YORIDOKORO
-Silent Anchor (2026)

Where is your “safe place”? This work explores the Japanese concept of kokoro no yoridokoro—a place of grounding or return—through the relationship between body, space, and sound, asking what it means to exist.

For me, it is a place where I can be as I am, without holding anything back.

YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor emerges from a paradox I have felt throughout my career: that the moment I am performing on stage may also be when I feel most myself—perhaps when I am least performing.

This work follows my previous piece fish ái Lens in collaboration with Shintaro Oue, and becomes my second autobiographical work. This time, I turn toward what I have not wanted to speak about—sensations and memories I have left unspoken.

Together with composer and sound artist Reiko Yamada, I explore how space, distance, stillness, and being observed shape emotional and physical states, within a shared environment between performer and audience.

In the end, the work moves toward a single question: Where is my true safe place?
Megumi Eda

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Credit:
Concept, performance: Megumi Eda
Composer, sound artist: Reiko Yamada
Photo Kai Bernstein
Lights: Daniel Miranda
Costume: Mylla Ek
Dramaturgy / Outside Eye: Peter Pleyer, Katja Vaghi, and Shintaro Oue

Supported by DOCK ART, TIR Danza, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), Theaterhaus Berlin and ICFO

Duration: 60 min
Language: Japanese, English

Please Cry (2022)

Megumi Eda performs a solo with live video and music based on personal and imagined memories of her grandmother: a Japanese military nurse.

She uses her mobile phone as a live prop and manipulates it during her performance, the footage of which is transmitted wirelessly and displayed on the big screen.

Premiered : October 2022 at Dock 11, Berlin

Concept / Dance / Video: Megumi Eda

Composition / Sound: Reiko Yamada

Beautiful Boy

Beautiful boy is dance and theater solo performance. Inspired by a little boy who is/was hoping to become a superhero one day and to create a nostalgic feeling of a little boy's dream...

Sculpture, set and props, video, choreography and performance by Megumi Eda

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8:15 (2004)

8.15 is an attempt to understand something about war using dance.

There is a melted watch frozen at 8:15 in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Happy times stopped over Hiroshima at 8:15on the morning of August 6, 1945.

Premired on March 2004 in London

Concept & Choreography : Megumi Eda,

Creative Collaborator : Kimie Nakano,

Film : Nathan Buck

Performers : Paul Liburd,Simon Cooper

,Robin Gladwin, Fabrice Serafino

Life Is Long (2003)

It's something I wish I'd said to a friend...

This is a diary of images from dreams and memories created only to put some form around them.

Choreography and Performance by 

Megumi Eda

fish ái lens (2025)

"fish άɪ lens" is a multidisciplinary autobiographical dance performance by Megumi Eda, filled with humor, heart, and a touch of whimsy.

The piece is structured into six chapters, like following a map, tracing the key stages of Megumi’s life across Nagano/Japan, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Berlin. Leaving Japan at 16 to chase ballet dreams, Megumi’s journey is marked by cultural blunders, language mishaps, and poignant self-discovery. Much like a fisheye lens—distorting and reframing—her experiences reveal unexpected truths.

Joining her is a shadow - Shintaro Oue, a teenage friend she astoundingly hadn’t seen in 30 years. Together, they explore the places and moments that shaped Megumi’s artistry, blending past and present to create a vivid, transformative narrative experience.

"fish άɪ lens" aims to go beyond Megumi's personal story and share new perspectives and rich emotions with audiences.

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Stage direction: Shintaro Oue

Music: Kazuhisa Uchihashi

Costume: Mylla Ek 

Lighting: Bryan Schall

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Concept, Performance: Megumi Eda

DIVINE (2022)

DIVINE is an ongoing project by butoh dancer, Yuko Kaseki and ballet dancer, Megumi Eda inspired by tragic tales of wronged and resilient women such as ballet’s “Giselle” and the classic Japanese Kaidan ghost story “Oiwa.” 

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Work in progress First public performance: November 2022 

at Studio 2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin  

Concept / making / performance:

Yuko Kaseki & Megumi Eda

Sound Composer: Reiko Yamada

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This work is supported by a commission from CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)

HANA (2005)

Based on Yukio Mishima's story "Music" and the life and Writing of Sigmund Freud.

To create a physical/dance metaphor for the process of psycho-analysis, focussing on the doctor-patient relationship and exploration of the subconscious.

Design & Choreography : Megumi Eda

Video Design : Lara Ritosa Roberts

Production Support : Nathan Buck

Performers : Hanna Ahti,

Eugene W Rhodes lll, Ardee Dionisio

Break in the Routine (2004)

This is duet about people trying to free themselves from their daily habits. 

Concept & Choreography : Megumi Eda

Artistic Collaborator: Nathan Buck

Performers: Megumi Eda & Nathan Buck