Mitsu Salmon is a current loveDANCEmore artist in residence. She 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. 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.
The audience arrives in a steel factory’s yard comprising stacks of large steel bars, machinery, and dirt. We are greeted by a young man who hands us goggles, which are mandatory for the performance. To his left is a keyboard with four keys taped down and dried orange […]
