dive into the theater studio together for one week for an interactive workshop around the themes of ‘time’ and ‘work’. Together with Anneleen Keppens, the project further develops into an intergenerational exchange between participants of all ages and different backgrounds forming a temporary community with an alternative economy.

From 2012 to 2014 Daniel Linehan is New Wave Associate at Sadler’s Wells (London, UK) and from 2013 to 2016 Artist-in-Residence at Opéra de Lille (FR). As part of the Performance Room Series at Tate Modern in London, he creates Untitled Duet (2013). He collaborates with DE SINGEL (Antwerp, BE) as Associated Artist from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2021. During this residency, he and graphic designer Gerard Leysen (Afreux) create the book A No Can Make Space which they shape as a performance with texts, drawings and images from Linehan’s dance practice. Dance institutions and festivals worldwide regularly invite him as a guest teacher and mentor.

Hiatus is supported by the Flemish government and Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government. In partnership with BOS+, Hiatus contributes to the reforestation of our planet.

Anneleen Keppens graduated from P.A.R.T.S./Brussels in 2010 and works as a choreographer, dancer, artistic collaborator, and teacher. In these various roles, she explores ways of being together through the body and movement. Her work lives in the gap between formal and informal, transparent and mystical, soft and hard, physical and metaphysical. She created the performances The moon is the moon is the moon (2017), Movement Essays (2019), and Blue Moon Spring (2023). She also develops the practice Body Dialogues, in which she engages in conversations with and about the body with various artists across different disciplines and media. Currently, she is working on the solo performance Lullabye and the publication Mother/Maker, and she is an artist in residence at De Weister, a care home in Aalbeke, in the frame of Woon.Zorg.Kunst. Anneleen has worked as a dancer for Rosas, Hiatus/Daniel Linehan and others. She has taught workshops in Artesis Hogeschool, PARTS SummerSchool, La Raffinerie/Charleroi Danse and INSAS.