Denise Fujiwara‘s work has developed over 47 years of investigation into the art of choreography and the practice of dance.  Her most influential mentors include the late Japanese Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima and Yukio Waguri, master dramaturg Elizabeth Langley, and Roshi John Tarrant in Zen koan practice.  Her diverse body of work includes EUNOIA, a very verbal, conceptual dance work nominated for three Doras, and Noppera-bo, created with filmmaker William Yong, which won a One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2020 Award of Excellence in Los Angeles.  She has performed and taught across Canada and the U.S.A., in Denmark, Poland, Germany, the U.K., Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan and India.  She worked with Jacob Elordi in his interpretation of the Creature in Guillermo delToro’s film, Frankenstein. Denise is a recipient of the Canada Council’s Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts and distinguished career achievement