Dance Communication Lab

On the final day of Dance Communication Lab (DCL) workshop, six participants from across Europe - representing Sweden, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania - come together to share the work they have developed with choreographer Liz Kinoshita (CA/BE). This improvised public showing takes place at Vrångsholmen, a historic building now transformed into a creative space. Join us to experience improvisation, movement and artistic ideas born from three days of collaboration and exploration.

DCL is a 3-day-long workshop-exchange organised within Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project that focuses on dance improvisation as an important component of the creative process in contemporary dance. DCL at Vitlycke-CPA takes place 25-27 September. The aim of this workshop is to give six professional dancers from Beyond Front@ partner countries the opportunity to get to know each other through dance improvisation. The dancers for this workshop have been selected following an open call, attracting a wide range of talented performers.

The workshop is led by choreographer Liz Kinoshita. Building on Liz Kinoshita’s twenty years of of experience performing in multidisciplinary creations, the DCL workshop focuses on presence, grounded-ness, and the ability to pivot in instant compositional set ups, to surprise oneself through rigorous scores, structures or a ’cage’ to set oneself ’free’. During the workshop, participants have studied principles from artists such as Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, Chrysa Parkinson, Meg Stuart, as well as Liz Kinoshita’s own improvisation. The workshop explores the histories and habits each person carries—consciously or unconsciously—and investigates how these can be deviated from when desired, so that performativity is not presented by default or accident, but emerges as deliberate and responsive.

Liz Kinoshita 

Liz Kinoshita is a Canadian/Belgian choreographer, performer, pedagogue and dance advocate currently based in Sweden. She's worked with ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, among others, and created her own work with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin F. Kennedy and Salka Ardal Rosengren. Her practices focus on musicality in dance, working with live performances shared (inter)nationally. Her creations include VOLCANO (2014), Radical Empathy (2017), You Can't Take It With You (2017), 11 O’clock (2021), Saga Saga (2024). Liz was Artistic Associate with Rosas for West Side Story (2020) on Broadway (NYC). She created Midnight Oil (2024) for and with Norrdans, with original composition by Twin Shadow AKA George Lewis Jr. Liz has organised as an advocate for dance communities through groups such as State of The Arts, voices for dance, and Danscentrum Stockholm. She presently organises höjden nights presenting multidisciplinary artists within a convivial context at höjden studios in Stockholm.

DCL is organized within the framework of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery - a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.

Beyond Front@ is funded by the European Union. Vitlycke-CPA's participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Kulturrådet and Västra Götalandsregionen.

More information

Beyond Front@
Website: Beyond Front@
Facebook: Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery 
Instagram: @beyondfronta.eu

Liz Kinoshita
About: Liz Kinoshita
instagram: @lizkinoshita