Dates:
December 14 –16, 2026
Time: 11:00–17:00 (Presentation on September 4 at 18:00)
Participants: Limited to 14
Fee: Sliding scale: €200–260
Suggested contribution: €230 Info & Registration: megumiedart@gmail.com
Location:
DOCK 11 EDEN***** Studios (studio 190 OG)
Breite Str 43, 13187 Berlin / district Pankow
A 3-Day Workshop with Megumi Eda
For artists of all disciplines—and anyone interested in creativity, autobiography, and performance.
No previous dance or performance experience is necessary. This workshop welcomes anyone interested in discovering new ways of creating through the body
This is the third 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.
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 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 three 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 through this workshop.
— Megumi Eda
Megumi Eda is a dancemaker and filmmaker originally from Japan. Drawing from over three decades of international experience as a performer, her recent artistic work explores memory, migration, womanhood, motherhood, and the politics of the body. After participating in Prix de Lausanne, she began an international performing career spanning over thirty years, working with companies including Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and Armitage Gone! Dance in New York, where she was a founding member and recipient of a Bessie Award. Alongside her performing career, Megumi has developed an independent artistic practice centered on autobiographical performance-making. Her recent work combines movement, storytelling, film, and experimental performance structures, often exploring themes of identity, displacement, institutional structures, aging, and lived experience. Since relocating to Berlin in 2019, she has increasingly focused on developing her own artistic practice through performance, film, research-based work, and teaching. Recent works include Please Cry (2022), DIVINE (2023), fish áɪ lens (2025), and YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor (2026).
Over three days, we will:
- We will warm up together.Megumi will share some of the practices she uses in her own work, as an invitation to gradually enter a creative state. — opening new ways of accessing your body and mind.
- Shape your story.
Choose a specific episode, memory, or fragment from your life with guidance from Megumi (and your peers), decide what to emphasize, what to add color to, and what to let go. (If you already have a story, you’re very welcome to work with it.) - Create your own performance. (solo or group)
Fully immerse yourself in your story, create it, and present it. It won't just be fun, of course. It doesn’t have to be perfect — the goal is completion and personal accomplishment.
Find more about Megumi: megumieda.com