A 3-Day Workshop with Megumi Eda
Who is this for? You don’t need to be a dancer or have a finished idea—of course dancers are very welcome! This workshop is for anyone who wants to reflect on their life, face their own story, or, for performers, expand their creative approach to performance.
Dates:
December 14-16, 2026
Time: 11:00–17:00 (Presentation on December 16 at 18:00)
Participants: Limited to 12
PRICE:
Early Bird: €170 payment by October 15 (first 5 places)
Regular: Sliding Scale €200–250 Choose the amount that feels possible for you.
*If the fee is a barrier, please feel free to contact me.
Info & Registration:megumiedart@gmail.com
Location:
DOCK 11 EDEN***** Studios (studio 190 OG)
Breite Str 43, 13187 Berlin / district Pankow
After a beautiful and intimate September edition, Turning Your Story Into Movement returns to EDEN Studios for three days of autobiographical performance-making.
Participant Feedback
“You never had an ‘I know it better’ attitude, which I find very important. At the same time, the workshop had a very clear and comprehensible structure , with space for spontaneity and an invitation to co-creation.” — Markus
“The most memorable part was giving my own presentation, which I was convinced I would not be able to do. Overcoming that moment felt powerful and very rewarding.” — Kaimé
“Somehow the level just fits everyone — such a rare and beautiful quality to find.” — Giorgia
“Although it was powerful and liberating to tell my own story, I loved just as much — if not even more — witnessing each other’s processes.” — Inês
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This is the fourth edition of Turning Your Story Into Movement, a workshop that has evolved alongside my own artistic practice.
Over three days, each participant will use their own story to create a short autobiographical performance. We will work individually and together, sharing ideas, sometimes witnessing each other’s processes, all in the same warm room.
The workshop ends with an informal studio showing on the final evening. The work does not need to be finished or perfect. The aim is not to tell your whole life story, but to discover how a memory, an experience, or even a small fragment of your life might become performance.
For me, leading these workshops and creating my own work happen side by side. One continues to influence the other.
Over the past several years, I have been creating autobiographical solo works: Please Cry (2022), fish áɪ lens (2025), created in collaboration with choreographer Shintaro Oue, and most recently YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor (2026), created with composer and sound artist Reiko Yamada.
Each of these works has taken me through a completely different creative process. The journeys have been intensely creative and vulnerable — at times difficult and lonely, occasionally amusing, and also healing. They are all still very much alive in my body.
This workshop grows directly out of these experiences, together with my many years as a dancer. And the workshops themselves continue to bring new questions into my artistic practice.
I believe a memory does not need to be represented literally in order to reveal something true. We can translate it. Through movement, voice, rhythm, images, silence, and presence, lived experience can become an abstract physical language — something deeply personal that may, somehow, open a door into someone else’s story too.
After more than 30 years on stages around the world, this is the kind of work I care most about now: raw, honest, playful, and intimate.
Above all, I look forward to connecting with you — and seeing what we discover together.
— Megumi Eda
Over the three days, we will:
● Warm up together. I will introduce some of the practices I use in my own work, helping you gradually enter a more creative state and open up new ways of approaching both body and mind.
● Shape your story. Through memory practices (you’ll find out! ;)) and other exercises, you’ll pick an episode, a memory, or maybe just a tiny fragment from your life that somehow stays with you. From there, we’ll play with what to focus on, what to colour, what to exaggerate — and what to let go.
● Create your own performance — solo or with others. You will dive more deeply into your story, shape it into a performance, and eventually share it with the group. And yes, it won’t all be easy and comfortable — there is a deadline, so there may be a little pressure too! But the work does not need to be perfect. The aim is simply to make something, complete it, put it out there — and see what you discover through doing it.
Megumi Eda is a Japanese performer, dancemaker and filmmaker based in Berlin. Over a performing career spanning more than 30 years, she has worked with Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company and Armitage Gone! Dance in New York, where she was a founding member and received a Bessie Award.
Her recent artistic practice centers on autobiographical performance, exploring memory, identity, migration and lived experience through movement, storytelling and film. Recent works include Please Cry (2022), fish áɪ lens (2025), and YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor (2026).
Find more about Megumi: megumieda.com