Denise Fujiwara, choreographer, dancer, actor, teacher and artistic director, is one of the most diverse talents to evolve on the Canadian dance scene. Denise is a master of Butoh dance, a twentieth-century Japanese form in which dance and theater have never been separate. 

"Butoh is a modern form," explains Fujiwara, "but its principles are diametrically opposed to those of contemporary dance. In this choreographic process, we will train the body and the imaginationby working from vivid internal conditions expressed through intense physicality.  Using Butoh as a foundation we work to reveal the dance's inner life of authenticity, depth and paradox, and to express one’s humanity in all of its irrationality, ugliness, beauty and mirth."