Liza Bielby (b. 1980, Flint) lived in twenty-one houses before she was 21. In response to that childhood disorientation, her work as a performer, performance-maker, and translator organizes around a search for roots in ever-increasing circles of inquiry: from her own body to the neighborhood where she lives and works to notions of national cultures and international identities. At the root of her creative practice is daily physical and vocal training with collaborator Richard Newman as The Hinterlands that uses embodied metaphor, exhaustion, and form to catapult the performer into irrational spaces. Her layered, disorienting, sometimes hilarious, and delightfully Midwestern performance work was recently seen at MOCAD (Detroit), the Shanghai Biennial (Shanghai), Co-Prosperity Sphere (Chicago), White Night (Chengdu), the Berlinale (Berlin), P! (NYC), and was listed in the “Top 10 Exhibitions Across the U.S.” by Hyperallergic in 2016. She is a graduate of Dell'Arte International.