stuart lynch
Originally a trained Butoh dancer with Japanese choreographer & actor, Min Tanaka, Stuart Lynch is a Theatre Director, Performer and Writer based in Copenhagen.
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Tilvalg:
As a writer, butoh dancer and theatre director Lynch’s work revolves around themes of temporality, existence and a search for emotional intensity. Within this residencey Lynch is researching Heidegger’s notion of being, or Dasein, and how this state and experience of time and self-awareness can be wielded performatively.
LiteraturHaus’ new house artist can be experienced in following events.
April 11: The publication of his new collected works, ‘THIRTY-SIX MONOLOGUES’.
June 20: Crossing the Line’ festival, ‘THE ARTAUD ENGINE AND OTHER WORKS’
September 5: Film Premiere ‘I’LL FORGET YOU NAME’
November: Final Residency Performance ‘UNTITLED’
September to November: Teaching BUTOH DANCE classes in the method and technique of the Japanase dance Ankoku Butoh.
“Lynch er i sit es ude på kanten, der hvor der skal afprøves noget nyt eller anderledes. Således har han fået gennemslagskraft – også internationalt – med sine op til 24 timer lange maratonforestillinger.”
Monna dithmer
Journalist, Politikken
History
From 2013 to 2023, Lynch was the leader of Denmark’s ‘Københavns Film & Teaterskole’ and is currently ‘Artist-in-Residence’ here at, ‘LiteraturHaus’ with an additional residency at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
Before his position as leader of KFTS he directed works such as Dreyer – Den Danske Tyran for the 2013 CPH PIX International Film Festival, the Uganda Danish collaborative work, Look Homeward Angel and Dansehallernes directed, The Artaud Engine.