Video from my workshop in Lisbon

Here some documents from my workshop in Lisbon last year.

FELIZ NATAL!

You Go Where You Should Go - 12, 13, 14 November, Contagiarte(Porto)

[vamos onde devemos ir]



performance/installation introduced by Hajime Fujita

12, 13, 14 November 2009
Festival TRANSdisse 2009 / Porto, Portugal

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We are living, here and now, wherever and whenever we are... even however we are.

We are different.
We have different life, different situation and condition of life.
Although, all we are living.

Living with family, lover, friends... Living with properties such as money, house, car... Living with a full of joy, pleasure, satisfaction... Living with fear, sorrow, pain... Or to be living under cold sky on the street...

Life is unfair, and difficult.

Then, what helps us?
To what can we ask a help?

This performance would formalize a space to show one body.
Life would be, of course, there on that body, and [hopefully/naturally] it would bring a moment we see a 'possibility'.

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Hajime Fujita
Choreographer, dancer and performance artist. Born in 1982, in Yokohama of Japan. His piece has been introduced in Centro Cultural de Bel ém(2009), Centro Cultural Malaposta(2009), Mandala Performance Festival(Wroclaw-Poland/2009), SKITe/Sweet and Tender in Porto(2008), Festa da Dança(Lisbon/2008), Festival Ananil(2008/2007), Maus Hábitos(2008, 2007, 2006) and other venues in Portugal, Japan, France and Spain.

Studied in Kyoto University of Art and Design for Performing Arts between 2001-2005. Participated PEPCC programme of Forum Dança in 2008. Participated international projects of danceWEB(Vienna, 2006), Pointe to Point(Warsaw, 2006) and SKITe/Sweet and Tender(Reims, 2007/Porto, 2008). Nominated for Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative programme(Geneva) in 2008.

http://hajimefujita.com

[Local/Date]
Contagiarte
Rua Álvares Cabral, 37219, Porto, Portugal

12, 13, 14 November
22h45 (to be confirmed)

[Organization/Production]
Terra na Boca - Cultural Association

[Co-Production]
+Art Link (Romania)
+Jardin'd Europe
with a support of European Union Cultural Programme
+Oficinas do Convento (Montemor-o-Novo)

[Support]
+Maus Hábitos (Porto)

Workshop "Open Your Body to All The Possibilities" + final presentation

Photo: Bartłomiej Bielecki

Aqui, neste momento, o quê e como vemos, ouvimos, cheiramos, tocamos, sentimos, pensamos, o que evocamos…?

É desnecessário referir que o corpo tem um sistema automático, que certamente influencia os nossos sentidos e a nossa cognição: muitas vezes não vemos o que estamos a ver. Por exemplo, é normal não pensar que o nosso coração bate a não ser que tenha um problema, sendo que a nossa perspectiva cria, normalmente, uma certa atenção que a “exclui” para fora do seu foco.

Este workshop de improvisação guiará os participantes na consciência da invisibilidade da nossa percepção. Mesmo antes de criar qualquer coisa de novo, posicionamo-nos sempre diante de inúmeras possibilidades. Por outras palavras, o workshop irá concentrar-se no “antes do movimento”, para que assim, possamos movimentar-nos livremente.

Especificamente em espaços públicos, estações do metro, praças, onde será feita a apresentação final do workshop, serão sítios onde sempre podemos descobrir muito desta “invisibilidade”.

Quem aprecia a arquitectura e a paisagem? Quem pensa na atmosfera desta plataforma? Quem vê as questões sociais dos aglomerados de pessoas que ali estão ou passam? A Arte pode estar lá presente.


Sample Videos of his Improvisation
http://hajifuji.ciao.jp/works_html/ff.html




Hajime Fujita
Hajime Fujita é choreógrafo e bailarino. Nasceu em 1982, em Yokohama no Japão.

As suas peças foram apresentadas no Centro Cultural de Belém(2009), Centro Cultural Malaposta(2009), Mandala Performance Festival(Wroclaw-Polónia/2009), SKITe/Sweet and Tender no Porto(2008), Festa da Dança(Lisboa/2008), Festival Ananil(2008/2007), Maus Hábitos(2008, 2007, 2006) entre outros, em Portugal, Japan, France and Spain.

Estudou na University of Art and Design for Performing Arts, em Kyoto entre 2001-2005. Participou no PEPCC do Forum Dança in 2008. Participou em projectos internationais de danceWEB(Viena, 2006), Pointe to Point(Varsóvia, 2006) and SKITe/Sweet and Tender(Reims, 2007/Porto, 2008). Foi nomeado para o programa Rolex Mentor e Protege Arts Initiative (Genebra) em 2008.

http://hajimefujita.com


Condições e datas do Workshop:
Sábado, 31 de Outubro
das 17h às 20h
e Domingo 1 de Novembro
das 10h às 18h
- às 18h Finaliza com a performance (em local público a definir com o criador) de entre 15 a 20 minutos.


Preço:
Para Guerreiros da Dança e outros alunos do Estúdio Mandinga 7a posição - 30€
Para alunos externos - 40€


Local: Estúdio Mandinga 7a Posição
R. de Sto António à Glória, 38 (metro Restauradores)


Inscrições e informações: dancaparapeles@gmail.com
919122371 / 931783435 / 966189406
http://www.artbetyou.blogspot.com

dontdiemyfriendtommy / Mandala Performance Festival in Wroclaw

Some parts of the piece "dontdiemyfriendtommy" is including in this promotional video of the festival.

I will be in Romania this month in July

After 2 weeks intensive group residency in O Espaço de Tempo(Motemor-o-Novo, Portugal), now I am almost leaving for Romania. In the frame work of Jardin'd Europe, and organized by ArtLink, I am invited for 3 weeks residency in Centrul Cultural "Palatele Brancovenesti" in Mogosoaia.
It also brings final presentation as well.

Precisely, I will work on the project "The Other/I don't know you.", but probably with much more different materials.

Ok, my dear, see you in Romania. :)

Synchronous Objects, Forsythe's new internet dance project

William Forsythe introduces his new internet dance project.
Seems cool, although what he is doing is different from me.

http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/

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.

Kotatsuneko

forgiveness

A lot of works, or a pressure from "a lot of works".
I was quite depressed last and this month sometime from my situation, especially from a lot of paper works!! I hate it.
Yes, but I'm getting better.

Just I started to read Jacques Derrida's "Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness", although I have not yet finished to read "Writing and Difference" :P
Forgiveness is very interested for me now. And also cosmopolitanism.... last month I read a book about a situation of immigrants in France(well, that was in Japanese though).
There's a lot I have to confront it. As a person, and (maybe... or hopefully) as an artist.
Somehow I will make an installation again in Instituto Franco Portuguese, as a consequence of my thought these days.

And I am also working with one Portuguese artists for her new piece. It would be shown on January.

Text of my Research about/around the idea of the other

This texts are displayed in Teatro Caros Alberto(Porto, Portugal) in the 3rd open house of SKITe/Sweet and Tender 2008, as a part of my installation of Resarch about/around the idea of the other.

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1

Na tentativa de criar relações com informação que já conhecemos, realizamos, no nosso dia a dia, qualquer tipo de coisas.

In our daily life, according to making a relationship with infomation we already know, we realize any kind of things.

In unserem taeglichen Leben nehmen wir unsere Umgebung in ihrer Gesamtheit wahr, da wir mit der Information vertraut sind.

私たちは日々の生活の中であらゆるものごとを、既に知っている情報と関連づけることで了解(realize)する。

2

Acontece que temos medo quando enfrentamos o desconhecido.

So, we get a fear when we meet up unknown things.

Deshalb bekommen wir Angst, wenn wir auf unbekannte Dinge treffen.

だから我々は何も分からない未知の存在、未知の領域に恐怖を覚える。

3

Na escuridão, um lugar nunca alcançado pela luz, nunca chegamos a descansar.

In the darkness where no light can reach, we never arrive to rest.

In der undurchdringbaren Dunkelheit, werden wir niemals Ruhe erlangen.

光の全く届かない闇の中で、安息は訪れない。

4

Este tipo de acções (ou auto-acções) acontecem porque precisamos de nos sentir em segurança. Então, muitas vezes, essas mesmas acções permitem-nos estar em contacto tanto o “desconhecido” como o “conhecido”.

This action(or auto-action) is because of to keep our security. Thus, often this action let us realize even “unknown things” as “known things”.

Diese Haltung (oder auch Reflex) existiert zu unserem Schutz. Sie laesst uns das Unbekannte oft als bekannt erscheinen.

この行為は自身の安全(security)を保全するためにある故に、しばしば本来「分からないもの」さえ「分かるもの」として了解しようと促す。

5

Por vezes, como consequência deste processo, acontecem “mal-entendidos” na nossa comunicação.

Sometimes a consequence of this process appears as “misunderstanding” in our communication.

Manchmal erscheint eine Konsequenz dieses Vorganges als “Missverstaendnis” in unserer Kommunikation.

その結果はコミュニケーションのレベルにおいて、時に「誤解(misunderstanding)」を生み出す。

6

O que é a discriminação? O que é o racismo? O que é a guerra?

What is the discrimination? What is the racism? What is the war?

Was ist Diskriminierung? Was ist Rassismus? Was ist Krieg?

差別とは何か。民族主義とは何か。戦争とは何か。

7

Mais ainda, quem é o outro?

Even more, who is the other?

Und ausserdem, wer ist der andere?

さらに加えて、他者とは誰なのか。

8

O outro não sou eu.

The other is not me.

Der andere ist nicht ich.

他者は私ではない。

9

O outro é diferente de mim.

The other is different from me.

Der andere unterscheidet sich von mir.

他者は私とは異なる。

10

O outro vem de um lugar que eu não conheço.

The other is coming from where I do not know.

Der andere kommt von einem Ort, den ich nicht kenne.

他者は私の知らないところからやってくる。

11

O outro é inesperado.

The other is unexpected.

Der andere ist unerwarted.

他者は予期し得ぬ。

12

O outro representa impossibilidades e possibilidades.

The other is impossibilities and possibilities.

Der andere steht fuer das unmoegliche und das moegliche.

他者とは不可能性と可能性である。

13

Apesar de tudo, temos que viver com o outro.

Although, we have to live together with the ohter.

Dennoch muessen wir mit dem anderen zusammen leben.

しかし私たちは他者と共に生きてゆかねばならない

14

Portanto, temos que ouvir a voz do outro. Temos que enfrentar a face do outro.

So we have to listen a voice of the other. We have to confront a face of the other.

So muessen wir auf die Stimme des anderen hoeren. Wir muessen uns mit dem Gesicht des anderen konfrontieren.

だから私たちは他者の声に耳を傾けねばならない。他者の顔に向かい合わなければならない。

15

O outro pede-nos sempre “Não me mates”. Este é o início da nossa ética.

Always the other asks us, “Don’t kill me.” It is the beginning of our ethic.

Der andere bittet uns darum: “Toete mich nicht”. Das ist der Beginn unserer Ethik.

他者は常に私に語りかける。「殺さないで。」　それは私たちの倫理の始まりである。

16

Eu “não matarei” o outro. Portanto, poderemos viver juntos.

I do “not kill” the other. Therefore we can live together with the other.

Ich toete den anderen nicht. Deshalb koennen wir mit dem anderen zusammen leben.

私は他者を「殺さないで」いる。それ故に私は他者と共に生きることができる。

Georgia, sadness is still on the globe

SKITe/Sweet and Tender Porto 2008

I would participate this collaboration project from 14th Aug. this summer in Porto.
web site: http://www.sweetandtender.org/

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Summary

Following the project held in PAF - Performing Arts Forum, in 2007, this second edition, co-launched by the Association SKITe and Sweet and Tender Collaborations, will gather 40 young artists from 26 countries and different performance-related disciplines during a period of a full month.
▪ Date: August 15th to September 20th 2008
▪ Place: Porto, Portugal
This project will bring together various institutional and non-institutional partners in Porto and open itself up to a wide range of international collaborations
▪ Theme: relation between artistic process & product through the creation of an environment based on constant showings and feedbacks.
▪ Primary purpose: A systematic experiment with modes of artistic exchange, creation and production inside a specific context provided by the hosts (Portugal, Porto)
Participants will engage in a practice of exchange and dialogue, open up their research to the others - from the formulation of their ideas to their referential sources, practices and concerns.

Events and activities
<laboratory>
▪ What Artistic experiments, research, workshops, dance classes, showings, feedback sessions, open house days, ...
▪ When August 15th to September 13th
▪ Where Porto: Teatro Nacional Sao Joao, 555, Maus Hábitos
▪ Duration One month

<running>
▪ What Remake of a performance choreographed by Meg Stuart in 1992
▪ When From August 17th to August 21st
▪ Where Porto: Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória (Teatro Nacional Sao Joao)
▪ Duration Five days

<fragments>
▪ What Public presentations of the work in progress
▪ WhenSeptember 12th and13th
▪ Where Porto: Mosteiro de Sao Bento da Victoria
▪ Duration Two days

<site-specific>
▪ What Residençial da Praça in the frame of FIMP festival: workshops, sound installations, radio show, ..;
▪ When September 14th, 15th and 16th
▪ Where Porto: Praça do Joao I
▪ Duration Three days

<debriefing>
▪ What Evaluation, General Assembly of SKITe/ Sweet and Tender Collaborations participants
▪ When September 17th to September 20th
▪ WherePorto: Mosteiro Sao Bento da Victoria
▪ Duration Four days

<diffusion>
▪ What International public presentations
▪ When February 2009 to May 2009
▪ Where Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Oslo
▪ Duration Long run

To the Day-to-day schedule

Objectives
<Short Term>
▪ Consolidation of Sweet and Tender Collaborations network sustainability in the long run.
▪ Deepen a collaborative dynamic (sharing resources and initiatives) among young artists from different nationalities and working with various media.
▪ Involving a local community in discovering how a creative process evolves.
▪ Testing the validity of an experimental and autonomous project inside a specific context establishing a direct interaction to Porto city.
▪ Exploring modes of public presentation of artistic works
<Long Term>
▪ Openness and deepening of dialogue with certain cultural institutions in Europe to increase the support for emerging models of research and production in artistic creation, and different practices of interaction between artists and art institutions
▪ European diffusion of the SKITe/Sweet and Tender Collaborations results on a European level through the diffusion of Fragments of Experiences project
▪ Follow up of the initial proliferation of artistic projects started and nursed in SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations in Porto – their further development.
▪ Research on European Financing to consolidate the structure of Sweet and Tender Collaborations as an artistic project and as a model of artist-led network organization

one dance/one video/one day 12/7/2008