AIRMW Artist Presentation Series – Rika Lin

For the Artist Presentation Series, Rika Lin (Fujima Yoshinojo) will be presenting a talk on her work with a short excerpt of a dance.

Rika Lin aka Yoshinojo Fujima (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, dancemaker, creative producer, and Grandmaster in Fujima-style Japanese classical dance. She is a part of the postwar Japanese American diaspora. Her process and art springs forth from a complete immersion in traditional practice which has continued for over 35 years.  She has performed her original works and collaborations at various venues such as Links Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, Pritzker Pavilion, Harris Theater, UrbanGuild (Kyoto, Japan), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, where she premiered her full-length work “Asobi: Playing within Time” (2018). Her works embody identity and tradition through performance as does her teaching practice in nihon buyo.  Her processes focus on questioning and challenging roles, identity, convention, and tradition in the contemporary context using dance, music, film, VR, and traditional Japanese arts media.

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The first season of the AIRMW Artist Presentation Series highlights our in-house and close collaborative artists. Each person will be presenting their artistic practices with a performative element followed by a discussion moderated by AIRMW Executive and Artistic Director, Tatsu Aoki. Curated & organized by Kioto Aoki. Full Spring Schedule

March 3 – Caleb Willitz

March 24 – Rika Lin

April 7 – Kioto Aoki

April 14 – Kishino Takagichi

May 12 – Haruhi Kobayashi

All presentations are on Monday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm