Mayumi Lashbrook: Foujita Foujita
Canada
Company: Aeris Körper
Choreographer, Director, Performer: Mayumi Lashbrook
Musician: Owen Moran
About Foujita Foujita
Foujita Foujita is a playful look at the life of Japanese French painter Léonard Foujita Tsuguharu. A man who straddled two countries, known for his absurd and iconic looks, Foujita and his vast portfolio is a treasured part of art history. Lashbrook pays homage to the painter’s heyday in Paris, France when he was living next to Modigliani and Soutine in Cité Falguière—the historic location where the film is shot. Foujita Foujita is a glimpse at a Japanese visionary building a legacy within Eurocentric standards during the Roaring Twenties.
About Mayumi Lashbrook
Mayumi Lashbrook (she/her) is a Japanese Canadian settler who seeks to expose, challenge, and rectify systems of oppression by creating innovative, introspective and inclusive dance theatre. She sees embodiment as at the crux of world making, providing alternatives to unconscious thought and oppression. Her primary practices span performance, choreography, and education. Mayumi is the Co-Artistic Director of Hamilton-based Aeris Körper, mentee of Denise Fujiwara of Fujiwara Dance Inventions and practitioner of Dreamwalker Dance’s Conscious Bodies methodology. She has choreographed for Dusk Dances, Guelph Dance, CanAsian Dance and self-produced a bi-city presentation of her work, Enemy Lines.