Yukiko Shinozaki is a dancer and choreographer, based in Brussels and Oslo. Her work focuses on internal complexities and contradictions of the body. The process of transformation takes an important role in her movement vocabulary: through subtle shifts and manipulations, familiar actions slowly transform into an unfamiliar realm/landscape. She considers artistic collaborations as an important factor in her work and she consciously integrate coincidental elements that arrive in encounters with different artists and situations. She often works in an intuitive way, yet she is also fascinated by something beyond her imagination

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Since 1996 Shinozaki have been collaborating with Heine Avdal and they formed a company fieldworks in 2000. They have created more than 25 productions and all the production have been touring internationally. The works of fieldworks are concerned with “performativity” and allow for an open interpretation of movement as a heterogeneous combination of a variety of media. Recurrent…