is a choreographer and performer from Lithuania, currently working between Cologne and Vilnius. Combining research in movement, language and vocal practice, her works deal with shapes and patterns of thinking and reading the world. She is interested in questioning the historical, political and social fabrics that tailor our sense of the self. Liza’s works have been shown in festivals such as New Baltic Dance (Vilnius), Batard (Brussels), Almost Summer Festival (Kortrijk), Radiant Nights (Antwerp).
As a performer, she collaborated with Eszter Salamon, Christine De Smedt, Lenio Kaklea, Ula Sickle, DD Dorvillier among others. She is continuously engaged as a pedagogue and mentor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.

During her residency in Kintai, Liza is working on research around the emotion of fear and its manifestation in the individual as well as collective body. Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources- Chinese medicine, polyvagal theory, hasidic singing, somatic psychology, socio-cultural analysis – she traces how fear gets stuck in our organs, discourses, relations and political imagination. She is searching for playful movement and vocal practices to transform fear into other emotions.

Kintai Arts residency programme for individual projects