Takuya Fujisawa, who is still fresh in our minds from the “OpenLab DaBY Round Table Talk Case Study: Overseas Creative Environment” in December 2023, will hold his first creation workshop at DaBY in 2024. The workshop is designed for dancers and creation using “SKUMITATE” premiered in March as material. Instead of learning repertoire, the workshop will be based on improvisation and partnering, sharing the research methods and training that Sweden-based Fujisawa and his colleagues usually use, and collaborating on creations. On December 28, the final day of the workshop, a showing will be held to present the results.

◆About “SKUMITATE”

I do not believe in the existence of mutual understanding.But I believe in our willingness and effort to understand each other.It is also my daily life in Sweden as an immigrant.Our daily relationships are misunderstandings, realizations,We learn and grow through repetition of corrections and minor mistakes.Visualizing this relationship through the dancer’s body is a part of my creative process.It forms the nucleus.

SKUMITATE.focuses on making the invisible visible.It can also be described as “changing the way you look at things.Seeing what is not there,Imagine what might be there,And make them imagine what is hiding behind it.

This work was done in collaboration with various artists in Japan.Based on one of the techniques, “seeing”,It was created by mixing the puppeteer’s technique with the dancer’s physicality.The name of the work, SKUMITATE, is composed of two words: SKUM and regard. The name of the work, SKUMITATE, is composed of two words: “SKUM” and “look. SKUM.”is Swedish for “bubble” and at the same time “strange people or behavior,It is also slang for “heterogeneous. See for yourself.”is a technique that removes the original meaning and superimposes it on another.And if you superimpose the Swedish and Japanese expressions,A strange perspective,This would mean Gentile perspectives and actions.The Japanese reading of “SKUMITATE,” which connects the two, is “kusomidate.will be

In this workshop we will work with participants to create creations based on the ideas used in SKUMITATE . How can we build relationships? While identifying the characteristics of our collaborators, we will work together to create a common language. The work that is created in this way is our experience itself.

◆Schedule

Warm-up and open class (single class available)

12/23 (Mon.) –12/28 (Sat.) 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Creation Workshop (must be attended in its entirety)

12/23 (Mon.) – 12/28 (Sat.) 10:30 – 17:00 (1 hour break)

*Saturday, 12/28, 17:00 – Showing

*Please contact us if you have any questions about the schedule or partial participation.

Showing + Post Talk

Saturday, 12/28, 17:00-18:00

◆Creation Workshop Application Requirements

Dancers. Minimum of 3 years experience in any genre.

Interested in research and creation.

In principle, participants must be able to attend all days from 12/23 to 12/28.

Must be able to perform at the showing on 12/28.

◆Rates

Warm-up and Open Class

1 class 2,500 yen

All day 10,000 yen

Creation Workshop

All day 12,000 yen

Showing viewing

free

◆How to apply

Applications will be accepted through DaBY’s Peatix page.

https://peatix.com/event

*DaBY members registration is required to apply. Please register here in advance.
*Please note that once tickets have been purchased, they cannot be cancelled, refunded, or changed by the customer.
*You can apply for tickets until midnight the day before the event. Please note that tickets cannot be purchased at DaBY on the day of the event and cannot be reimbursed on the day of the event.

◆Venue

Dance Base Yokohama (https://dancebase.yokohama/access)

3F KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa

Directly connected to “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot”, Exit 2a, Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line

◆Inquiries

Please contact us at the e-mail address below or by filling out this form.

contact [at]dancebase.yokohama

*Please change [at]to @ when submitting.

◆Artist Profile

Takuya Fujisawa

@ashleyxaina

Takuya Fujisawa is a dancer, choreographer and scenografer.
Born in Kumamoto Japan, based in Göteborg, Sweden since 2015. He founded research platform CRAFT with Beda Åsbrink in 2020.
His current work connects artists from different categories, sharing and refining various ideas.

BEDA ÅSBRINK

@ashleyxaina

Born in Sweden, he is a founding member of CRAFT. Studied at BALETTAKADEMIEN in Gothenburg. With a background in theater and contemporary dance, she has worked with choreographers such as Fernando Melo, Lisa Penkova, and Nicole Naidert.

◆Credit

Choreography/Composition: Takuya Fujisawa

Choreography assistant: BEDA ÅSBRINK

Music: EMILIANO SACRIPANTI, Takuya Fujisawa

Stage design: Shogo Hirata, Takuya Fujisawa

Lighting Design: Takuya Fujisawa

Co-organized by Takuya Fujisawa, Dance Base Yokohama

Residence cooperation: Dance Base Yokohama

Supported by Swedish Arts Grants Committee