BLOOM 2021 presents:
7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca
Introducing choreographer Erika Mitsuhashi:
"Having a platform that provides me with time and an audience to interface with my work at a critical moment of development is invaluable. I am inspired by Jennifer's expansive practice and to re-visit old ideas and follow research threads. Mascall Dance has provided my practice with support that is essential and meaningful."
ERIKA MITSUHASHI
(she/her/hers)
ERIKA MITSUHASHI is a dance artist of Mixed heritage (Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, First Nations) based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations. She holds a BFA in dance from SFU School for the Contemporary Arts.
She has had the pleasure of interpreting the work of dance artists, including Justine A. Chambers, Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance), Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs), Rob Kitsos Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance), and Judith Garay (Dancers Dancing).
As a maker, her practice spans disciplines using the body as a site for conceptual thematics including in-betweenness, intimacy, the materiality of the body/spaces, pseudo-science, and DIY performance tactics. Erika’s work and collaborative projects have been presented locally and internationally by PAUL Studios Berlin, Toronto Love-In, Surrey Art Gallery, Kinetic Studio, New Works, and La Serre's OFFTA festival of live art.
She has ongoing collaborations with fellow dance artists Alexa Mardon (Mardon + Mitsuhashi), Francesca Frewer and is co-artistic director of Farouche collective.