Hana Umeda is a performer, director, dancer, graduate of cultural studies at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, student of the master Hanasaki Tokijyo, head of the Hanasaki-ryu school in Tokyo, and Natori in the Jiutamai Hanasaki-ryu school. She is a participant of the SoDA-MA programme at HZT, Berlin University of the Arts. In 2020 she took the name Sada Hanasaki as a Jiutamai Hanasaki-ryu dancer. Between 2021 and 2023 she was a member of the collective „Centrum w Ruchu“ [Centre in Movement]. In 2018, she was a scholarship holder of the „Młoda Polska“ programme of the National Centre for Culture, where she made her debut as a director with a performance in KOMUNA WARSZAWA. In 2022, she won the first edition of the New Situations Scene Artistic Residency at the Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin, as part of which she realised her own work. Nominated in the IDFA DocLab competition for Immersive NonFiction, IDFA DocLab: Phenomenal Friction, Amsterdam, 2023 for VR with the title Close.
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