CONTEMPLATIVE DANCE WORKSHOP WITH DENISE FUJIWARA

DATES - March 12, March 19, March 26, April 2

TIME - 10:30am – 12:00pm 

$75 for the series or $25/class ($20 for CADA members)

A dance workshop to open up possibilities for your body and mind. Using Japanese Butoh and post-modern improvisation dance principles we cultivate embodied mindfulness through movement. With simple directions, we’ll move with curiosity, expanding creativity and movement capacity. This work can be done at many levels and challenges both the beginner and experienced mover. Start from where you are and find joy in your movement.

Denise Fujiwara’s work as a dance artist has involved 40 years of curiosity and investigation into the art of choreography and the practice of dance. Her mentors in choreography include Butoh masters, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri and master dance pedagogue, Elizabeth Langley. Fujiwara practices a Butoh that cultivates curiosity, the imagination, awareness, presence and deeply embodied movement. Her diverse body of work includes EUNOIA, a very verbal dance work created using an integrated Voice and Butoh practice developed with Gerry Trentham. It was nominated for three Dora and continues to tour. She has led workshops and master classes across Canada and in Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Cleveland, California, Copenhagen, Krakow, London, Germany, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and India.