Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts and the International Performing Arts Festival HERE:2025 invites dancers and choreographers to join Dance Communication Lab (DCL) at Vitlycke-CPA, Sweden, 25-27 September 2025. Dancers from Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery partner countries: Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Sweden are welcome to apply.
What is DCL?
DCL – Dance Communication Lab is a 3-day-long workshop-exchange that focuses on dance improvisation as an important component of the creative process in contemporary dance. The aim of the DCL is to give 6 professional dancers from partner countries the opportunity to get to know each other through dance improvisation.
DCL at Vitlycke – CPA – improvisation workshop with Liz Kinoshita (CA/BE)
DCL Vitlycke will take place 25-27 September 2025, in connection to the International Performing Arts Festival HERE:2025. Building on Liz Kinoshita’s twenty years of of experience performing in multidisciplinary creations, the workshop will focus 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’. Participants will study principles from artists such as Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, Chrysa Parkinson, Meg Stuart, as well as Liz Kinoshita’s own improvisation principles.
The workshop will start with physical engagement to get the heart pumping, blood flowing, and body ignited in a studio space. It will establish a safe lab for learning through proposing, action, repetition, and generously formatted discussion around the reverberations each attempt creates as participants witness one another in practice. It will explore the histories and habits each person carries—consciously or unconsciously—and investigate how these can be deviated from when desired, so that performativity is not presented by default or accident, but emerges as deliberate and responsive.
This workshop will culminate in a public showing on 27 September, at the end of the International Performing Arts Festival HERE:2025.
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.
Who is the DCL for?
The DCL is for aspiring professional dancers and dance artists from Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery partner countries: Sweden, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Romania. The Dance Communication Lab will select one dancer from each country.
When and where?
24 September – arrival day to Vitlycke-CPA
25 – 27 September – DCL
27 September – public showing of DCL within HERE:2025
28 September – departure day
The lab will take place at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Vitlycke gård 3,
Tanumshede, Sweden). More info about Vitlycke-CPA: www.vitlycke.org
What do we offer?
Vitlycke – CPA provides:
– Accommodation for four nights, 24 – 28 September;
– Catering during the stay, 25-27 September.
The Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project national partner from your country of residence will cover:
– Travel costs;
– Artistic fee in the amount of 150 EUR.
How to apply?
Apply to DCL via this Google Form.
Application deadline: 12 June 2025.
All dancers will be notified by e-mail within 2 weeks after the deadline.
Main contact for practical questions and information: opencall@vitlycke.org
The Dance Communication Lab 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), Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples – HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania), and Vitlycke – CPA (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
