Mitsu Salmon's

Somatic Tracings

Performance and gathering bringing together the Asian and Asian American community in Utah around the exhibition Somatic Tracings

The event is co-hosted by UMOCA, OCA, JACL.

Somatic Tracing is an exhibition and performance drawing from the history of the building of the transcontinental railroad to notions of invisible Asian labor and healing. Salmon collaborates with four Asian American performers, who embody and converge these stories with their own. They create an elusive choreography and actions that are ever-transforming, fluctuating between the autonomous and collective.

~utahmoca.org

(Following photography courtesy of Jesse Merideth)

Mora and Huang dancing on a bench with a wall covered with a collage of posters.

Kim and St. Pierre in a shape looking up toward two of Salmon's works on canvases that are on wheels.

Huang shares a story of her ancestor wile Kim dances atop a table.

Kim and St. Pierre dance with a mobile canvas of Salmon's.

St. Pierre shares a story of her grandmother and mother while Mora dances.

Huang in a reaching backbend while Mora mimics the backbend balancing on a stair railing.

Mora with an arm poised as if throwing a dart in front of a work by Salmon that has hues of purple, rust red, and royal blue.

The Utah Review

When Salmon and four Asian American dance artists (Hannah Huang, Jonathan Kim, Joshua Mora and Kellie St. Pierre) begin the performance in the gallery space, the holistic visual experience immediately is clarified and the show evinces an elucidating cohesion. The dance performance highlights the unique character of Butoh. It is a deliberately slow yet organic procession of excruciatingly determined movement that parallels the stages of acknowledging, comprehending, accepting, reclaiming, affirming and healing a historical legacy that should never again be sanitized nor forgotten.

~Les Roka, The Utah Review

Click here for the full review

Mitsu Salmon

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 American mother and Caucasian father. Her creation in differing mediums, the translation of one medium to another, is connected to the translation of differing cultures and languages.

For more visit mitsusalmon.com

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