Dates: Feb 18–20, 2026
11:00–17:00 (includes lunch break)
Presentation: Feb 20 at 18:00
Sliding scale: €160–240 (recommended €200)
Info & Registration: megumiedart@gmail.com
Location:
DOCK 11 EDEN***** Studios (studio 190 EG)
Breite Str 43, 13187 Berlin / district Pankow
A 3-Day Workshop with Megumi Eda
For artists, movers, and anyone interested in exploring autobiography through the body. You don’t need to be a dancer to join — though dancers are of course very welcome. This workshop is for anyone curious to reflect on their life, face their own story, or expand their creative approach to performance.
This is the second edition of Turning Your Story Into Movement. Following the successful workshop in September, I’m happy to open this next chapter and continue developing this space together. Of course, first-timers are very welcome, and those who participated last time will likely want to revise it, so you can go deeper into what you did last time, or take a new approach and go on a journey to create a treasure that is unique to you! In this workshop titled "Turning Your Story Into Movement: An Autobiographical Workshop", each participant will use their own story to create a piece.
My latest autobiographical solo piece, Fish áɪ lens (2025) at Dock 11, Berlin—created in collaboration with choreographer Shintaro Oue—is a multidisciplinary performance filled with humor, heart, and a touch of whimsy. It explores memory, migration, womanhood, motherhood, and the layered experience of being a body in motion across borders. The process—intensely creative, vulnerable, and healing—is still fresh in my body. This workshop grows directly out of that journey and weaves together my artistic practice and life experience.
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 opportunity. — Megumi Eda
Testimony from the first workshop taker.
*“You have a calming, at the same time pushing energy, are funny and also serious and very clear. And you took time for everyone. And it felt as if you were also researching together with us.Thank you for all of that!”
“I would absolutely love to attend every workshop you offer. You are incredible. I have participated in many workshops across the city, but this was the first time one truly resonated with me so deeply.”
“I found it fascinating that people from such different backgrounds, sometimes not even dance, could all take the same workshop without either feeling like they were falling behind or that it was too easy. Somehow the level just fi ts everyone and it's such a rare and beautiful quality to find. “*
Megumi Eda is a dancemaker and filmmaker originally from Japan. She began her international career at the age of 17 with the Hamburg Ballet and went on to perform with the Dutch National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company in London, and Armitage Gone! Dance in New York.
In 2004, she joined Armitage Gone! Dance, appearing in over 20 new works as choreographer Karole Armitage’s muse. That same year, she received the New York Dance Performance Award (Bessie Award), and was named Best Performer by Dance Magazine in both 2009 and 2015.
In 2013, she met Yoshiko Chuma, a New York-based activist and conceptual artist—beginning a creative partnership that continues to this day.
Since 2012, Eda has expanded her practice to include filmmaking and video art, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the lines between stage, screen, and personal archive. Her recent works include Please Cry (2022), DIVINE (2023), and Fish áɪ lens (2025).
Her artistic exploration centers on three themes: multigenerational war trauma, being a woman, and institutional abuse within the dance world. Now based in Berlin, she is committed to fostering raw, autobiographical performance that uses the body as a vessel for memory, story, and transformation. Through deeply personal narratives, she aims to create work that resonates beyond the self—stories that speak to something larger, that touch on the universal, and that invite others to see parts of themselves reflected within them.
This three-day workshop has two main objectives:
1. We will warm up together. I will share the practice I do (both physical and mental) to create a state that is conducive to creation. Hope to open new ways of getting access to your own body and mind.
2. Shape your story — Choose a specific episode from your life and, with guidance from Megumi (and your peers), decide what to emphasize, what to add color to, and what to let go. Begin creating from the strongest, most unique parts of yourself. Of course, if you have already specific story, you are welcome to use it
3. Embrace your story — Explore the joy of performance. Fully immerse yourself in your story, create it, and present it. It doesn't have to be perfect, just for your own accomplishment.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be invited to share a short showing (5–15 minutes) of what emerged. It doesn’t need to be polished—it just needs to be yours. 📹 As a takeaway, each participant’s final showing will be recorded and shared privately afterward—something to look back on, learn from, and grow with.
Check more about this workshop: megumieda.com/copy-of-workshop-info