Dance in Focus features a selection of some of the most inventive and curious short films from around the world, curated by independent choreographer and London International Screen Dance Festival director, Charles Linehan.
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Charles Linehan
Choreographer & Director of LSDF
Charles Linehan (he/him)
Choreographer & Director of LSDF
London (UK)
Previous Dance Umbrella credits: The Shadow Drone Project, part of Shoreditch Takeover (2017, Shoreditch Town Hall); The Clearing & Inventions for Radio 1964 (2010, Greenwich Dance); The Way Station & Happy Days (2007, The Place); Happy Days & New Quartet (2005, The Place); Disintegration Loos & Grand Junction (2003, The Place); Speak, Memory & New Work (2002, The Place); Speak, Memory & Number Stations (2001, The Place)
Charles Linehan is an independent choreographer and has been Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London; Joint Adventures, Munich and an Associate Artist with Dance4, Nottingham.
He is the producer and director of London International Screen Dance Festival, curator of Brighton Screen Dance Festival and a panel member of Screen Dance International, Detroit.
Charles Linehan Company’s first appearance at Dance Umbrella was in 2001. Venues and festivals his company has performed at include Brussels (Kaai Theatre), Paris (Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Saint-Denis), Venice (Venice Biennale), Munich (Joint Adventures, Muffathalle), National Arts Centre Ottawa, Harbourfront, Toronto; Hermitage St. Petersburg, Danspace Project, New York; PACT Zollverein, Essen; Dublin International Dance Festival, Brighton Festival and multiple venues in London.
His dance film The Shadow Drone Project has been shown at festivals around the world including San Francisco International Dance Festival, The Lincoln Centre, New York; Mexico City Video Dance Festival and Dance Umbrella, London.
He received a Winning Film award for The Shadow Drone Project from POOL: Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin in 2019.
Dance in Focus curation
Discover the films in this programme!
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalLa Mezcla Ghostly Labor
A film exploring the history and reality of farm work in the US-Mexico borderlands
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalMalviniemi Company & Little Red House Films In the Same Boat
A film about the limits of the aging body and the boundlessness of the mind
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalDani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras – Nico Productions Muros
A father and son are separated by a silence of unresolved memories and gestures
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalCailin Leigh Manning & Nojus Setkauskas The Ends
A film contemplating how human and urban landscapes collide, co-exist and shape one another
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2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
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A poignant meditation on history, nature and the enduring will to remember
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalA Curation of International Short Films Between Breath & Lens
A curation of international films, exploring movement in its most expansive and evocative forms
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalAmala Dianor Company & Grégoire Korganow Nioun Rec
A film blending urban, contemporary and African dance in a modernist architectural masterpiece