Rethinking linguistic conventions with the body in focus – this is the task Adam Linder has taken on in “Auto Ficto Reflexo”. Advantageously, he has appropriated the codified language of cultural production and mediation for his own choreographic purposes. 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 movement, language and sound effecting. Inspiration is taken from social dance styles such as gliding, waving or the paddy-cake, which are forms that evolve body-to-body. These influences are inherently connected to current social and technological conditions: flow, fragmentation and repetition are all pathways for communication. Although Linder – originally from Australia and now living in Berlin – takes his conceptual approach seriously, he also cultivates a relaxed irony and ‘flirts cheekily and subversively with the parameters and marketing strategies of bourgeois theatre practice’, as Klaus Witzeling wrote in the specialist journal tanz.

Adam Linder’s choreographic practice consists of works made for the theatre and “Choreographic Services”, which can be hired per hour and are not bound to a particular context. Stage works by Linder have premiered at Les Subsistances in Lyon (Vexed Vista 2015), HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (Parade 2013), Kampnagel Hamburg (“Cult to the Built on What” 2013) and Silberkuppe Berlin (“Ma Ma Ma Materials” 2012). Further presentations of these works have included Dampfzentrale Bern (2014), American Realness in New York City (2014), Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Seine St Denis (2014), Kunstverein Nürnberg (2013), Sophiensaele Berlin (2013) and Liste Performance Projects in Basel (2013). “Choreographic Service No. 1: Some Cleaning” (2013) has been hired by Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2015), Wattis Institute in San Francisco (2015), Kunsthalle Basel (2014) and Museum of Arts and Design in New York City (2014). “Choreographic Service No. 2: Some Proximity” (2014) was presented in LIVE as part of Frieze Fair London and subsequently hired by Palais de Tokyo (2015), MOCA in Los Angeles (2015) and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015). Additionally, the film adaptation of “Parade”, directed by Shahryar Nashat, premiered at the 8th Berlin Biennale and screened at ICA in London, Hammer Museum in LA and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In the past Linder performed with Michael Clark, Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods and The Royal Ballet. And trained to be a dancer at The Royal Ballet School in London. “Choreographic Service No 3: Some Riding” has been commissioned by the ICA, London and will have a solo presentation from 8–13 Sep 2015.