JOJI INC est une compagnie chorégraphique et scénographique créée en 1998 par Johanne Saunier et Jim Clayburgh. Elle examine comment l'architecture et la technologie entourent le corps humain, et comment un corps peut exister dans cet environnement « culturel ».

JOJI INC a produit une douzaine de pièces qui explorent ces idées à travers le film, la vidéo, le son, la musique, le design et le mouvement en contexte de performance — souvent en dialogue avec des compositeurs vivants.

Première pièce solo en 1998 : Sans la Voix des Maîtres, interprétée par Johanne Saunier d'après le film « Harakiri » de Kobayashi (1963). 1999 Chorée/Salto, concert chorégraphié avec Stéphane Ginsburgh, Renaud de Putter et Garth Knox. 2000 Final Scene, Prix d'Auteur du Conseil général de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet).

Suivent notamment Landscape with 4 Figures (2001), It's like (2002–2004), le cycle Erase-E(x) avec The Wooster Group, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Isabella Soupart, Kurt D'Haeseleer et Georges Aperghis, puis Lolita (2008), Line of Oblivion (2010), Musée en Chantier (2011) et Modern Dance avec Mathurin Bolze (2012).

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.

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, a piece for three female dancers in the continuation of the solo, which won the Prix d'Auteur du Conseil général de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet).

2001 Landscape with 4 Figures — a piece for 4 dancers and a Viole d'Amour player (Garth Knox) improvising on Philippe Boesmans' 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 and Michel de Wouters.

2004 It's like./ l'installation (Atomium Bruxelles); SWOT solo with a rope (Festival Avignon off); Erase-E(x) 1 a solo with Johanne Saunier choreographed by the Wooster Group of New York, created in Avignon 2004 "Sujet à Vif". 2005 Erase-E(x) 1, 2, 3 a multi-part performance with The Wooster Group, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Isabella Soupart, Festival Avignon 05. 2006 Erase-E(x) 4 by Kurt D'Haeseleer, Théâtre de la Ville Paris. 2007 Erase-E(x) 5, 6 by composer Georges Aperghis and Johanne Saunier at the Biennale de Charleroi-Danses.

2008 Lolita, an opera staged by Jim Clayburgh, choreographed by Johanne Saunier, music and libretto by Joshua Fineberg. 2010 Line of Oblivion based on the Carlos Fuentes text, music by Arturo Fuentes. 2011 Musée en Chantier with Cécile Goossens. 2012 Modern Dance, a collaboration with Mathurin Bolze.

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 three 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 Michèle Anne de Mey, Compagnie Pierre Droulers, JOJI INC, Wim Vandekeybus, Ensemble Ictus and Walpurgis, as well as for Ballet de Genève and EN-KNAP (Slovenia).

In opera, his work includes Aventures / Nouvelles Aventures of Ligeti, produced by the Monnaie/Munt in Brussels, for which he conceived and co-directed with Pierre Droulers and designed the décor, lighting and costumes. He designed the lighting for Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo of Cavalieri, also at the Monnaie/Munt.

In 2008 he directed and designed LOLITA, an imagined opera based on the novel by Nabokov, composed by Joshua Fineberg, and Walking on Rocks, a JOJI INC piece exploring the ownership of movement. He was part of the renovation design team for Flagey and Bozar in Brussels (2000–2006). He holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MFA in Theater Design from NYU, and received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in design.

Jim Clayburgh est membre fondateur de The Wooster Group et en a été le scénographe résident de 1976 à 1995. Son travail avec la compagnie a été présenté dans une soixantaine de lieux en Europe, Asie et Amérique du Sud.

Il a conçu décors et lumières pour le théâtre (Salzburg Festival, New York Shakespeare Festival, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Mabou Mines…), la danse (Rosas, Michèle Anne de Mey, Pierre Droulers, JOJI INC, Wim Vandekeybus, Ictus, Ballet de Genève, EN-KNAP) et l'opéra (Monnaie/Munt — Ligeti, Cavalieri).

En 2008, il met en scène et conçoit LOLITA (musique Joshua Fineberg) et Walking on Rocks pour JOJI INC. Il a participé à la rénovation de Flagey et du Palais des Beaux-Arts à Bruxelles. Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in design.