Artist Bios
Photo: Matt Nalton
Tristan Ghostkeeper
Tristan, a proud Cree and Métis Indian, discovered his passion for dance at the age of ten and Judy Russell’s Enchainèment Dance Centre. After years growing up in Prince George, Tristan moved to Vancouver after being accepted to Arts Umbrella’s program. Recent theatre credits: Aida at the Royal Opera House, La Bamba! (UK tour), and Jack and the Beanstalk at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Film/ TV credits include: Schmigadoon (Appletv), Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (NBC), and Motherland (Freeform). Tristan also performed on the largest cruise ships in the world with Royal Caribbean, as well as being in inaugural casts of their newest shows.
Photo: Michael Kast
Erika Mitsuhashi
Erika Mitsuhashi is an interdisciplinary artist and performer living and working on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, known as Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts receiving a BFA (hons) in dance.
She has had the pleasure of interpreting the work of dance artists including Justine A. Chambers, Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance), Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs Danse), Rob Kitsos, Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) and Judith Garay (Dancers Dancing) in festivals and platforms such as Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Re-FUSE presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020.
Erika’s work has taken the form of performance for stage, installation, experimental film, site specific/responsive performance, scenography and projection design. Most recently she has been experimenting with live-stream video and digital spaces as sites for intimacy and choreography of attention.
Her work and collaborative projects have been presented locally and internationally by PAUL Studios Berlin, Powell Street Festival, Toronto Love-In’s PS:We are All Here series, Surrey Art Gallery’s InFlux, Kinetic Studio’s Open Studio Series, Shooting Gallery Performance Series, Upintheair Theatre’s rEvolver Festival and La Serre's OFFTA festival of live art. She has been supported by organizations including New Works, SummerWorks, VIVO Media Arts, plastic orchid factory, Dance West Network, Boca De Lupo, Theatre Replacement and Company 605 in the creation and development of her works to date.
Locally she engages with two diverse collaborative groups:
Mardon + Mitsuhashi and Erika Mitsuhashi & Francesca Frewer.