Body By September: alongside the dog and other important things

Ada Fujita

Dance

Body By September: alongside the dog and other important things is an intimate solo dance work stitched from silly songs, knit goods, private rituals, and low-stakes spectacle. Set in a domestic dreamscape, it plays with softness as a survival spell—part self-soothing, part storytelling.

A layered collage of memory, sensation, and absurd detail, the piece offers a gentle refusal of urgency, usefulness and perfection. It’s a kind of rebellion: tender, strange, and softly brave. Here, ambition rests on low, leaving space for quiet sits to investigate the mundane— sometimes with the company of a very opinionated dog.

In a world obsessed with endless productivity, Body By September lingers in the in-between—where becoming is slow, messy, and sometimes deeply cozy. If you’ve ever found yourself dancing alone in your living room, napping to cope, or trying to change without really knowing how—join me in not worrying too much for now.

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Run Time: 50 mins

Ticket Price: $25

PWYC Options $5+

Venue: Icebox Project Space Gallery

Dates: September 7, 2025

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September 7, 2025 5.00pm

1400 N American St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

About the Artist

Ada Fujita (they/them) is a queer, trans, neurodivergent, and biracial Japanese American movement artist based in Philadelphia. Their work weaves fantasy, melodrama, and performance into explorations of self-understanding, grounded in somatic awareness and self-regulation. They are drawn to how the grandeur of fantasy can reveal deep truths, blending aspirations with the core of identity. Currently, Ada works with shelter animals at Philly PAWS, where attentiveness to nonverbal communication and embodied presence informs their artistic practice.
Using stim as a pathway into movement, Ada develops vocabularies that invite pleasure, satisfaction, and self-regulation. Their work is shaped by their nonlinear and multifaceted background, exploring identity within complex social contexts and questioning what is seen and unseen. With training in folk, social, improvisation and modern dance, Ada holds a BFA from the University of the Arts.

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