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Press Release: Adam Linder UK Premiere at Sadler's Wells


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Adam Linder
AUTO FICTO REFLEXO
UK PREMIERE
Lilian Baylis Studio
Wednesday 15 - Friday 17 March
Performances at 8pm
Tickets: £17
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

 

Adam Linder presents the UK premiere of AUTO FICTO REFLEXO, a sophisticated duet playing with the conventions of communication through text, movement and sound, at Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis Studio from Wednesday 15 - Friday 17 March 2017.

 

Adam Linder, originally from Australia, is a choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles and Berlin. He has worked with Michael Clark, Meg Stuart and The Royal Ballet and makes work for the stage and for visual art spaces. He was the winner of the inaugural Place Prize and has performed his work in London at ICA and Frieze.

 

His practice is enmeshed in a choreographic approach to conceptual ideas. Of particular interest to Linder is the meeting of the critical, supposedly objective or rational, with the expressive – the over-linguistic meeting the pre-linguistic. He mines the lively incompatibilities in this encounter, successful failures in translation and productive mis-translations.

Linder was awarded the Mohn Prize for artistic excellence in the Made in LA Biennial at The Hammer Museum Los Angeles in 2016. He participated in the 20th Biennale of Sydney and the Liverpool Biennial, and has recently performed solo and two person shows at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015) and The Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016).

Additionally, his works have been commissioned and presented in major international institutions including HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer Theatre Berlin, Serralves Museum Porto, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Wattis Institute San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, American Realness NYC, Kampnagel Theatre Hamburg, and 356 Mission Rd Los Angeles.

AUTO FICTO REFLEXO was created by Linder in 2015, and is a playful piece regarding the use of language to cultural production. Interviews with artists, cultural policy rhetoric or critique become rhythmic-conceptual generators of movement in this duet that is staged through levels like a game. Together with his co-choreographer and performer Justin Kennedy and the music producer Adam Gunther, Linder's choreographic form is located between dance, language and sound effecting. 

 

Inspiration is taken from movement that evolves body-to-body such as paddy-cake, gliding or snapshot posing. Forms that are inherently connected to current social and technological conditions – flow, fragmentation and repetition – are all pathways for communication. Linder said: “What I am interested in is how language constrains us; how the body can be defined by language, and how it can push past the boundaries of it.” 

 

Justin Kennedy is a Berlin-based dance artist and teacher originally from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. In 2006, he earned a BA in Dance and Ethnic Studies from Wesleyan University and in 2013, an MA in Choreography from HZT Berlin. His current projects include work with his art boyband BOYZ in the WOODS, as well as ANTI-CAB, a performative taxi service, and his new solo Toon Up the Middleground.

 

Adam Gunther is a producer, composer and musician, originally from LA and currently residing in Berlin. Often working alongside visual artists and making music for the senses, he has created scores for stages, galleries and records.

 

Free post show talk: Wednesday 15 March
 

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

 

ABOUT SADLER’S WELLS
Sadler's Wells is a world-leading dance house, committed to producing, commissioning and presenting new works and to bringing the best international and UK dance to London and worldwide audiences. Under the Artistic Directorship of Alistair Spalding, the theatre’s acclaimed year-round programme spans dance of every kind, from contemporary to flamenco, Bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap.
Since 2005, it has helped to bring over 130 new dance works to the stage and its award-winning commissions and collaborative productions regularly tour internationally. Sadler’s Wells supports 16 Associate Artists, three Resident Companies, an Associate Company and three International Associate Companies. It also nurtures the next generation of talent through 
research and development, running the National Youth Dance Company and a range of programmes including Wild Card, New Wave Associates, Open Art Surgery and Summer University.
Located in Islington, north London, the current theatre is the sixth to have stood on the site since it was first built by Richard Sadler in 1683. The venue has played an illustrious role in the history of theatre ever since, with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera all having started at Sadler’s Wells.
Sadler’s Wells is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and currently receives approximately 9% of its revenue from Arts Council England.  

 

 
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