Acclaimed works that move with images, words and music.
VALLEY OF SHADOWS PREMIERE
After several years of international film festival screenings and awards, we’re excited to bring Valley of Shadows home for its first public screening in Toronto with Dance:Made in Canada’s Dance on Film+Video Screening – Starting From Where We Are. We’re excited to be programmed along with 5 diverse Canadian shorts exploring the search for belonging and strength.
Please join us in celebrating our Canadian Premiere!
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board call
Fujiwara Dance Inventions are looking to expand its small but dynamic board.
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Active Repertoire
Moving Parts
A new work by Denise Fujiwara that blends choral singing, music and dance. Premiered at Dusk Dances.
Eunoia
Created by Denise Fujiwara
Premiered March 2015, WorldStage Series Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Workshops
Contemplative Dance
Movement workshops to open up possibilities for your body and mind. Guided by the Japanese dance-theatre principles of Butoh we cultivate embodied mindfulness through movement. This work can be done at all levels and for both the beginner and experienced mover.
Intensive Workshops
Intensive workshops investigate embodied aspects of improvisation, creative process, performance and Butoh. Each workshop has a particular focus and recent workshop formats have included explorations into the use of improvisation within composition, creative obstacles, timeless form, embodied voice practice, and Butoh
Solo Dance Lab
Advance your choreography and creativity investigating creative process for solo choreography. Through this Lab, which includes talks, homework assignments, informal showings and feedback, we allow time to ask questions, experiment, and allow for trial and error, all in service of growing our knowledge, skills and ability to create solos.
Films
Love Learn Listen
Love Learn Listen is part of a larger dance and choral work called Moving Parts. That work was created in response to the growing polarizations about fundamental issues that friends and families are discovering are subjects they can no longer discuss together without conflict. From the question, ‘What I can do on a personal level?’, we created this song and this dance video.
Valley of Shadows
Valley of Shadows follows a man as he travels back to the landscape of his childhood, the Badlands of Alberta, Canada, a place characterised by layers – geological, historical and personal.
Noppera-bō
A short film created by William Yong and Denise Fujiwara. Noppera-bō is a faceless ghost, a fantastical creature that sows fear.
Longing
A new collection of solo dance films
Commissioned by Fujiwara Dance Inventions
Canticle for Rain
The bluffs on the north shore of Lake Ontario are constantly changing and collapsing. Clad in clay amidst the elements of sand, lake and cloudy sky, woman appears at dawn.