Ballet Shoji Kojima Flamenco

On November 20th and 21st, 2024, Shoji Kojima premieres Sōbō (the immense blue) at Ginza Blossam, Tokyo. (Oct. 11th, 2024)
On March 1st, 2023, Shoji Kojima will participate in the 27th Festival de Jerez and perform the world premiere of Toda una vida. (Jan. 4th, 2023)
Diario de Jerez, DeFlamenco.com, La voz del sur y Ático Izquierda have published reviews on Lorca x Bach. Here is the list of the reviews, or you can check the page "review" on the upper menu. (Mar. 13th, 2020)
Festival de Jerez Televisión has released in vimeo a video footage summerized in 5 minutes and 9 seconds of Lorca x Bach, premiered yesterday at the Teatro Villamarta de Jerez de la Frontera. (Feb. 26th, 2020)
On February 25th Shoji Kojima performes the world premiere of Lorca x Bach, a tribute to Federico García Lorca y Johann Sebastian Bach, at the Teatro de Villamarta of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and participates in 24th Festival de Jerez. (Dec. 25th, 2019)
On November 6th, 2018, Kojima received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japanese government. (Nov. 6th, 2018)
On November 12th and 13th, 2018, Kojima presents Simulacrum again in the GIFT Festival (Georgian Internacional Festival of Arts) in Tbilisi. (Oct. 24th, 2018)
From October 11th to 13th, 2018, Kojima performs again Eco(premiered in Barcelona in 2012) at Teatro Valle-Inclán of Madrid. The versatile artist Frederic Amat will execute live painting during the performance, accompanied by the singer El Londro and the guitarrist Chicuelo. (Oct. 1st, 2018)
On August 24th, 2018, Kojima appears in the 51st Fiesta de la Bulería "Jerez con Japón" which will take place in Alameda Vieja de Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. (Aug. 5th, 2018)
From May 23rd to 27th, 2018, Kojma appears and plays the role of Destiny in the flamenco musical Macbeth: the man who killed his sleep, written, directed and choreographed by Haruka Ueada, at THEATRE 1010 of Tokyo. For more information please check this flyer. (May 11th, 2018)
Here you can watch a summerized version in five minutes of Vamo' Allá, Flamenconautas' spectacle in which Kojima acted as guest artist. (Mar. 6th, 2018)
On February 27th, 2018, Kojima participated in 22nd Festival of Jerez with Vamo' Allá as special collaborator and guest artist of Flamenconautas which gathered dancers from twelve countries. (Mar. 1st, 2018)
On May 3rd and 4th, 2018, we will perform Japan premiere of Simulacrum at Shizuoka Arts Theatre in the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka under Mt. Fuji. (Jan. 23rd, 2018)
On November 7th and 8th, 2017, Shoji Kojima will participate in the 3rd Biennale of Flamenco Arts at the National Theater of Chaillot, Paris, France, with Simulacrum. (Jun. 23rd, 2017)
On April 18th, 19th and 20th, 2017, we will perform again Simulacrum in Houston, America. (Apr. 11th, 2017)
On Octuber 13th, 14th and 15th, 2016, Shoji Kojima performs with Daniel Proietto in Simulacrum at Oslo Opera House, Norway. (Aug. 29th, 2016)
On March 4th, 2016, Shoji Kojima received a commendation from the city of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Mayor Mamen Sánchez, City Controller Francisco Camas and the director of Teatro Villamarta Isamay Benavente hosted the award ceremony. Kojima also was named to be ambassador of Jerez de la Frontera in Japan. (Mar. 5th, 2016)
Festival de Jerez Televisión has released a video footage of A este chino no le canto we represented night before last at Teatro Villamarta de Jerez de la Frontera. It is a digest version about 4 minutes and 45 seconds. (Mar. 4th, 2016)
On March 2nd, 2016, Shoji Kojima will participate in the 20th Festival de Jerez with his new performance A este chino no le canto at Teatro Villamarta. (Jan. 8th, 2016)
On April 4th, 2015, Instituto Cervantes of Tokyo gave Shoji Kojima an award for his contribution to the diffusion of flamenco in Japan. You can see the certificate of commendation on the news page. (Apr. 6th, 2015)
On May 6th, 2015, Shoji Kojima will offer his homage to Kūkai at Kondō of Danjō Garan of Kongōbuji, the headquarters of Kōyasan shingon Buddhism, to commemorate the 1200th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery in Kōyasan. (Mar. 26th, 2015)
On July 31st, 2014, the Embassy of Japan in Spain recognized the Company of Flamenco Kojima Latorre's contributions to the quatercentenary of Spain-Japan exchanges event. You can see the certificate of commendation on the news page. (Nov. 29th, 2014)
Kojima appeares as special artist in Puntos y Línea (Points and line), a production of AMI Flamenco Estudio and Tornillo. (Oct. 11th, 2014)
On 9th November Kojima presents a new performance, Anhelo de la vida (Longing for life), with his disciples in Mugi, Tokushima Prefecture. (Oct. 11th, 2014)
Kojima will be a guest dancer in desnudo Vol.13 Shoji Koljima: a Gift of Soul, a production of ARTE Y SOLERA, from June 4th to 6th. It is a reproduction of the legendary performance premiered in 2009. For more information please check this flyer. (Jun. 3rd, 2014)
On 1st December three Spanish newspaper (ABC, Diario de Córdoba and El Día de Córdoba) published reviews on FATUM!: LA FUERZA DEL DESTINO. Here is the list of the reviews, or you can check the page "review" on the upper menu. (Dec. 22nd, 2013)
On November 29 at 20:30 Shoji Kojima produces and performes the world premiere of FATUM!: LA FUERZA DEL DESTINO at Gran Teatro de Córdoba, Spain, to celebrate the quatercentenary of Spain-Japan exchanges and the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth. For more information please check this page. (Oct. 26th, 2013)
On August 19th at 22:00 NHK General TV will broadcast "Tsubasa Imai and Samurai Hasekura: a challenge to the great journey". It is a documentary which covers the opening ceremony to celebrate Japan Year in Spain held at Teatro Real of Madrid on June 11th. The ceremony, in which Shoji Kojima appeared as guest artist, was graced with the presence of His Imperial Highness Prince Hironomiya and Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess of Asturias. We invite you to enjoy the program. (Jul. 19th, 2013)
Shoji Kojima appears for the first time on stage of World Theatre Festival Shizuoka under Mt. Fuji on June 16th with his new performance Between Life and Death: a tribute to the soul of Federico. (May 3rd, 2013)
Shoji Kojima will participate as guest artist with Miguel Poveda in the Opening Ceremony to Celebrate Japan Year in Spain 2013, which will be held on June 11th at Teatro Real of Madrid under the artistic direction of the pianist Mine Kawakami. (May 3rd, 2013)
Shoji Kojima has been selected to receive the XXXII Nimura Dance Award. The award ceremony will be held at the Audiovisual Hall of the Central Library of Suwa City (Nagano Prefecture). For more information please check the official site of Suwa City. (Jun. 22th, 2012)
La Celestina has received an invitation to XVII Bienal de Sevilla to be held from September 3rd to 30th. Our performance will be on Friday, September 28th, at 20:30, at Teatro Maestranza. For more information please check the official page of the Bienal. (May 25th, 2012)
Shoji Kojima gave an interview to the Catalonian newspaper La Vanguardia on May 23th. (May 25th, 2012)
Shoji Kojima will be a guest dancer in Festival Ciutat Flamenco (formerly known as Festival Ciutat Vella) which is to be held at Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, from May 23th to 26th .On May 23th he will dance in Una Leyenda del Tiempo (directed by Chicuelo) and on 26th at 20:00 he will participate with Chicuelo in Flamenco Empŕico at Sala Pina Bausch. We will let you know as soon as we know the details. Here is the official website of the festival. (Mar. 28th, 2012)
On March 11th Shoji Kojima performes as guest dancer in ¡Viva Flamenco! at Tokushima Civic Cultural Center. It is one of the proyects of Tokushima Public Interest Corporation for Cultural Promotion to show support for northeastern Japan. For more information see this PDF file. (Feb. 29, 2012)
On March 24 and 25 we give a performance called Viento de Jerez (Wind from Jerez) at our own studio. For more information see "news" on the upper menu. (Feb. 23th, 2012)
On January 24th we donated the full amount of tickets sales for Requiem with all the contributions collected at Le Theatre Ginza and our studio to the Japanese Red Cross. (Feb. 23th, 2012)
On Wednesday, 30th of November we give a one-night stand Requiem at Le Theatre Ginza of Tokio, a charity gala to support for reconstruction of the earthquake-affected areas in eaastern Japan. (Nov. 14th, 2011)
We will give four performances of La Celestina from Friday, December 2nd to 4th at Le Theatre Ginza of Tokio as triumphal return to Tokio after XV Festival de Jerez. (Nov. 14th, 2011)
You can listen to live news in 18 languates on NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN. (Mar. 13th, 2011)
Shoji Kojima is safe and all right in spite of the worst earthquake that hit our country. He has spent a night with some of our members (Machi Murata, Ayumi Yanagiya, Chiharu Okano, Junko Sujino...). When the first earthquake occured we was invited to a luncheon party held at the Spanish Embassy in Tokio with Yoko Komatsubara and Masami Okada. We have received many massages of sympathy for Kojima. Thank you. We would like to express our heartfelt sympathy for all the residentes of the affected communities. (Mar. 12th, 2011
canalflamencotv has just released the complete version of La Celestina on its video gallery. See the top page and you will see Videoteca on the right. Choose "COMPAÑÍA SHOJI KOJIMA" to watch the video.
The Festival de Jerez Television has published a video of La Celestina on vimeo. It's a 4-minute, 41-second clip. (Mar. 1st, 2011)
canalflamencotv, the Spanish all-flamenco compucasting channel will broadcast a special program of La Celestina on March 1st at 8:00 p.m, Spain time (GMT+1). There will be another program on the 2nd at 2:00 p.m. and the 3th at 1:00 a.m. too (Spain time).
On February 26th at 13:00 we held a press conference on La Celestina at the Bodega de San Ginés, a winery near the Teatro Villamarta of the City of Jerez de la Frontera. Andalucía Información has put a picture on its website in which we can see, from left to rifht, Javier Latorre (choreographer & director), Kojima, Jesús Méndez (Jerez-born singer) and Chicuelo (musical director & guitarrist). The agent EFE has released a video of Kojima at a rehearsal studio.
We are delighted to announce that we will be invited to the 15th Festival de Jerez with La Celestina, our latest work premiered in Tokio in 2009. We will be acting on Sunday, February 27th 2011 at Teatro Villamarta of the City of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. For more information see next performance.
NHK TV program "Holiday Interview" will feature an interview with Shoji Kojima on November 23th, 2010, from 6:00am to 6:53am. For details, please visit the official website of the program.
Motoharu Okubo has published a biography of Kojima: Pilgrim in quest of truth: Shoji Kojima and his world of flamenco (KADOKAWA SSCommunications, 2009). The author is one of Kojima's oldest friends.
On December 6th, 2009, we will hold a performance Pasión Flamenca en Mugi in the Ocean Cultural Center of Mugi, Tokushima Prefecture. Kojima will feature «the pilgrimage to Shikoku». For more information read the article of Tokushima Shimbun (in Japanese).
We have successfully finished all the four performances of La Celestina. Thank you for coming to Le Theatre Ginza, Tokio. (November 11th, 2009)
The government of Japan has announced today it would name Shoji Kojima a Person of Cultural Merit. The ceremony will be beld on November 4th in Tokio. (Oct. 27th, 2009)
Our next production is La Celestina. We will give four performances from Friday, November 27th to Sunday 29th at Le Theatre Ginza, Tokio.(October 13th, 2009)
Kojima will be a guest dancer in desnudo Vol. 3 Shoji Kojima: a Gift of Soul, a production of ARTE Y SOLERA. The performances will be on August 26th, 27th, September 2nd and 3rd, casted by Hiroki Satoh, Yoshio Yano, Sanshiro Sueki, with Mitsuharu Seki y Tomoya Matsuda of our company. For more information see the website of ARTE Y SOLERA.
Kojima dedicates a performance to Kūkai (founder of shingon Buddhism) under the title of Holy Life: hommage to Kūkai, on Sunday 14th, June, at Kondō of Danjō Garan of Kongōbuji, the headquarters of Kōyasan shingon Buddhism (Wakayama Prefecture). For more information see this page.
On March 10th, 2009, Shoji Kojima received la Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Order of Civil Merit in the Grade of Commander), handed by His Excellency the Spanish Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Miguel Ángel Carriedo, in the name of His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo.
The Spanish Embassy to Japan has announced today, February 24th, 2009, that His Majesty King Juan Carlos I will award la Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Order of Civil Merit in the Grade of Commander) to Shoji Kojima. The ceremony will take place on March 10th at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo.
Tomoya MATSUDA won the Incentive Award (category: solo dance) of the 17th Flamenco Renaissance 21 held in Tokio by Japan Flamenco Association from August 22th to the 24th, 2008.
The performance of the last month of May, Allende Las Fronteras (Cross-borders), has been nominated for Asahi Performing Arts Prizes (category: dance) according to today's edition of Asahi Shimbun, June 24th, 2008
In April 2008 Shoji Kojima has been awarded the 39th Dance Critics Society of Japan Prize for his «love and peace trilogy»: El Cant dels Ocells: A Pau Casals (2005), FEDERICO (2006) y Poetas en Guerra (2007).
We have redesigned our website. (June 5th, 2008)