• 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. For more information see "news" on the upper menu. (Nov. 14th, 2011)
• We will give four performances of La Celestina from Friday, December 2nd to 4th at Le Theatre Ginza of Tokio as a triumphal return to Tokio after XV Festival de Jerez. For more information see "news" on the upper menu. (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 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 es La Celestina. We will give four performances from Friday, November 27th to Sunday 29th at Le Theatre Ginza, Tokio. For more information see next peformance. (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)