UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Contemplative Dance Workshop - Resilience
The abilities to be rooted and yet bend with the flow of things is much needed in these times of rapid change. Enjoy moving with openness, awareness and freedom, notice how your body will change in response to creative prompts and challenges.
DATES
October 20, 27, November 3, 10 | 10:30am – 12:30pm
LOCATION
Studio C, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
509 Parliament Street, Toronto, ON
COST
Full Session – $75
Per Class – $25
ABOUT DENISE FUJIWARA
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.