Project AMANEKU
Educational Outreach & Knowledge Inheritance
Educational Outreach & Knowledge Inheritance
Outreach Project AMANEKU is a circular educational initiative that opens up CRAFT’s established creative methodologies—such as Mitate (the art of seeing one thing as another), Translation, and the dialogue between body and material—to educational institutions and emerging artists, weaving new perspectives together.
Concept: Universality & Transformation
The project title, AMANEKU, is an archaic Japanese term meaning "universal," "widespread," or "commonplace."
How can we discover artistic value in everyday objects? How can everyday bodies transform into unique forms of expression?
The core of this project is to share this "shift in perspective" with the next generation.
The Three Pillars of the Project
Methodology Sharing Beyond merely teaching techniques, we share CRAFT’s unique process of Translation with students. Participants engage in a practical exploration of how individuals from disparate backgrounds can construct a single, shared "common language."
Collaborative Creation Rather than simply reproducing an existing repertoire, we reconstruct a new work using the "individual physicality" of the participants and the "local environment" as raw materials.
Feedback Cycle The discoveries and new questions born within the educational setting are fed back into the core research of the CRAFT. This ensures that education is not a one-way street of "instruction," but a space for "unknown discovery" for the professional artists as well.
Proven Impact
Balettakademien Göteborg (2025): Commissioned to create a graduation performance for 10 students with an original score. The process, in which students under the theme of "Transforming Perspectives" explored the"boundary and rerationshio between material and body," was highly acclaimed by educators as an "innovative lens for material-based research."
AMANEKU with Balettakademien Göteborg(2025)
2025.08.16 excerpts performed at Nationellt sommarläger Dans för Parkinson 2025 Göteborg
2025.05.23-25 at Balettakademien Göteborg
This work draws from the traditional Japanese theatrical concept of "MITATE," merging the techniques of puppetry with the dancer’s physicality.
Since 2022, this project has evolved through continuous research, expanding with the inclusion of new artists in each phase. Rather than a singular, static work, it functions as a living encounter between artists of diverse genres—each representing a distinct element of our society. With every change in performers, an entirely new set of relationships emerges; it is this convergence of different styles that recreates the essence of our everyday lives.
How do we weave ourselves together? We collaborate to build a common language while deeply observing the characteristics of our co-creators. The resulting work is not just a performance, but the experience itself.
For this journey, I have invited Balettakademien D3. Under the theme of "Transforming Perspectives," we will create a new work with ten dancers.
The title: "AMANEKU." - In classical Japanese, it signifies "universal" or "widespread," while also reflecting the "commonplace."
The discoveries gained through this collaboration have further evolved, directly informing and flowing into the project: COME WANDER WITH ME.
Choreography: Takuya Fujisawa
Assistant choreographer: Beda Åsbrink
Music: Emiliano Sacripanti (AEMIA)
Costume design: Shogo Hirata and Takuya Fujisawa
Set design: Takuya Fujisawa
Lighting design: Takuya Fujisawa & Karl Wassholm
Photo: Harald Nilsson
Dancers (Balettakademien Göteborg D3)
Evelina Ahlrot
Ida Andersson
Stina Axelsson
Samuel Haglund
Anna Hallqvist
Liv Holst
Ella Nordqvist
Gloria Nordsvan
Linnéa Petersson
Angelica Sundberg