
BIO
JULYEN HAMILTON

His work is mostly improvised : he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them.
His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. When working with his company ALLEN’S LINE he directs dancers and lighting designers to make and perform work through this same immediacy. With his company ALLEN’S LINE, he has been performing “GOAT OCEAN” in Rome, Paris, Bruxelles and France during 2023 and their new work “CHILD of DAY” has shown in Paris and Bruxelles during 2024.
Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe. (Barre Phillips, Fred Frith, Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore…) It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is at present performing the solos ‘INTERVIEW’, ‘HELD DEAR’ and “a KOAN for our Times” performing with bass player Barre Phillips, Nuria Andorra and Jordina Millá amongst many others.
As a pianist he plays regularly with Hamilton Carroll in Berlin and Brussels. Their first cd ‘POINTER’ was released in 2016. His label ‘BLUEDOG PUBLISHING.net’ produces videos of his performances on DVD, CDs and print. His new poetry album ‘Jack Gets Out of Prison’ with bassist Wilbert de Joode was released in 2018 and ‘The Road to Amarillo’ piano/text/bass with Giorgos Kokkinaris released in 2022.
performances making
Since 1990 I have made more than 100 solos which have been seen all over the world. They are an original interplay between dance, live text, and decor. Each piece is made specifically for each venue thus harnessing the architecture and ambience of the performing arena as forces which support and amplify the inherent themes of the piece.
solos
In this work the voice is one which comes naturally from the body in motion;
from a mind which is housed in a dancing body.
It is the voice of the itinerent more than the sedentary being. I sense that the intelligence of the mover comes from the whole body thus the rational lives alongside a vision of things as they change - as they are being and becoming.
duets
It was never my intention to make so many duets. Practicalities and offers just led me there and over the years i have greatly enjoyed the intimacy and challenge to be so directly in harmony and conflict with one single other´on stage!
COMPANY
Over the years I have had three companies, the present one based in Brussels, Belgium is named: 'Allen's Line'. As director of the group, I develop a communal language where movement and text constantly intertwine as they are passed amongst us; it is our way of manifesting a sharing of the imagination.
Choreographies for others
I have also been invited to choreograph for other dancers and to collaborate with other directors. Pieces made in this context have included:
'No Man's Gone Now' for Opiyo Okach ;
'Queen' for Françoise Leick.
TEACHING
My teaching work comes straight from the stage experience; it goes deeply into the compositional aspects of creativity through the areas of the physical body, space, time, dramaturgy and voice.
music making
My work with musicians includes much rich work as a dancer and in recent years, as poet/voice artist. (see Lily's Band, Marjolaine Charbin, Wilbert de Joode). It has been a pleasure to perfom with amongst others : Barre Phillips, Michael Moore, Fred Frith, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Humair, Alfred Spirli, Xavier Garcia, Christian Reiner, Jean-Claude Jones, Vladimir Volkov, Tristan Honsinger, Sebi Tramontana, Axel Dörninger, Ritsche Koch, Roy Carroll, Núria Andorra, Jordina Millá.
poetry
I have always written poetry and yet rarely have I published it. In the last few years, with the poetry readings with Lily's Band in Amsterdam, I started making music to accompany recordings of some of the poetry. Venturing for months into the world of recording and composing, I eventually produced a whole range of tracks;
in 2011 the CD of poetry and music "The Edge of Letters" was released on the Sibyl Sings label in Holland.
music
Venturing for months into the world of recording and composing, I eventually produced a whole range of tracks;
in 2011 the CD of poetry and music "The Edge of Letters" was released on the Sibyl Sings label in Holland.
In 2018 he released the double cd with Wilbert de Joode ¨Jack Gets Out of Prison.
and in 2022 he will release a cd of piano with bassist Giorgos Kokkinaris ¨The Road to Amarillo