MEGUMIEDA
Turning Your Story Into Movement:
An Autobiographical Workshop (Edition 2)
A 3-Day Workshop with Megumi Eda
For artists, movers, and anyone interested in exploring autobiography through the body.
No dance experience necessary.
Feb 18–20, 2026 | EDEN Studio 300, Berlin
11:00–17:00 (includes lunch break)
Presentation: Feb 20 at 18:00
Sliding scale: €160–240 (recommended €200)
Info & Registration: megumiedart@gmail.com
What participants said about the first workshop:
“You have a calming, but at the same time pushing energy , funny, serious, and very clear. You took time for everyone, and it felt like you were researching together with us.”
— Clara
“I have participated in many workshops across the city, but this was the first time one truly resonated with me so deeply.”
— Kaimé
“ People from very different backgrounds — even non-dancers — could all take part without feeling lost or bored.
That balance is rare and beautiful.”
— Giorgia
Welcome
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.
You don’t need to be a dancer to join — though dancers are of course are welcome! This workshop is for anyone who wants to reflect on their life, face their own story, or expand their creative approach to performance.
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 my many years of experience as a dancer.
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.
I hope you’ll join me. — Megumi Eda
Photo Credit: Kai Bernstein
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first workshop. Markus, Ines, Natsuki, Giorgia, Clara, Kai, Yiota, Jana, Kaimé, Samar, Mayuko
Workshop Focus
Over three days, we will:
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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.
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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.)
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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.
BIo
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.
Who is this for?
You don’t need to be a dancer or have a finished idea—but 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, to expand their creative approach to performance.
...And
the three days are held in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. At the same time, there is a clear time frame and a simple deadline.
🙂 One thing I believe is that pressure can help to focus and open space for creativity to emerge in ways you might not expect. It often allows the subconscious to appear in unexpected ways — sometimes even surprising yourself. Most importantly, it gives you the feeling of having created something that is truly your own.
So yes, there is a bit of pressure, but, my grandma used to say "tough love ❤️ " but it’s a playful kind. I invite you to experiment with it, stay curious, and not take it too seriously.