Butoh and Cyclic Experience
with Denise Fujiwara
March 24 - March 28 2025
12:00pm - 4:00pm
ABOUT BUTOH AND CYCLIC EXPERIENCE
Works of Japanese dance and theatre are often expressions of cycles of birth, life, death and re-birth. In this workshop we’ll explore the embodiment of cyclic existence through natural phenomenon like the water cycle and the ephemeral life of clouds and forests. We’ll explore how this can be manifested as dance and performance. (This workshop sold-out in November in Montreal.)
COST
$300
LOCATIONS
Pia Bouman School, 225 Sterling Rd, Toronto
*Subsidies are possible. Please enquire at info@fujiwaradance.com.
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Contemplative Dance
with Denise Fujiwara
Sundays, March 30
April 6, 13, 27 2025
10:30pm - 12:30pm
ABOUT CONTEMPLATIVE DANCE WORKSHOP
A movement workshop to open up possibilities for your body and mind. Guided by the Japanese dance -theatre principles of Butoh we cultivate embodied mindfulness through movement. With simple directions, we’ll move with curiosity, to expanding creativity and movement capacity. This work can be done at all levels and for both the beginner and experienced mover. Start from where you are and find joy in your movement.
COST
Full Session $75 | Single Session $25
LOCATIONS
Pia Bouman School, 225 Sterling Rd, Toronto
*Subsidies are possible. Please enquire at info@fujiwaradance.com
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Solo Dance Lab
with Denise Fujiwara
Sundays, February 2, 9,16, 23, March 2, 2025
12– 4pm
ABOUT SOLO DANCE LAB
This is a creative Lab for choreographers. Advance your choreography and creativity investigating creative process and practice for solo choreography. The art of the solo, the most challenging of choreographic forms, can bring one to the creation of dance in a way that is intimate, challenging and revelatory. Its process is a path to finding, developing and deepening one’s own voice as a dance artist. Through this Lab, which includes talks, homework assignments, informal showings and feedback, we give space to ask questions, experiment, and allow for trial and error, all in service of growing our knowledge, skills and ability to create solos.
CRITERIA
Open to choreographers with at least 3 publicly performed works. Choreographers who are interested should have a work in mind or in progress to focus on throughout the lab.
A cohort of 5 choreographers will be placed to optimize your experience.
COST
$450*
LOCATIONS
Feb 2 – 16 @ CCDT, 509 Parliament St, & Feb 23, March 1 @ Pia Bouman School, 227 Sterling Rd, Toronto
For enquiries and to apply for a spot, email fuj@fujiwaradance.com
Let us know if you’re interested. We’ll ask you for a short bio and a short description of the work you’ll be exploring through the Lab, 150 words each. We're looking forward to getting to know you and what you are working on.
Submissions will close midnight January 3, 2024.
*CADA rate and partial subsidy are available. Please enquire at fuj@fujiwaradance.com
​ABOUT DENISE FUJIWARA
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Denise Fujiwara’s work as a dance artist has developed over 40 years of intensive practice, performance and study. Her most influential mentors include the late Japanese Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima and Yukio Waguri, and master dance pedagogue and dramaturg, Elizabeth Langley. She has developed a practice of Butoh that artfully assists participants to experience deeply embodied movement through the cultivation of curiosity, the imagination, awareness and presence. Her Butoh repertoire has travelled to 4 continents. She has led workshops and master classes across Canada and the U.S.A., in Denmark, Poland, Germany, the U.K., Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and India. Noppera-bo, created with filmmaker William Yong, won a One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2020 Award of Excellence in Los Angeles and her live works, Eunoia and Moving Parts continue to tour. She is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Muriel Sherrin Award for international achievement in dance.