Choreography

2025 1st - 31st June 

at CENTRO COREOGRAFICO CANAL Research residency

25 August – 14 September

at Kulturhuset Pigalle, Nässjö Riksteatern Produktionsresidens Dans

Premier 2026 spring

Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer: Beda Åsbrink, Mplulu Ntuve, Joseba Yerro Izaguirre and Takuya Fujisawa

Music: Emiliano Sacripanti

Dramaturgy: Nina Rajabi

Set / costume design: Shogo Hirata, Takuya Fujisawa

Drawing: Takuya Fujisawa

Production: Takuya Fujisawa, Possibilitas

Suported by CENTRO COREOGRAFICO CANA

 and Riksteatern

SKUMITATE outreach project no3. 

with Balettakademien Göteborg D3

Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa

Assistant choreographer: Beda Åsbrink

Music: Emiliano Sacripanti (AEMIA)

Costume design: Shogo Hirata and Takuya Fujisawa

Set design: Takuya Fujisawa

Photo: Nadim Elazzeh

Premier: 2025 May 23rd at Balettakademien Göteborg

This work is based on one of the Japanese theatrical techniques called "MITATE" and mixes the puppeteer's technique with the dancer's body. The project has been growing since 2022 with ongoing research and the addition of new artists each time. This is not one complete work, but rather artists from different genres, each representing a factor in our society, and with the change of performers, a completely different relationship emerges. Because it is the meeting of these different styles that is the recreation of our everyday life. How can we weave each other? We work together to create a common language, while identifying the characteristics of our co-stars. The work created in this way is our experience itself.

In this time I have invited the Balettakademien D3 for this journey. We will create a new work with 10 dancers under the concept of Transforming Perspectives.

The title of the work: “AMANEKU”. In old Japanese, it means “wide" or “universal”, also "Commonplace"

This project is should not be seen as a completed work. 

The artistic process is kept alive by inviting new participants with other skills and expressions – a reflection of society at large where relationships are inherited and at the same time transformed. 

SKUMITATE -ärvda relationer byter skepnad- gives body to what we cannot yet see, or fully understand, but feel.

2025 March at Atalante (Göteborg)

7th: 19:00 (Premier) Sold out!

8th: 19:00 Sold out!

Week 40 (October 1-7) tour to Örebro, Karlskoga, Kävesta folkhögskola

Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer: Beda Åsbrink, Mplulu Ntuve, Gustav Borehed and Takuya Fujisawa

Actor: Alexander Hopman Lilja

Music: Emiliano Sacripanti (AEMIA)

Dramaturgy: Nina Rajabi

Costume design: Shogo Hirata and Takuya Fujisawa

Set design: Takuya Fujisawa

Lighting design: Diblik Rabia

Docmentation: Emiliano Sacripanti

Photo: Nadim Elazzeh

Poster logo: Shogo Hirata

Production: Takuya Fujisawa and Possibilitas

Suported by Göteborg city, Atalante and Stora teatern

SKUMITATE is based on the Japanese technique "mitate" and mixes puppetry techniques with the dancer's body. The work will remove the boundaries between puppets and humans, tap and contemporary dance. The work explores the dialog between the dancer and the material.

Ett tvärdisciplinärt möte av olika konstnärliga uttryck i ett verk som hela tiden rör på sig. ...read more

review by Linda Brelin

Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer: Beda Åsbrink, Gustav Borehed, Endre Schumicky and Takuya Fujisawa

Puppeteer/Acter: Alexander Hopman Lilja

Music: Emiliano Sacripanti (AEMIA)

Scenography: Takuya Fujisawa

Costume: Shogo Hitrata and Takuya Fujisawa

Lighting design: Diblik Rabia and Takuya Fujisawa

Dramaturgy: Nina Rajabi

Poster & logo: Shogo Hirata

Film: Donovan von Martens

Photo: Nadim Elazzeh

Supported by

Konstnärsnämnden, Västra Götalandsregionen Göteborgs stad, Kulturrådet, Region teater Väst, Stora teatern Göteborg and Alias teatern

Produce by TAKUYA FUJISAWA and Possibilitas

2024 

March at Regionteater Väst

15th / 16th 

April at Alias teatern Stockholm

12th / 13th / 14th

August 9th

Performance and Presentation at PLATTFORM + MALMÖFESTIVALEN

Place: Palladium, Södergatan 15

Performer: Beda Åsbrink, Mpululu Ntuve and Takuya Fujisawa

August 29th

Performance and presentation at Swedish Dance Experience in Tanzmesse 

Sammlung Philara, Birkenstraße 47a

Performer: 

Alexander Hopman Lilja, Beda Åsbrink, Gustav Borehed and Takuya Fujisawa

Photo by Ingeborg Zackariassen

"SKUMITATE - PROGRESS"  at STHLM DANS 2023

May 6th 11:00 Workshop

May 7th 14:00 Dance installation

This work-in-progress is part of a site-specific research project in cooperation with STHLM DANS and Östasiatiska museet. Presented in connection with the exhibition Juxtaposing Craft, which highlights the traditional craft and contemporary making in Japan and the Nordic countries.

Choreography, Scenography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer: Beda Åsbrink, Gustav Borehed, Jesse Bechard, Takuya Fujisawa

Lighting design: Takuya Fujisawa and Hopman Lilja, Alexander

Music: Emiliano Sacripanti (Aemia)

Supported by

Konstnärsnämnden, Västra Götalandsregionen Göteborgs stad and Kulturrådet

Produce by 

TAKUYA FUJISAWA, Possibilitas, Julianna Vi∂arsdottir,

STHLM DANS and Östasiatiska museet

Photo by Sigitas Dascioras

Choreography, Music, Scenography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer Beda Åsbrink, Takuya Fujisawa

Nordiskt Ljus festival (Kungälv) 2022/07/29

Start festival Rokiškis(Lithuania) 2022/08/31

The title of the work, "SEBONE," means spine in Japanese. It also means the nucleus or skeleton of a structure.

Neither the person nor the work would be possible without the spine. This work is the very process of searching for something that is the nucleus of existence.

This work is research for a collaboration between tap dance and puppeteering scheduled for 2023 - 2024.

“Gnugga” - A visualization of strain and friction.

Flexible painting and dancers on stage. 

The interlocking patterns are a metaphor for the ideal, and as they are moved and distorted, they evoke the gap between ideal and reality. Like our memories, which are a mixture of fact and fiction.

Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa

Dancer: Malin Kvist, Beda Åsbrink, Takuya Fujisawa

Music: Maria Hansson, Takuya Fujisawa

Scenography: Shogo Hirata and Takuya Fujisawa

Film: Donovan von Martens

Lighting design: Diblik Rabia

Poster and logo: Shogo Hirata

Folkteatern(Göteborg) 2022/03/03 - 03/04 Sold out!!

AliasTeatern(Stockholm) 2022/04/01 - 04/03

Supported by Kulturradet, Danscentrum väst, Folkteatern and alias teatern

Produce by Possibilitas and Takuya Fujisawa

An ongoing experimental series since 2021 based on the concept of a multifaceted experience taking place in a single room. The audience is positioned 360 degrees around the perimeter of the room.

"I rummet .2"

2021 11th September Göteborg Fringe Festival

Dancer: Malin Kvist, Beda Åsbrink

Scenography: Shogo Hirata

Music: Donovan von Martens, Takuya Fujisawa

2021 Feb Februaridans

2021 Sep screening Göteborg Fringe Festival

Film direction and edit: Donovan von Martens

Dancer: Malin Kvist, Beda Åsbrink

Script: Beda Åsbrink, Takuya Fujisawa

Scenography: Takuya Fujisawa

Photo by Francesco Scavetta

Music:

'Lights flickering'—as documentation of ‘Pause' by Nishiko and Mei-yi Lee, 2014

Machinefabriek – Hanging

Music by Rutger Zuydervelt, originally recorded for the circus/dance performance ENGEL by Marta Alstadsæter & Kim-Jomi Fischer

"Invitation To The Voyage"

Written by Julia Kent

©Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd

Machinefabriek – Zucht 2

Music by Rutger Zuydervelt, taken from the album Slaapzucht

JESUS BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET

Musik: Gavin Bryars Lyrics: Trad.

© Schott Music Ltd. Nordic & Baltic rightsholder: Gehrmans Musikförlag AB.

Med stöd av Göteborgs Stad och Danscentrum Väst