Water on the Bridge

09/28/2022

Extremely looking forward to performing October 16th at Yucca Valley Material Lab!! We are traveling with 10 cellos to Joshua Tree in October to make work in the desert. Stay tuned for 'Augmented Geology', an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opening in November!!

Please join us on Sunday Oct. 16th at 5pm as ⁣Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl (Chicago) present new performance work for ten broken cellos, responding to as well as creating with the sounds and landscape of the desert. Both accomplished cellists, composers, and improvisers, their shared practice takes a performative approach to the cello as an object, including a series of works for cellos in public pools.⠀
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Tickets are $10 - $20 sliding scale. DM to reserve a spot.⠀
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⁣Cellist Katinka Kleijn is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Active in improvisation, composition and multidisciplinary art, she is a Drag City recording artist.⠀
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Lia Kohl is a cellist and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs embodied music and performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, and sculptural objects. She tours internationally, working in theatre, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts.⠀
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05/14/2020

Friday 5/15 8pm CST dish gloves cellos bathtubs Lia Kohl Katinka Kleijn Experimental Sound Studio Quarantine concerts
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05/17/2019

So wonderful to see this review of Water on the Bridge!!

Chicago Artist Writers is a platform that asks artists and art workers to write traditional and experimental criticism that serves under-represented arts programming in Chicago.

04/16/2019

New website https://www.wateronthebridge.com, check it out!!

Water on the Bridge is a surreal and playful exploration of tenderness, violence and letting go through the unlikely pairing of cellos and water. An ongoing project now with three iterations, Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl create site specific work exploring the possibilities of cellos in and around bo...

03/24/2019

We went swimming last week...and can't stop thinking about it.
Photos by Todd Rosenberg.
Lia Kohl Daniel R. Dehaan Katinka Kleijn, Cellist

03/24/2019

We went swimming last week......can't stop thinking about it! Incredible images by Todd Rosenberg
Lia Kohl Daniel R. Dehaan Katinka Kleijn, Cellist

03/22/2019

Gorgeous choice of pictures by The Strad—thank you Todd Rosenberg Photography !!

Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl perform Water on the Bridge, a devised theatre and music piece, in and around the Eckhart Park pool in Chicago. The performance represented the first full-scale iteration of a project the two cellists have been working on since 2016, incorporating 'elements of theatre, mo...

03/20/2019

We appreciate people’s concern about wastefulness and these cellos, and we want to clarify: all of these cellos were unplayable when we got them and they continue to be unplayable. The few cellos we found that could be fixed up have been fixed and donated to schools, since we want people to experience the joy (that we share) of playing the cello. The others were trash and have been turned into art!

Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl perform Water on the Bridge, a devised theatre and music piece, in and around the Eckhart Park pool in Chicago. The performance represented the first full-scale iteration of a project the two cellists have been working on since 2016, incorporating 'elements of theatre, mo...

03/17/2019

Thanks to everyone who came out to Water on the Bridge last night! It was incredible to share such a vulnerable and transformative piece with so many people.
Photos by the wonderful Todd Rosenberg Photography Todd Rosenberg (more to come!)

03/16/2019

We’re a classical performance slash aquatic concert!! ✅🤘

Because of the ongoing strike by the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, all activities at Symphony Center through Sunday, March 17 have been canceled, including the weekend’s subscription concerts under music director Riccardo Muti and the Sunday matinee chamber concert with violinist An...

03/16/2019

Tonight!! 7pm, 1330 W. Chicago FREE

Katinka Kleijn discusses Water on the Bridge, which she and Lia Kohl perform at Eckhart Public Pool on Saturday.