“Pijuan is a talented, even outrageous dance theatre artist” - Toronto Life

Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Toronto. She has performed theatre, dance, comedy, song and puppetry in Canada, Czech Republic, Austria, Mexico, and Ireland for the past 12 years. She is currently focused on combining storytelling, dance, sound and visual art to create dynamic performance pieces.

As a graduate of the School of Physical Theatre, Lisa has a unique style of combining storytelling, movement and music in both choreographed and improvised pieces. Her one woman shows Stories My Body Told Me and She Said Saffron were performed at fFida, Harbourfront Ritmo Y Colour Festival, Montreal Fringe Festival, Toronto Storytelling Festival, RESIDANCE, and RED:A Night of Live Performance. Both shows tell stories of her family and their relationship with food, history and culture. Dance Critic Paula Citron of Classical 96.3 Radio writes “Light on her feet and expressive of voice, Pijuan is absolutely captivating.”

She is also the curator of the highly successful event, RED:A Night of Live Performance held bi-monthly at the beautiful Lula Lounge. This evening presents actors, dancers, puppeteers, stilt walkers, pregnant belly dancers, clowns, filmmakers, spoken word artists and many more performing artists. Over 300 of Toronto’s top artists have performed at RED. In April of 2007, Lisa is curating the 2nd RED Festival at Lula Lounge. This four day festival will feature multidisciplinary performances by artists from Toronto and abroad.

Apart from curating and performing, Lisa has recently begun to use her experience as an artist to help others. After studying with creativity coach Eric Maisel, Lisa has begun to coach artists and those who crave more art in their life.

Lisa’s upcoming projects include creating a one woman puppet show, The Zoe Show and expanding her storytelling repetoire. In November of 2006, she will be filming her one-woman show, She Said Saffron.