Ryuichi Fujimura
dancer / performance maker
Performance History
A list of selected projects in which I was involved as a performer
August 2024
'Today I feel a soft breeze' is a 24 hour dance performance on a pontoon over a lake at HOTA on the Gold Coast in collaboration with Lizzie Thomson and Emma Saunders.
July 2024
Club Origami is a live dance performance for children under 5 years old created by Takeshi Matsumoto, Makiko Aoyama and Robert Howat. I was fortunate to be among the new Australian cast for its Sydney season in 2024.
October 2022
Performature : Performateur (P:P) was conceived by WeiZen in 2019 as a research framework to reimagine the performative vocabulary in relation to personal embodied histories.
May 2021
Fishy Tales - a site-specific outdoor performance directed by Diane Busuttil & Vashti Hughes at EDGE Greenway with Renata Commiso.
June - August 2022
A performance installation by Mel O'Callaghan as part of her new exhibition All is Life.
September 2022
At Sydney Contemporary 2022, Leading contemporary artist Justene Williams presented a new headline performance exclusively for the Fair titled She predicted the weather (2022).
September 2020
Physical theatre company Clockfire present their new Australian production we, the lost company, an adaptation, a moving poetic tribute to mother nature’s most mysterious element. Online presentation for Global Fringe produced by Clockfire Theatre Co.
October 2020
AEON†: EP I is a performance work created by Justin Shoulder as part of Performance Space's Liveworks 2020 at Carraigeworks in Sydney.
January 2020
THE NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED GOBLINS
A WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION FOR SYDNEY FESTIVAL
CO-PRESENTED BY ART GALLERY OF NSW AND
CLOCKFIRE THEATRE COMPANY. (promo video)
November 2019
In November 2019, Sydney audiences were once again afforded the chance to experience the work of artist Tino Sehgal, who is renowned for creating art that leaves no material trace. This is so contemporary, which debuted in Australia at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2014 as Kaldor Public Art Project 29, cannot be photographed, and must be experienced through direct, interpersonal encounters.
September 2019
In September 2019 IN TRANSITCo. (formerly Flightpath Theatre) in collaboration with Merrigong Theatre Company and the Illawarra Multicultural Services transformed the Wollongong Town Hall into an international airport transit lounge for an immersive theatrical experience exploring departures, arrivals and belonging.
September 2019
For Making Art Public, Alicia Frankovich presented The Work, a large-scale choreography in the Entrance Court at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Breathwork performance with dielectric glass and harpist created by Mel O'Callaghan at Artspace, Sydney
August 2019
Do Something Else is a devised work of extraordinary scope and power that explores the boundaries of theatrical storytelling directed by Michael Pigott at 505 (Sydney).
October 2016
March 2016
Disaffected is an immersive work of intricate stories that is highly charged, unavoidably dirty and utterly affecting. Directed by Kym Vercoe at Blacktown Arts Centre.
November 2015
Like an experiment in pattern recognition, Temporary Title, 2015 explores forms not quite distinguishable as human, yet not completely anything else. Choreographed by Xavier le Roy and Scarlet Yu at Carriageworks (Sydney)
2013/2014
Game of Seven is a durational improvisation based on techniques developed by Force Majeure with performers from the 2012 and 2013 Cultivate Labs. This performance installation allows the viewer to engage with an improvised movement vocabulary in an engaging, playful environment.
2011/2012
In 2011 Force Majeure partnered with Performance Space to bring together a diverse and talented group of emerging directors, choreographers and dancers. Titled Cultivate, these workshops gave them the opportunity to explore Force Majeure’s devising process. In 2012, the same group will reunite for Culminate where participants will further develop and, ultimately, present a showcase of dance-theatre work. Presented by Carriageworks, Performance Space and Force Majeure.
August 2008
The Bland Project is a performance work about the mystery of blandness, which is not any one thing or quality. Themes include the transgression of personal space and boundaries, and the difficulty of separating or dividing the self, as being, from the performance “character”. Directed by Alan Schacher at Carriageworks (Sydney)
May 2003
NNO COLD FEET is a site specific performance work directed by Tess de Quincey taking place at Cathedral Square, Cook & Philip Park (Sydney). It is an experience, incorporating the sights, sounds, smells and substances of our city into sixty minutes of weird and beautiful art.