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How I Practice My Religion
HERE NOW Trilogy Part 2

One day in June 1991 in Melbourne, I knocked on the door of a studio for a lunchtime dance class. I had no idea how that moment would subsequently change the path of my life. How I Practice My Religion unravels my dance journey unpacking what has been archived in my body through my dance practice over the last 30 years. This work is dedicated to my first three dance teachers in Melbourne: Caroline English, Margaret Lasica and Anastasi Siotas.

 

Duration: 25 minutes

Created and performed by  Ryuichi Fujimura

Composer:  Hamed Sadeghi

Dramaturg:  Carlos Gomes

Video:  Laura Turner

Design consultant:  Tobhiyah Stone Feller

Outside Eye:  Cloé Fournier

Original lighting design:  Frankie Clarke

Remount lighting design  Jenny Hector

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Performance History

 

  • November 2025 @Vitalstatistix, Adelaide, Australia for OzAsia festival

  • October 2024 @Guild Theatre, Melbourne, Australia for Guild Fringe: Dance Edit

  • April 2023 "HERE NOW!" @Dancehouse, Melbourne, Australia

  • August 2022 @the Old Fitz, Sydney, Australia

  • June 2019 @Parramatta Riverside Theatre, Sydney, Australia for FORM Dance projects’ Dance Bite

  • November 2018 for Taiwan Dance Platform @Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • April 2018 @The Flying Nun, Sydney, Australia for Triple Bill

  • November 2017 for Lonely in the Rain? @Taidekesus Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland (world premiere)




How I Practice My Religion has been developed through the support of Ausdance NSW and FORM Dance Project.

How I Practice My Religion has been supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body (2022 Sydney season and 2018 Taiwan season)

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How I Practice My Religion has been supported by the NSW Government through its Create NSW (2023 Melbourne season, 2022 Sydney season and 2017 Finland season). 

Media Quotes

 

  • “He is a convincing performer whose intensity of thought is expressed in relatively simple yet dynamic actions. His cultural inheritance emerges in his approach and manner rather than in movement style” - Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald

 

 

  • “Fujimura is charismatic and dances with love and feeling. His magnetic performance shares with us the mixture of sacredness and whimsy that is his dance practice. It’s a purely joyful experience to watch as he reacts to his impulses and dances in a free form and liberated style.” - Brianna McCarthy, The Buzz from Sydney​​​

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  • "Fujimura’s work speaks specifically to, and of, the independent contemporary dance community. As each movement characteristic was recited by Fujimura I felt my nerve endings spark to life." by Vicki Van Hout​  Form Dance Projects Blog

 

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