Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Dont miss your chance to sign up to our next Contemplative Dance series. Starts Sunday 8th March at 10.30am.

More information on our website 🔗fujiwaradance.com

👀 Looking to dive a bit deeper into your practice? Join us for our upcoming intensive, Moving Improvisation into Performance.

This week long workshop will develop your movement improvisation skills and apply them to choreography and performance situations. This is a practice in opening potential, finding specificity, and getting out of our own way.

This is a workshop for practitioners of movement, physical theatre and other creative pursuits.

March 23 - 27, 10am - 2pm at CCDT

Registration: $275

Link in bio for more details and registration

📣Announcing a new series of Contemplative Dance workshops coming up! 📣

Join us for Contemplative Dance:

A movement workshop to open up possibilities for your body and mind. 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.

On Sundays, March 8, 15, 22 and 29 from 10:30am - 12:30pm
at CCDT

🔗 www.fujiwaradance.com for more info and to register

Bravi to Augusto Bitter on their upcoming premiere of Reina, their Solo Dance Lab work brought to fruition!!! I can't wait to see how Reina has evolved❣️

Please join us in congratulating our wonderful Artistic Director Denise Fujiwara who is this year’s recipient of the .council Walter Carson Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts! 🏆

On receiving this honour, Denise shared:
“The call from the Canada Council gave me great joy and hope in the midst of a calamitous year. My 99-year-old mother, who had been my first dance teacher, had a series of medical emergencies and had moved into palliative care. When I whispered into her ear that I had won the Walter Carson Prize and thanked her for her part in my receiving it, she lifted my hand and gently danced it in the air at the news. Days later, she passed away peacefully.”

Denise is amazed and grateful. Many, many thanks to all who have supported her creative work over the days and decades.

Congratulations, Denise! 🌟

📸: Denise Grant

Seeking one more participant for Solo Dance Lab!

Deadline extended to January 12, 2025 for one more choreographer to take part in this 5 week series.

Are you working on a solo work? Are you stuck in your process? And needing challenge or accountability? Join this cohort to ask questions, experiment and allow for trial and error within the most challenging of choreographic forms.

Sundays, February 2, 9,16, 23, March 2, 2025
12– 4pm

Full info ℹ️ at www.fujiwaradance.com
Email 📧 [email protected] for questions and registration

🌟 Last chance to join this cohort of 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,

CRITERIA: Open to choreographers with at least 3 publicly performed works. Choreographers who are interested should have a work in

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 [email protected]. Submissions will close midnight January 3, 2025. ⏰
*CADA rate and partial subsidy are available.

⏰ time is running out to submit for Solo Dance Lab ⏰

Here’s what participants say about working with Denise…

“The training was so skillfully led that Denise was seamlessly able to incorporate multiple perspectives into many performance modalities, but more importantly, into our lives writ large!”

If you’d like to work with her on a solo work, submit to [email protected]

Company dance Sylvie Bouchard shares her reflections from Solo Dance Lab...

“This lab brought in a curiosity and a freedom that I never expected. I experienced a state of ‘no judgement’, which was incredibly liberating. It has changed me as an artist and has deeply inspired me.” - Sylvie Bouchard,

Invest in your choreographic practice and join us for the five weeks session of Solo Dance Lab, running Sunday Feb 2-Mar 2, 2025. Each week we’ll meet 12-4pm with a cohort of 5 choreographers to engage in the art of the solo, the most challenging of choreographic forms.

ℹ️ More info at www.fujiwaradance.com

📧 express your interest to [email protected] by January 3, 2025

Join us for solo dance lab! We’re seeking a cohort 5 choreographers, express your interest by January 3, 2024 by emailing [email protected]

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.

The lab will occur:
Feb 2, 9, 16 @ CCDT, 509 Parliament St, & Feb 23, March 1 @ Pia Bouman School, 227 Sterling Rd, Toronto

🔗 www.Fujiwaradance.com for more info

📆 Sundays, February 2, 9,16, 23, March 2, 2025, 12–4pm

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 [email protected]
Submissions will close midnight January 3, 2024.