Immaterial World

Julyen Hamilton is a dancer, choreographer, musician and teacher whose influential career spans more than four decades. Trained in London during the experimental dance scene of the 1970s, he has become internationally recognised for his pioneering approach to improvisation, creating performances in which movement, text and composition emerge in real time. He has created over one hundred solo works, numerous group pieces and long-term collaborations with dancers, musicians and theatre artists. Through his company ALLEN'S LINE, he develops performances that combine choreographic precision with spontaneity and immediacy. Alongside his work in dance, Hamilton is an accomplished writer and musician, regularly performing with leading improvising musicians including Barre Phillips, Fred Frith and Tristan Honsinger. His artistic practice moves fluidly between dance, language and music, making him one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary performance.