Liz Kinoshita

Saga Saga

Dancer standing in the middle of the picture. One hand is in front of the chest, the other hand in the air. The dancer is wearing a red dress.

Photo: Simone Alexandra Ærsøe

We 11.6.2025, 18:00-19:00, MDT - Studio 1

Fr 13.6.2025, 18:00-19:00, MDT - Studio 1

This solo pays homage to the words of wisdom, tactics for survival, and bravery of women who have come before and will come after. The work recognises the perseverance of women in struggles such as reproductive rights and the general warfare on their bodies, as well as private hardships and emboldening testimony. In a setting where the front is everywhere, the work is delivered with love and respect for dance. It is an intimate sharing of sad songs and stories that resonate.


Inspired by the resilience of the women in her life, Saga Saga is a solo by Liz Kinoshita honouring particular female perspectives through the ages and is partly based on the book Caliban and The Witch by Silvia Federici (quoted with the author's permission). Caliban and the Witch is a radical, feminist re-telling of history that reveals how the witch hunts, colonialism, and the rise of capitalism brutally reshaped women’s bodies and labor to serve the emerging modern world.

Liz Kinoshita

Liz Kinoshita is a Canadian/Belgian choreographer, performer, pedagogue and dance advocate. She has 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, striving to create work that is reflective, surprising, and energising. 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 presently organises höjden nights presenting multidisciplinary artists within a convivial context at höjden studios in Stockholm.

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Concept, Choreography, Performance

Light Design

Outside Eye

Fabián Barba

Music

Jonny Greenwood

,

Asa-Chang

,

Kotringo

Residencies

Dans i Blekinge (Ronneby)

,

höjden studios (Stockholm)

,

MDT (Stockholm)

Executive Production

Elin Arvidsson

With support from

Konstnärsnamnden

Sincere thanks to

Aileen Burns

,

Ariane Clark

,

Yumiko Funaya

,

Ray Kinoshita

,

George Lewis Jr

,

Erik Nevin

,

Izabel Lïnd

,

Therese Lïnd

,

Silvia Federici

,

Rebecca Yates

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