Denise Fujiwara’s work as a dance artist has developed over 45 years of intensive practice, performance and study.  Her mentors include the late Japanese Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima and Yukio Waguri, and master dance pedagogue and dramaturg, Elizabeth Langley.  She has developed a practice of Butoh that artfully assists participants to experience deeply embodied movement through the cultivation of curiosity, the imagination, awareness and presence.  Her Butoh repertoire has travelled to 4 continents.  She has led workshops and master classes across Canada and the U.S.A., in Denmark, Poland, Germany, the U.K., Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and India. Noppera-bo, created with filmmaker William Yong, won a One-Reeler Short Film Competition 2020 Award of Excellence in Los Angeles and her live works, Eunoia and Moving Parts continue to tour.  She recently received the Canada Council for the Arts Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts and distinguished career achievement.