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Daniel Linehan, Sadler's Wells, Lilian Baylis Theatre

Daniel Linehan, Sadler's Wells, Lilian Baylis Theatre

Photos recreated in dance (ish), spinning on the spot - is it just a pose?

Daniel Linehan: More dance, less of the photographs, please?Sadler's Wells Theatre

Photography is linked closely with memory. Photographs help us recall family, friends, holidays, and it can attest to an event. But one could argue that it actually serves a purpose of forgetting. As we are immersed in a digital age, the photograph becomes a series of binary numbers which doesn’t exist until it is written or printed, and which can be erased as easily as it is captured. Photographs are now as close to human recall as technology will allow. Daniel Linehan's Montage for Three last night was a perfomance piece which tried to address that.

Photography is linked closely with memory. Photographs help us recall family, friends, holidays, and it can attest to an event. But one could argue that it actually serves a purpose of forgetting. As we are immersed in a digital age, the photograph becomes a series of binary numbers which doesn’t exist until it is written or printed, and which can be erased as easily as it is captured. Photographs are now as close to human recall as technology will allow. Daniel Linehan's Montage for Three last night was a perfomance piece which tried to address that.

The dance seemingly makes the point that with the passage of time a photograph loses its specificity

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