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Mitsu SalmonDay 2: Friday, October 21 at 7 pm
Day 4: Sunday, October 23 at 7 pm TICKETS AND SCHEDULE BACK TO FESTIVAL HOME PAGE Mitsu Salmon creates original performance and visual works, which fuse multiple disciplines. She was born in the melting pot of Los Angeles to a Japanese mother and American father. Her creation in differing mediums, the translation of one medium to another, is connected to the translation of differing cultures and languages.
Salmon received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. In 2005, she graduated from NYU where she majored in Experimental Theater, studying theater and visual arts. She was a core member of the Butoh dance group Ima Tenko and Kiraza for three years in Kyoto, Japan. She has lived in India, England, Germany, Amsterdam, Japan, and Bali. She has performed solo work at places such Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Highways Performance Space, and internationally at Hebbel Am Uffer, the Berlin Performance Art Festival, London Performance Art Festival, and Urbanguild in Kyoto, Japan. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Links Hall and has been an artist-in-residence at High Concept Lab. For the A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival, Mitsu will perform Tsuchi, a solo interdisciplinary performance piece. While exploring questions of family and travel through Butoh, contemporary dance, and everyday movements with music and text, Tsuchi draws from Mitsu's great-grandfather’s experience of immigrating from Japan to Hawaii as a farmer and attaining his dream of becoming a high-end waiter. The piece simultaneously examines and obscures his life and then branches out to stories of the Hawaiian queen and a steel guitar musician. The work is a collaboration between Mitsu and sound artists Alyssa Moxley, Kevin Carey, and Mike Hero. Development of Tsuchi was sponsored by High Concept Labs and supported by residencies at the Chicago Cultural Center and Oxbow. New City named Tsuchi the best collaborative multimedia dance performance in 2015. You can read more about Mitsu at mitsusalmon.com. TICKETS AND SCHEDULE BACK TO FESTIVAL HOME PAGE |