Liz Kinoshita
You can’t take it with you
Fr 2.3.2018, 20:30-21:30, MDT
Sa 3.3.2018, 20:30-21:30, MDT
3.17 million tons, that is the insane amount of garbage collected in Belgium every year. What part of that huge figure is necessary and what is downright wasteful? Canadian performer Liz Kinoshita is intrigued by this question and by the way this issue weighs on us physically, mentally and emotionally.
In "You Can’t Take It With You", Kinoshita explores what we need to survive in a sustainable manner. Along with three performers, she makes our behavior palpable and tangible, and translates the consequences of our everyday actions to the stage. Repetitive musical mantras and fast improvisations create a game of consumption, hoarding, holding on and refusing. Kinoshita emphasizes the opportunity we all have: we can change our behavior and reduce the weight of waste in our lives.
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.
Concept, direction
Creation, performance
Lighting design
Technique
Artistic advice
Executive production
Co-production
Vooruit (Gent, BE), MDT (Stockholm, SE), PACT Zollverein (Essen, DE) & SPRING in the frame of the European Network [DNA] DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union, Spring (Utrecht, PB).
Residencies
Autobahn William Wilhelm Caffee Dallas (Rosazza, IT), Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussel, BE), MDT (Stockholm, SE), Vooruit (Gent, BE), Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain (Brussel, BE).
With support of
The Flemish Government.
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