
A witty and moving depiction of a life in dance and the relentless desire to just keep dancing.
Performed together for the first time, Ryuichi Fujimura’s trilogy of solo dance works, How Did I Get Here?, How I Practice My Religion, and Fall! Falter!! Dance!!!, charts the artist’s 25-year journey as a contemporary dancer. Together they capture his journey reckoning with his body’s shifting capabilities and the passing of time.
How rare is this? Dance that makes you laugh out loud.
- Accessibility
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- Ages 16 and up
- This production contains themes of death, strobe lighting and haze effects.
- Runtime
- 1 hour and 30 minutes
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Artist Bio
Ryuichi Fujimura
Creator and Performer
Ryuichi Fujimura is an independent dance artist of Japanese origin based in Sydney, Australia. Since the mid-1990s, he has studied contemporary dance, improvisation and choreography both in Australia and overseas. Over the past two decades, he has collaborated with a wide range of emerging and established artists across dance, theatre, opera, site-specific performance and film. He has performed in works by a range of artists and companies including Xavier Le Roy, De Quincey Co., Force Majeure, La Fura dels Baus, Clockfire Theatre Co., Alan Schacher, Vicki Van Hout, and Justin Shoulder among others. Ryuichi began his choreographic practice in 2014 and has since created a number of live performance works including his HERE NOW Trilogy. In recent years, his practice has expanded to include interdisciplinary collaborations with artists from diverse fields, such as Mel O’Callaghan, Alicia Frankovich and Justene Williams.
In 2024, he developed Pink Regenesis of the Curse in collaboration with WeiZen Ho for EDGE Inner West at White Bay Power Station for the Biennale of Sydney 2024 in April, and performed in Today I feel a soft breeze, a 24-hour dance marathon for Bleach* Festival on the Gold Coast in August. Most recently in June and July 2025, Ryuichi performed in Club Origami, a dance production for young children by Sydney Dance Company touring Brisbane, Sydney and Regional NSW.

Key Creatives
- Ryuichi Fujimura Creator and Performer
- Hamed Sadeghi Composer and Musician
- Laura Turner Video Artist
- Tobhiyah Stone Feller Design Consultant
- Carlos Gomes Dramaturg
- Cloé Fournier Rehearsal Director
- Kate Champion Mentor
Performances
Performance Location: Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide

Location
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide SA 5015
How to get here
Visit the Vitalstatistix website for information about getting to the venue.
More information
Vitalstatistix is a venue external to the Festival Centre. Please visit their website for more information and to plan your visit.
Waterside Workers Hall has limited wheelchair access. The entrance to Adhocracy is to the left of the hall, and is a flat, mostly even surface. The external door is 1.28m wide, and the internal doors are 0.9m wide (but can open to 1.8m wide).
Inside the hall: the Supper Room and the Stage are only accessible by stairs; the Mezzanine and Foyer have ramp access. The ramp is 1.28m wide, however it is quite steep and is not suitable for all wheelchair users.
Outside the hall: the Shop Front has a 0.89m wide door, and a 2-inch-high step in front of the door.
For access information, please visit the Vitalstatistix website.
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