Nanine Linning - Archive Series (2008 - 2021)

A journey through the creative mind of Nanine Linning in which she is sharing her personal vision on recurring themes in her body of work and insights into her creative processes. In this 20 minute long video the viewer will travel through many of her award winning, multi disciplinairy works in which she explores her dreams, her vivid poetic imagery as well as her physical explosive dance language and collaboration with her dancers. Recurring themes in her work are animalistic instincts, psychology and human behaviour, vulnerability, her desire to challenge gravity, philosophical question around life and death and her desire to discover immortality.

Part 1 - The Animalistic Creature
In this chapter Linning speaks about animalistic instincts within human behaviour, physical domination and manipulation. With excerpts of BACON by Dance Company Nanine Linning (2015), THE BLACK PAINTING created by Linning for Gauthier Dance (2015), SILVER created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2015) and VOICE OVER for Theater Osnabrück (2010). Music by Michiel Jansen

Part 2 - The Unwritten Body
In this chapter Linning speaks about vulnerability. With excerpts of SILVER created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2015), DOUBLE HELIX (2019), ENDLESS SONG OF SILENCE (2019) and BACON (2018) all created with her own Dance Company Nanine Linning. Music by Michiel Jansen

Part 3 - The Boundless Species
Here Linning speaks about her dreams of being without gravity and how her training as diver influenced her in how she works with her dancers to create the sense of weightlessness. With excerpts of DOUBLE HELIX (2019) and ENDLESS SONG OF SILENCE (2019), ZERO for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2012) as well as ZERO danced by Staatsballett Thüringen (2019). Music by Jacob ter Veldhuis

Part 4 - The Hidden Figure
In this chapter Linning speaks about anonimity and the physical power of the body to express without identity of the face. With excerpts of DOUBLE HELIX created for her own Dance Company Nanine Linning (2019), THE BLACK PAINTING created by Linning for Gauthier Dance (2015), SILVER (2015) and ZERO (2014) created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, REVOLT created for Stuttgart Ballet (2019) and VOICE OVER for Theater Osnabrück. Music by Michiel Jansen

Part 5 - The Eternal Being
Linning speaks about life and death and her research on eternal life. With excerpts of DOUBLE HELIX (2019) and BACON (2018) created for her own Dance Company Nanine Linning, HIERONYMUS B. (2015) and DUSK (2017) created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and TEARS OF PETER, created for Netherlands Chamber Choir (2020). Music by Jacob ter Veldhuis

Part 6 - The Invisible Other
In this chapter she speaks about human behaviour, the fear and curiosity of the other, the mystery of shadow’s and hidden spaces, our inner worlds.  With excerpts of SILVER (2015) and KHÔRA (2016) created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, ENDLESS SONG OF SILENCE created with her own Dance Company Nanine Linning (2019) and REVOLT created for Stuttgart Ballet (2019). Music by Michiel Jansen

Part 7 - The Morphing Body
In this chapter Linning speaks about her need for rituals and cycles and through transformation become someone else. With excerpts of ENDLESS SONG OF SILENCE created with her own Dance Company Nanine Linning (2019), DUSK created for Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (2017) and VOICE OVER for Theater Osnabrück (2010). Music by Michiel Jansen. Video editing Lisa Lareida 

Thank you to the many wonderful artists with whom I had the chance to collaborate, both on and off stage. A special thank you for my long time collaborators among others Peggy Olislaegers, Thomas Guggi, Bart Hess, Iris van Herpen, Juliane Noß, Irina Shaposhnikova, Erik Spruijt, Silva Safkova, Kyle Patrick, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Michiel Jansen, And thank you to Dachverband Tanz Deutschland for your generous support.

Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.