Improvisation Dance Workshop in Porto/Montemor-o-Novo - June

Improvisation Dance Workshop by Hajime Fujita
"Open Your Body to All The Possibilities"



First of all this atelier focuses on "before the movement". Namely, exploring what we can interpret to the movement, what possibilities of dance actually we are having as of momentum.

The main issue is that, "what we are seeing and what we are NOT seeing?" The atelier starts with opening participants' eyes to our perception. Always the participants would try to remind the possibilities which each of them already has but which he/she is not noticing well. Internal information of our mind, intention, sense, cognition, memory, history, society etc. and outside information of physical shape, rhythm, materiality, human body(existence of the Other) etc. This atelier would guide a pathway to engage and entangle all those information as possibilities of movement.

info/video http://hajifuji.ciao.jp/workshop.html

PORTO
Inscription: 45 euros (36 euro for the friends of NEC)
* Please inscribe until 27th May, hurry!

1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 Jun 2009 - 18h-21h
Espaço NEC/Fábrica Social - Rua da Fábrica Social s/n 4000 201 Porto
+351 961424668 / +351 913211428
nec@nec.co.pt
http://www.nec.co.pt

MONTEMOR-O-NOVO
Inscription: 15 euros

16, 17, 18, 19 Jun 2009 - 19h-22h
Centro Juvenil Montemor-o-Novo - Av. Gago Coutinho 58, Montemor-o-Novo
+351 266 898 100(ext. 309)
hajimefujita.official@gmail.com

visible/invisible

This is a video installation project, collaborated with Thelma Bonavita(Brazil) in 2007.

How to write a CV

Even work in a shop, bar or restaurant will involve working in a team, providing a quality service to customers, and dealing tactful with complaints. Don't mention the routine, non-people tasks (cleaning the tables) unless you are applying for a casual summer job in a restaurant or similar.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv.htm

YES!

Forgiveness

Derrida says:

One cannot, or should not, forgive; there is only forgiveness, if there is any, where there is the unforgiveable. That is to say that forgiveness must announce itself as impossibility itself. It can only be possible in doing the impossible.

-On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, P.32

NEVE GORDON: How to Sell "Ethical" Warfare

NEVE GORDON: How to Sell "Ethical" Warfare

One of my students was arrested yesterday and spent the night in a prison cell. R's offence was protesting the Israeli assault on Gaza. He joins over 700 other Israelis who have been detained since the beginning of Israel's ruthless war on Gaza: an estimated 230 of whom are still behind bars. Within the Israeli context, this strategy of quelling protest and stifling resistance is unprecedented, and it is quite disturbing that the international media has failed to comment on it.

Simultaneously, the Israeli media has been towing the government line to such a degree that no criticism of the war has been voiced on any of the three local television stations. Indeed, the situation has become so absurd that reporters and anchors are currently less critical of the war than the military spokespeople. In the absence of any critical analysis, it is not so surprising that 78% of Israelis, or about 98% of all Jewish Israelis, support the war.

f/f in São Bento da Vitória(Porto, Portugal)

This is from a SKITe/Sweet and Tender 2008 in Porto this summer.

Speech for my installation's opening event

Feliz Ano Novo!!

I just wrote a text for the speech of my installation's opening event today.
I think this is the most clear and simple text so far which says what I mean in my piece.

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This piece is a discourse about the Other.
I avoid to explain my piece, how it has been developing.
Instead, I try to talk about the Other.

The Other helps me. The Other loves me. The Other hates me. The Other sometimes hearts me.
The Other is always coming from where I do not know. I can not expect anything, even I already know something about or around the Other, that does not mean I know him or her.
I do not know.

The question is, how I can live together with the Other.

While I am talking, hundreds of bombs are exploding in Palestine.
It seems, we can not find a way to live together.

Look his/her face, which always asks us "don't kill me.".
What we can do is just we do "not" kill him/her.
In order to reach there, we have to see his/her face.
Or at least we should be conscious that we can see his/her face.

Needless to say, always there is a difficulty of forgiveness.
There is the unforgiveable, surely.

Even so, I hope we can draw our dream, here and now.