The Dance Communication Lab at Vitlycke-CPA in Sweden, organized within the Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project, will take place from 25 to 27 September 2025. The workshop will conclude with a public showing at Vrångsholmen on 27 September.

Dance Communication Lab (DCL) is a three-day workshop-exchange organised within the Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project, focusing on dance improvisation as an important component of the creative process in contemporary dance. DCL at Vitlycke-CPA in Sweden takes place on 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.

On the final day of the Dance Communication Lab (DCL) workshop, the 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.

The lab will feature the following dance artists:

• Dora Šesto (Croatia)

• Dorottya Podmaniczky (Hungary)

• Ina Wojdyła (Poland)

• Neža Kokalj (Slovenia)

• William Säfström (Sweden)

• George-Alexandru Pleșca (Romania)

The workshop is led by choreographer Liz Kinoshita. Building on Liz Kinoshita’s twenty years of experience performing in multidisciplinary creations, the DCL workshop focuses on presence, groundedness, and the ability to pivot in instant compositional setups, to surprise oneself through rigorous scores, structures or a ‘cage’ to set oneself ‘free’. During the workshop, participants study 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 has worked with ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal and others, and created her own work with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin F. Kennedy and Salka Ardal Rosengren. Her practice focuses on musicality in dance, including live performances shared nationally and internationally. Her creations include VOLCANO (2014), Radical Empathy (2017), You Can’t Take It With You (2017), 11 O’clock (2021) and 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 initiatives advocating 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.

Date and Venue

Location: Vrångsholmen, Sweden

Date: September 27, 2025, at 17:00

-> For more details, please refer to the HERE:2025 International Performing Arts Festival’s website.

The Dance Communication Lab is realized within the framework of the Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery project.