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Marina Fukushima is a dancer and choreographer based in San Francisco. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she immigrated to the US in 1992. From a cross-cultural perspective, her creative focus is on the themes of silence, family, and intergenerational relationships. She choreographed the work “Family Seasons” (2016) in collaboration with her parents (both visual artists) and was a resident artist in Beppu for the project “Things Evaporate - dances of sickness and health” (in collaboration with Isak Immanuel, 2018), at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland (2017), and at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei (with visual designer Olivia Ting, 2014) for “Room in a Pinhole.”
She has collaborated and performed with numerous companies and choreographers, including Kunst-Stoff, Lenora Lee, ODC, Christine Bonansea, Catharine Galasso, and Tableau Stations, in the US and internationally, in Germany, Greece, Korea, Peru, Taiwan, and Japan. She received a BFA from Butler University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.
Updated June 2019