Nationalität: Japan
Adresse: Toronto - Canada
Website: www.fujiwaradance.com
Artistic Director: CanAsian International Dance Festival
Adjunct Professor: York University, Graduate Degree Program
Choreographer, dancer, actor, dance teacher, dance presenter
Represented by:
Adina Herling Arts Management 416-593-4710
Noble Caplan Abrams Agency 416-920-5385 - for film and television
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Dance), York University, Toronto, 1979
Union Affiliations: ACTRA, Canadian Actor's Equity, Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists
PERFORMANCE
2010 LOST & FOUND, Danceworks, Enwave Theatre, Toronto, Neighbourhood Danceworks, St John’s, Newfoundland
LOST &FOUND, NO EXIT, Live Arts Halifax, Capitol Theatre
Moncton, Osprey Arts Centre, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
SUMIDA RIVER, City Opera Vancouver
2009 KOMACHI (excerpt), SooRyu Festival, Enwave Theatre, Toronto
2008 SUMIDA RIVER, Festival of Dance in Anthropology, Krakow, Poland, Mudanza4, San Jose, Costa Rica, CanAsian Dance Festival, Enwave Theatre, Toronto
2007 SUMIDA RIVER, Festival Internacional de Teatro, Manizales, Colombia, New York Butoh Festival
WATER, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver
2006 KOMACHI, Internacional de Danza, Quito, Ecuador, Vancouver International Dance Festival
CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa, Peterborough New Dance
SUMIDA RIVER, Peterborough New Dance
2005 KOMACHI, Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto
LATE FALL, Premiere Dance Theatre, CanAsian Dance Festival and Glenn Gould Studio, for Via the Salzburg Chamber Music Series
CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival
2004 CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, fFida, Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival
SUMIDA RIVER, The Other Festival, Chennai, India, Festival Internacional de Danza, Quito, Ecuador
2003 SUMIDA RIVER, Dansescenen Traces PostButoh Festival, Copenhagen,
High Performance Rodeo, Calgary
2002 BRIEF INCARNATIONS, DanceWorks, duMaurier Theatre, Toronto
SUMIDA RIVER, Cleveland Public Theatre, Vancouver Powell Street Festival
SOMETHING for NOTHINGness, Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival
2001 HEROIC GARB and INTIMATE MARCHING, CanAsian Dance Festival, Toronto;100 Minutes Dancing, National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
SUMIDA RIVER, New Dance Horizons, Regina
LEPAGIAN IDEATION, Festival of World Leaders, Toronto
2000 SUMIDA RIVER, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Seattle International Butoh Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto
1999 ELLE LAMENTS, site-specific at the St. John's Summer Dance Festival, Newfoundland
UNEARTHED, site-specific at State University New York for the Arts in Education Institute of Western New York.
SUMIDA RIVER, LiveArts Productions, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1998 ELLE LAMENTS, site-specific at the National Gallery of Canada, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Stanley Park, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver
1997 ELLE LAMENTS, solo concert, du Maurier Theatre Centre, Toronto
SUMIDA RIVER -excerpt, Asians in the Americas Dance Festival, Dance Place, Washington D.C.
1996 SUMIDA RIVER, duMaurier Theatre Centre, Toronto
INTO THIN AIR, Dance Ontario Weekend, Pemiere Dance Theatre
1995 Canadian Tour - VANISHING ACTS in Vancouver, Courtney, Hornby Island & Nelson, B.C., Winnipeg, Manitoba,
SUMIDA RIVER, Tangente, Montreal, Residency in Moncton, N.B.
UNEARTHED, Today's Japan, Harbourfront, Toronto
1994 SUMIDA RIVER, solo concert. Choreography by Natsu Nakajima, Canada Dance Festival, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
UNEARTHED, Danceworks, duMaurier Theatre Centre, Toronto
1993 VANISHING ACTS, solo concert. Choreography by, William Douglas, Judy Jarvis, Peggy McCann, Paula Ravitz and Denise Fujiwara, CIBC Dance Season, Premiere Dance Theatre, Toronto, McMaster University, Hamilton
1991 DanceWorks, Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto, Soloist
Earth Spirit Festival, Harbourfront, Toronto, Soloist
1990 EXPO '90, Osaka, Japan, LOUD COLOURS
1988 - 1992 SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, solo concert. Choreography by Ginette Laurin, Judy Jarvis, Judith Marcuse, Paula Ravitz, Muna Tseng and Denise Fujiwara, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax, Buffalo,
1978 - 1989 Principal dancer and soloist Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise (T.I.D.E.), Toronto, and on tour throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico
Theatre
2000 THE YOKO ONO PROJECT, Theatre Passe Muraille – Helen
Film & Television
2009 CANTICLE FOR RAIN, a short dance film,co-directed with Allen Kaeja
1994 - 2007 film and television acting credits available on request
1993 WALLS, a documentary on the life and work of Denise Fujiwara, CBC Sunday Arts Entertainment
1990 Lead role, choreographer, dancer, Yuko Tanaka, DANCE TO REMEMBER, CBC Inside Stories
Voice Over, "OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET", TVO
1988 Lead role, Karen Sasaki, "THEN/NOW", CBC Inside Stories
CHOREOGRAPHY
Dance
2010 LOST and FOUND, commissioned by the CanDance Network of Presenters with DanceWorks, Live Art Productions Halifax, Neighbourhood Danceworks St. John’s, Peterborough New Dance
2007 NO EXIT, DanceWorks, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront,Toronto
Arrhythmia, Older & Reckless, Toronto
2005 LATE FALL, for Via Salzburg Chamber Music Series
2004 CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, commissioned by the Canada Dance Festival
2003 FLOTSAM & JETSAM, Montreal Asian Heritage Month Festival
2002 SOMETHING for NOTHINGness, DanceWorks, Toronto
2001 LEPAGIAN IDEATION, Festival of World Leaders, Toronto
ONE STEP FORWARD, STEPS BACK, commissioned by Hari Krishnan
2000 WATER, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa
1998 WELLSPRING, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa
1997 A BODY OF WATER, duMaurier Theatre Centre Series
1994 UNEARTHED, DanceWorks, Toronto
1993 AUTOGRAPH, created with William Douglas. Nominated for Outstanding New Choreography Dora Mavor Moore Awards
1991 "INTO THIN AIR" presented at Danceworks, Toronto
"FACE OF THE ENEMY" commissioned by the Earth Spirit Festival, Toronto
1990 "LOUD COLOURS" for Expo '90, Osaka, Japan
1978 - 1989 Artistic Director, T.I.D.E., participating in the collaborative creation of 32 original dances
Theatre Choreography
1998 "1000 CRANES", Carousel Theatre, Pierre Tetrault, Director
1997 “LITTLE SISTER”, Theatre Direct Canada, Diane Roberts, Director
1996 "THE GIRL WHO LOVED HORSES", Theatre Direct Canada, Richard Greenblatt, Director
1994 "COLOURS IN THE STORM", Tapestry Music Theatre, R. Greenblatt
1993 "CHARMING AND ROSE: TRUE LOVE", Nightwood Theatre, Kate Lushington, Director
1992 "NAOMI'S ROAD", Young Peoples Theatre, Dennis Foon, Director
Production nominated for six Dora Mavor Moore Awards
2009 York University MFA Dance; Chateau Butoh, Quebec City
2008 York University MFA Dance; School of the Toronto Dance Theatre; Festival of Dance & Anthropology, Krakow, Poland; Compania Nacional de Danza, Costa Rica
2007 Native Women in the Arts, Toronto; Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver; Highlands Opera Studio, Haliburton, Ontario; Los Danzantes, Bogota, Colombia; University of Utah
2006 Festival Internacional de Danza, Quito, Vancouver International Dance Festival, World Dance Assembly, Toronto, Peterborough New Dance, Chateau Buto, Quebec City, University of Toronto Drama Dept.
2006 – present Contemplative Dance Workshops, Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Toronto
2005 The Other Festival, Chennai, India
Festival Distrital de Danza Contemporanea, Bogota, Colombia
2004 York University, University of Calgary, Festival Internacional de Danza, Quito, Union Dance Co, London, England
2004 – present Embodiment, Butoh-based dance Workshops, Fujiwara Dance Inventions
2003 DansenHus, Copenhagen, University of Lethbridge, University of Calgary, Springboard, Calgary, DARE Toronto
University of Lethbridge – lectures, lecture-performance - Butoh
2002 Dance Arts Research Experiments workshop, Toronto, Cleveland – Butoh based improvisation
2001 York University Theatre Department – butoh based improvisation
Ryerson Polytechnic University – lecture, Butoh
Regina, New Dance Horizons – butoh based improvisation
Native Women in the Arts Conference – butoh workshops
2000 Vancouver International Dance Festival, Seattle International Butoh Festival – butoh workshops
1990 - 2000 The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre, Improvisation
1999 - 2000 St. John’s, Nfld. Residency, Kittiwake Dance Theatre - dance Improvisation and performance
1999 Halifax Residency, LiveArt Productions - Butoh, Improvisation for Actors, Dance Improvisation
1998 - 2000 Dance Arts Research Experiment (DARE) Study Groups, Toronto - Advanced Improvisation and butoh
1998 Lecture, York University Dance Dept., Dance Anthropology - Butoh
Lecture, York University Dance Dept., The Dance Experience - Butoh
Complete list available on request.
TRAINING
Butoh Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri
Nihon Buyo Sensui Kozakura
Contemporary Dance Norrey Drummond, Sandra Neels, Toronto, Sara Shelton Mann, San Francisco
Ballet Karen Bowes-Sewell, Grant Strate, Sandra Caverley, Earl Kraul, Toronto, Alfredo Corvino, Maggie Black, Zena Rommett, New York, Maureen Stewart, Scarborough
Improvisation Mangrove Dance Collective, Byron Brown, San Francisco, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, Massachusetts, Natsu Nakajima, Tokyo
Choreography Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Tokyo, Elizabeth Langley, Montreal, Anne Bogart, Johanna Boyce, Simone Forti, New York, Robert Cohan, London, England, Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise and Judy Jarvis, Toronto
Directing & Acting Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, New York, David Rotenberg, Kevin McCormick, Richard Greenblatt, Diego Matamoros, Toronto
Bodywork Esther Myers, Yoga,
Martial Arts Tai chi chuan - yang and wu styles
Voice Katherine Duncanson, David Smuckler
2008 - present Board of Directors, Harbourfront Centre,
2005 – 2008 Canadian Dance Assembly, National Council
1997 – 2003 Board of Directors, Vice-Chair, Dance Umbrella of Ontario
1997 - 2002 Board of Directors, President, CanAsian Dance Festival
1997 - 2000 Dance Advisory Committee, Canada Council for the Arts
1990 - 1993 Board of Directors, Toronto Arts Council, Co-Chair Dance Committee
1988 – 2002 Board of Directors, Judy Jarvis Dance Foundation
1988 – present Awards juries and artist panels for the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Dept of Canadian Heritage
1972 - 1976 Canadian Rhythmic Gymnastics Team. Competed, performed and trained in the USSR, USA, Romania, Bulgaria, West Germany, Sweden, Finland, Spain, and throughout Canada
AWARDS
2010 Adjunct Professorship, York University Graduate Program
1995 - present Canada Council for the Arts grants, Ontario Arts Council grants, Toronto Arts Council grants, Laidlaw Foundation
2006 Toronto Arts Foundation Future Winners Award
2003 Chalmers Foundation Study grant
2001 Dora Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography to Tedd Robinson and Outstanding Dance Performance D. Fujiwara for HEROIC GARB & INTIMATE MARCHING.
1995 Gemini Award for Best Performing Arts Program for WALLS, Metro Cultural Grants,
1994 Canada Council Touring Grant, Ontario Arts Council Grants to Dance Initiatives, Japan Foundation, National Association of Japanese Canadians Special Initiatives Award
1993 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
Dora Award nomination for AUTOGRAPH,choreographed by William Douglas with D. Fujiwara
Complete list available on request