Joji Inc is a choreographic and scenographic focused company created by Johanne Saunier and Jim Clayburgh in 1998, that examines how architecture, and technology surround the human body and how a body can exist in that "cultural" environment. In the past 11 years, Joji Inc produced 12 pieces which examined how these ideas can be reflected in film, video, sound, music, design and movement when placed in a performance context. Many of these pieces have and will continue to segue with living composers
Joji Inc. created its first solo piece in 1998, Sans la Voix des Maîtres , interpreted by Johanne Saunier based on scenes from the film "Harakiri" by Kobayashi, 1963.
1999 Chorée/Salto , a choreographed musical concert created with the pianist Stéphane Ginsburgh, the composer Renaud de Putter and the viola player Garth Knox (Arditti Quartet),
2000 Final Scene , is a piece for three female dancers in the continuation of the solo, which won the Prix d'Auteur du Conseil général de Seine-St-Denis (Bagnolet)
2001 Landscape with 4 Figures . A piece for 4 dancers and a Viole d'Amour player (Garth Knox) improvising on the Philippe Boesman' string quartet "Summer Dreams"
2002 It's like. , for 3 female dancers and an actress via Internet connection, within a square installation of veils. 2003 Creation of the film It's like. directed by Joji Inc et Michel de Wouters(Festival VidéoDanse Beaubourg Paris, Festival Nueva Tokyo, Nancy, Atomium Brussels, Avignon festival.)
2004 It's like./ l'installation (Atomium Bruxelles) S W O T solo with a rope (Festival Avignon off).
Erase-E(x) 1 a solo with Johanne Saunier and choreographed by the Wooster Group of New York created in Avignon 04 "Sujet à Vif"
2005 Erase-E(x) 1, 2, 3 a multi parts performance with the collaboration of The Wooster Group, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Isabella Soupart, Festival Avignon 05
2006 Erase-E(x) part 4 by Kurt D'Haeseleer Théâtre de la Ville Paris. April 2007 Erase-E(x) parts 5 & 6 by composer Georges Aperghis, Johanne Saunier in the Biennale de Charleroi-Danses. Lolita an opera stage by Jim Clayburgh, choreographed by Johanne Saunier, music and libretto by Joshua Fineberg.

For over ten years (1986-1998), Johanne Saunier performed in the ROSAS Company, directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. She performed in Bartók/Aantekeningen, Mikrokosmos, Ottone Ottone, Stella, Achterland, Erts and several films based on her choreography with ROSAS. She teaches at the Parts school. In 1998, she created Joji Inc. with Jim Clayburgh; this scenographic/choreographic partnership led to many performances. In 2000, she won the Bagnolet choreography award for her trio Final Scene. Since July 2004, the project Erase-E(X) has become the central project of Joji Inc. This project is a Russian-doll like collaboration with various guest artists from diverse horizons; from the Wooster Group from New York to Anne Teresa de Keesmaeker and Georges Aperghis for a vocal composition or a video creation by Kurt d'Haeseleer. In 2007 she created IM-agined a collaboration with the textile designer Anke Loh, the video artist Kurt d'Haeseleer. This performance explores the Lumalive technology created by Philips, using it in the costumes. In 2008, she created the choreography for the first opera directed by Jim Clayburgh "LOLITA" based on the book by Nabokov, music by Joshua Fineberg and Machinations from Georges Aperghis directed by the VocalLab in Rooterdam Operadagen.
Since 2000, she has also performed in several operas (Le Conte d’hiver by Philippe Boesmans and Luc Bondy, Bloet Wollef Duivel by Walter Hus and Guy Cassiers, Paysage sous surveillance and Avis de Tempête by Georges Aperghis with the ensemble Ictus, at the operas of Lille, Nancy, Paris, and Strasbourg) and Machinations composed and staged by Georges Aperghis. Her future projects are Musée en chantier ( for voice and movements), Line of Oblivion with the composer Arturo Fuentes based on the text of Carlos Fuentes, and Lear Summaries with composer François Sarhan and the Quator Diotima.

Jim Clayburgh - scenographer

Jim Clayburgh is a founding member of The Wooster Group and was their resident designer from 1976 to 1995. His designs include " The Hairy Ape ", " Finished Story ", " Emperor Jones”  and " Brace Up " . Prior to that there were the 3 sections of " The Road to Immortality" which include " Route 1 & 9 (The last act)", "L.S.D .
(Just the high points ...)" and " Frank Dell's , The Temptation of St. Antony , " Pt. Judith " and the trilogy " Three Places in Rhode Island ". His work with them has included designs for about 80 venues in Europe, Asia and South America.
In addition to his work with The Wooster Group, Mr. Clayburgh has designed theater pieces at the Salzburg Festival, Pepsico Festival, The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Creation Company, Mabou Mines and Second Stage including work directed by Richard Foreman, David Rabe, Des McAnuff, Wilford Leach, Matthew Maguire, Hal Hartley, Isabella Soupart, and Jeffrey M. Jones. He has designed lighting for dance pieces by Rosas, Compagnie Michele Anne de Mey, Compagnie Pierre Droulers, Joji Inc, Wim Vandekeybus, the musical Ensemble, Ictus and Walpurgis all Belgian companies, and as well for the Ballet de Geneve (Suisse), EN-KNAP (Slovenia).
In opera, Mr. Clayburgh 's work includes “Aventures Nouvelles Adventures"of Ligeti, produced by the Monnaie/Munt on Brussels for which he conceived and co-directed with Pierre Droulers and designed the decor, lighting and costumes. Mr. Clayburgh designed the lighting for “Reppresentatione di Anima et di Corpo” of Cavalieri also at the Monnaie/Munt.
He has designed lighting and/or decors for visual art installations : “Ma” “Ma-I” and “Inouï” for Compagnie Pierre Droulers, “and Motention” for En Knap (Slovenia/London),

Mr Clayburgh directed lately “IM-agined”, a short piece created in collaboration with costume designer Anke Loh, video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer and Joji Inc. This performance explored the Lumalive video technology created by Philips and was integrated into the costumes. In  2008, he directed and designed “LOLITA”, an imagined opera based on the novel by Nabokov, composed by Joshua Fineberg. In the same year he directed and designed “Walking on Rocks”, a Joji Inc piece which explores the ownership of movement.
He was part of the renovation design team for 2 concert hall complexes in Brussels: La Maison de la Radio Flagey and for Le Palais des Beaux Arts. (2000-2006)

Mr. Clayburgh has a Bachelor of Arts(BA) from Claremont McKenna College with his major studies in design at Pomona College and a Masters of Fine Arts(MFA)in Theater Design from New York University School of the Arts.
He received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in the field of design. He has had photographs of his work appear in several theatrical design anthologies and has had articles on him appear in "Theater Crafts Magazine" and in "Theater Design and Technology".