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NEWS!!!
Joji Inc is on tour with Erase-E(X) parts 1,2,3,4,5,6.

Staged by Jim Clayburgh, choreographed by Johanne Saunier, LOLITA is a contempory opera with the music of joshua Fineberg, based on the book of Nabokov,with a narrator, 2 bodies 10 musiciens and the images of Kurt d'Haeseleer
is to premiere the 17th of April in Marseille at the festival des Musiques (GMEM).
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JoJi Inc. is a company created by Johanne Saunier and Jim Clayburgh in 1998
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.

Johanne Saunier - choreographer

Johanne Saunier was from 1986 to 1996 a member of the ROSAS Company of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Bartok, Mikrokosmos, Ottone Ottone, Stella, Achterland, Toccata.) Then she worked with the companies of Michele Anne de Mey, Fatou Traoré, Claudio Bernardo and performed in 21 Etudes à Danser a film directed by Thierry de Mey. 1998 for Joji Inc her association with the scenographer Jim Clayburgh, she has created Sans la voix des Maîtres (1998), Chorée/Salto (1999),Final Scene (2000) won the choreographic prize Bagnolet, Landscape with 4 Figures (2001) with the viola player Garth Knox, It's like.(2002), It's like...(film +Installation) 2003, You are here/SWOT a solo with a rope, ERASE-E(X)1 (festival Avignon 2004), ERASE-E(X)1,2,3 (festival Avignon 2005) ERASE-E(X) 4,5,6 created in Theatre de la Ville in Paris and Charleroi Danses Brussels 2007.

Since 2000 she sang in the operas of P. Boesmans Winter Tale staged by Luc Bondy, W. Hus Bloetwollefduivel staged by Guy Cassiers, Paysage sous surveillance and Avis de Tempete from Ictus/G. Aperghis.


Jim Clayburgh - scenographer

Jim Clayburgh is a founding member of The Wooster Group and has been their resident designer from 1976 to 1995. His designs are " The Hairy Ape ", " Finished Story ", " Emperor Jones " and " Brace Up " . Before 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 ". Before that was " 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 also recently designed lighting for dance pieces by Rosas, Compagnie Michele Anne de Mey, Compagnie Pierre Droulers, Joji Inc. and Wim Vandekeybus, Cie Isabella soupart, all Belgian companies. Mr Clayburgh 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 including: Theatres, Spaces, Environments: Eighteen Projects by McNamara, Rojo and Schechner;and Theatrical Evolution: 1776-1976 by Kenneth Spritz. He has had articles on him appear in "Theater Crafts Magazine" and in "Theater Design and Technology". He has lectured and taught at various universities here and abroad including N.Y.U., University California at Santa Cruz , Univ. of Michigan. Recently 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.

 

 
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