Shelf Life: Barre Forever & Some Brain

Choreographer Adam Linder works for theatre stages and exhibition venues. His works focus on experimentation and the re-articulation of dance and performing art forms, genres and contexts, using text, costume, sound and film. His work is inspired by Lynn Margulis’ theories that life is an autopoietic system where the biosphere and technosphere intertwine. Shelf Life is a performance originally designed around three elements: the bar, blood and the brain. These choreographic organs work with each other and with architecture to produce a metaphorical nervous system for dance. The Geneva version focuses on the synchronisation and differentiation of three people on the bars, with the physical counterpoint of the brain moving through the space in an animal incarnation. A dialogue emerges between this thinking and analysing brain figure and the choral presence of the bars.