Making it up

Making it up is a performance anthology of abstract and personal investigations into identity and mixed-raced personhood.

Chapter 2’s working title is pop hime, a forgotten taste / quietly disappearing

in development

In-progress sharings as part of Mascall Dance’s Bloom Series 2021 & Dance West Network Showcase 2019.

Chapter 1 is titled The meeting.

The meeting observes themes of loneliness and existential tenderness. Playfully using a live-stream video feed and DIY-scenography Erika reveals an imaginative microcosm: a world built in isolation, where a sacred meeting ensues between a cosmic vibrant-being and their assigned flesh-being on Earth. The work attempts to collapse time and space, puncturing realities of where the performance exists -- the physical spaces where Erika and the audience exist, the microcosm, and the digital sphere -- reaching for a feeling of distant intimacy between Erika and the audience she is so glad to have present.

**Initial development through the response.’s dance cafe, for the 2020 DOTE Festival digital programming. Future development scheduled for 2021.**

Erika acknowledges the generous support from:

Theatre Replacement ⎮ Company 605 ⎮ PushOFF. ⎮ The Dance Centre ⎮ the response.

Additional Thank you’s to:

Dumb Instrument Dance/MORROW ⎮ Robert Andow ⎮ Daniel O’Shea ⎮ Ryan Walter Wagner ⎮ Remy Siu

February 2-6

24/7 access to microcosm

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Microcosm

February 5 2pm PST

Live streamed performance for 2021 PushOFF:Speculative Futures

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PuShOFF

IMG_7575 copy.jpg — *The Meeting*

**CREDITS:**
Created/performed by: Erika Mitsuhashi
Camera operator: Robert Andow
Sound design: Robert Andow & Erika Mitsuhashi (music: *Flicker Like Jewels* by Yamaneko, *Window Shades* by U.S. Girls, *Kaili - Fuck Buttons Remix* by Caribou & Fuck Buttons)

Instagram archive of microcosm activities and adventures of vibrant beings @emitsuhashi #pushOFF2021 #vibrantandfleshybeings #makingitup #speculativefutures

Vibrant being audience companions

In an attempt to feel through the spaces between myself and all of the spaces where the performance for the 2021 PushOFF Speculative Futures took place, I send out small vibrant being to be with inquiring audience members to be with them in their spaces.
Think of them as a plus one to the performance.
Please fill out the form below for post performance companions.

I’d like to acknowledge that the digital performance takes place in the digital sphere, on the land where you are and where I am. I am located on the traditional, ancestral and unceeded territories of the of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. I am grateful to the these nations who have cared for this land since time immemorial.