Join Love-In for two days of workshops with Liz Kinoshita, Justin F. Kennedy and Vincent Jonsson... 

november 15, 2022  ↓

session with Vincent Jonsson | 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

at Winchester Street Theatre (theatre space)

80 Winchester St, Toronto, ON M4X 1B2

*hosted by Liz Kinoshita + company

november 17, 2022  ↓

session with Liz Kinoshita | 10:00am - 12:30pm ET

session with Justin F. Kennedy | 1:15pm - 3:45pm ET

at Trinity-St. Paul's (gym)

427 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1X7

session fees  ↓

abundant $35 + (donation)

supporter $30

regular $25

reduced $20

solidarity $0-10

accessibility ↓

Trinity-St. Paul's is fully accessible on the main floor, including access to the gymnasium and public washrooms. While the Winchester Street Theatre is working towards accessibility updates, it is not currently wheelchair accessible. Individuals using mobility devices may find it challenging to access the theatre. To access the theatre, there are three stairs outside of the front entrance, a small platform, and then three more stairs to the lobby, followed by a straight hallway that leads you to the theatre. Gender-neutral restrooms are available, and there are five stairs to access them at the end of the lobby.

covid-19 ↓

Masks are recommended during the sessions.

about the sessions ↓

session one: The class I (Vincent Jonsson) teach focuses on how to move around and through ourselves, how to travel through the space, both in the vertical and horizontal plane, how to work with jumps, runs, turns and slides. One term to describe the class is floor-work, but I also work with principles that can be applied in relation to a partner. The class it self is energetic and deals with tools from both contemporary dancing, flying low, martial arts and other related movement practices.

session two: Mechanisms of the musical In this workshop we will focus on vocal practices, lyric generation, and musicality paired with contemporary dance. We will do thorough warm-up exercises, work on instant composition, and writing with more time for reflection, play with melody, harmony and percussive accents, and pair the results of these materials with physical propositions, in trios, duets, and solos. My proposals come from a research study I did in 2013, and since then have used in several creations I've made with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin Kennedy, Bryana Fritz. The idea behind the term 'mechanism' is that these are tools I have used originally from musicals I love, applied to contemporary dance material and themes I care about. I aim for the workshop to give the participants a peek into our creative process and to energize them with a full experience.session three: Justin F. Kennedy will share their practice of Auto-mythologizing and how the material generated translates into lucid science fiction operas. Auto-mythologizing continues a line of research about durational dance and the experience and analysis of altered states of consciousness and its further translatability into live performance. The Auto comes when the practice is so deeply embodied that it becomes second nature or automatic. The myth-making emerges after physical exercises (prompted by images, tasks and movement qualities), when the participants exchange stories, archetypes, and impressions without judgement nor hierarchy. Lucidity is an essential aspect of the work and only arises once the participants have exhausted their constraints and habits. These emergent mythologies inform and are folded into pre-existing science fictions and lay the foundation for rock operas, as well as a deeper relation to the materials. Justin’s work reclaims the value of a-live experience that disrupts notions of individual authorship, in favour of collaboration that expands towards, with, and for others.

about the artists ↓

Liz Kinoshita was born in Toronto, Canada and moved to Europe in 2002. She studied at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium between 2004 and 2008. Liz has since worked with ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, Good Move/Eleanor Bauer, Hiatus/Daniel Linehan, among others, as well as making her own work with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin F. Kennedy, and Salka Ardal Rosengren. In 2013 she started her research into the mechanisms of the musical. In 2014 she created VOLCANO, a contemporary dance backstage musical performance. In 2017 Liz premiered Radical Empathy (commissioned by Den Danske Scenekunstskole) and You Can't Take It With You, an in-the-round performance about waste vs necessity. Liz was part of the artistic team for West Side Story on Broadway, choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and directed by Ivo van Hove. Liz's new creation 11 O'clock is set to be shared on stage and screen in 2021-2023.

Justin F. Kennedy aka JK (1983) is a Berlin-based dance/vocal artist, teacher and DJ originally from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. With a playful and collaborative approach, their research evolves from experiences and analysis of trance dance and its further translatability into workshops, science fiction operas, durational dance installations and film. In 2006, they earned a BA in Dance and Ethnic Studies from Wesleyan University and in 2013, an MA in Choreography from HZT Berlin. Justin's notable projects of late include Some Murder Theatre in Here, Volksbühne Grüner Salon, Berlin (2020), UNFURL: a lucid sci-fi opera, BB11 (2020) and SPUR: a fashion western (Winter 2021). They have performed intimately with and for Emma Howes, Ligia Lewis, Louis Vuitton, Tino Sehgal, Adam Linder, Liz Kinoshita, Jeremy Shaw, Josh Johnson, BODYSNATCH, Faustin Linyekula, Jeremy Wade, Peaches, Wu Tsang amongst others.

acknowledgements ↓

Banner photo credit: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker