Denise Fujiawara is one of the lead Collaborators in the production of "Defined by Bone" presented at the JCCC in 2021.
Denise Fujiwara choreographs, dances, teaches and presents dance. EUNOIA, her multimedia adaptation of Christian Bök’s award winning book was premiered by World Stage at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, received three Dora nominations, was one of NOW’s Top 5 Dance Shows of 2014, and is touring nationally. In 2015 she was a soloist in the Luminato Festival's extravaganza, Apocalypsis, directed by Lemi Ponifasio. International commissions include ensemble works created for la Compania Nacional de Costa Rica and eX-it ’11 in Germany. Solos created for her by Japanese butoh masters, Natsu Nakajima and Yukio Waguri toured to four continents. She teaches Butoh, performance and improvisation in Toronto and abroad and was an adjunct professor of Graduate Studies at York University. In 2014 The Theatre Centre gave her a Tracy Wright Global Archive research award and the opportunity to do dance research walking the 88 Temples Pilgrimage in Shikoku Japan. In 2013 she received the Toronto Arts Foundation Muriel Sherrin Award for international achievement in dance. She is the founding Artistic Director of two organizations; Fujiwara Dance Inventions which supports her choreography, performance and teaching work, and the CanAsian Dance Festival, an organization that supports the development and of Canadian choreographers who create work with Asian roots and ideas. She also conceived and co-facilitated the organization of Choreographers’ Network-Toronto in 2018. www.fujiwaradance.com
