Spring Roll festival Mardon + Mitsuhashi: whereverever

Spring Roll: Mardon + Mitsuhashi: whereverever

Performance at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of the Spring Roll festival
Fri 26.4. at 19

Tickets: 5–25 €

Tickets from Ehkä’s Holvi-shop. There are five different ticket price categories from which you can choose the price most suitable for your situation. Ticket price categories: 25 €, 20 €, 15 €, 10 € and 5 € (PWYC).

whereverever is a new work by Canadian choreographers Mardon + Mitsuhashi – the collaborative entity of Alexa Mardon and Erika Mitsuhashi. Across a sixteen-minute video and forty-minute dance performance without intermission, whereverever playfully traces possible beginnings and belonging by following the question “How did we get here?”.

Researched and filmed on location in their respective ancestral places (Finland and Japan), in whereverever the makers open themselves up to instruction: celestial, familial, and invisible. whereverever is a spell to activate the technologies of dreaming, dancing, and fabulating what one doesn’t and cannot know – treating the gaps and absences of settler-colonial erasure and disruption as valuable knowledge too.

The video, a docu-poem recorded partially with a newly obsolete 3D camcorder disrupts and queers the conventions of family-history-documentary, honoring disorientation as an approach, and play as a guiding principle. In the dance performance that follows and is accompanied live by Sasha J. Langford, Mardon + Mitsuhashi dance a practice called ‘blurring’: staying in the continuous present side by side, hosting known and as-yet-unknown dances to appear in bodies. Imperfect unison becomes a devotional practice, a study of the histories we hold in our bodies and the futures we are conjuring together.

Mardon + Mitsuhashi comprises interdisciplinary artists and performers Alexa Mardon and Erika Mitsuhashi, who have been collaborating since 2015. Their work takes many forms including performance, installation, set design, and publication, and is rooted in friendship and relational transformation through their dedication to leading creative processes that foster physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual autonomy with collaborators. Their work has been presented in collaboration with The Dance Centre, Made In BC, Surrey Art Gallery, OFFTA, SummerWorks, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and Western Front.

The festival follows Ehkä-production’s safer space guidelines. Unfortunately, the space at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo is not fully accessible; there are stairs and no accessible toilets at the venue.