Liz Kinoshita

You can’t take it with you

A person standing in a landscape of trash, wearing an orange safety suit and an oxygen mask

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. Her practices focus on musicality in dance, working with live performances shared (inter)nationally. 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 most recent creation Saga Saga (2024) premiered in Brådjupa Festival in Blekinge (SE). Liz presently organises a monthly event höjden nights presenting multidisciplinary artists within a convivial context.

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Concept, direction

Lighting design

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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