Fujima Shunojo's DCASE project: “Trans-figure-ation” . An experimental Japanese Classical Dance piece drawing from the love-suicide play "Umekawa Chubei" by Chikamatsu Monzaemon.

A collaboration with  Ozashiki Shaisen Player Toyoaki Sanjuro and Fujima Yoshinojo. A  Streamed Performance with Panel Discussion Nov.14, 2021 7pm Streamed from High Concept Labs:

Use Link- stream.airmw.org

Panel Members:

Ayako Kato – Choreographer/Dancer; Artistic Director, Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape

Helen M. Nagata, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University (NIU), specialization in Edo-period paintings/prints and explores the nexuses where visual arts, dance, music, literature, poetry, and theater intersect.

Pranita Nayar – Executive Artistic Director, Mandala South Asian Performing Arts, Inc.

Mitsu Salmon – IInterdisciplinary and performance artist with a residency currently at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and she is a lecturer at Weber State University in art theory.

Moderated by Yoshinojo Fujima

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Asian Improv aRts Midwest is supported in part by The Illinois Arts Council Agency, 
The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, JCCC Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and The Joyce Foundation.

Shubukai is a program of Asian Improv aRts Midwest and is supported in part by The Illinois Arts Council Agency,  The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and The Joyce Foundation.