MEGUMIEDA
A 3-Day Workshop with Megumi Eda
For artists, movers, and anyone ready to explore autobiography through the body.
September 26–28, 2025 | EDEN Studio 300, Berlin
11:00–17:00 (includes lunch break)
Sliding scale: €130– €200 (Recommended price €160)
“It’s not often that you get to see a great artist perform in three different countries, each time in works that could not be more different. Megumi Eda is constantly challenging herself, following her curiosity and placing her talent in the service of new visions in ways that expand our understanding of what she can do, who she can be. In doing so, she reminds us that our own limitations are self-imposed and can be exchanged for new horizons.”
— Christopher Pelham
This September, I will lead my first ever workshop titled "Turning Your Story Into Movement: An Autobiographical Workshop", where participants will create their own autobiographical pieces.
You don’t need to be a dancer to join — though dancers are of course 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
This three-day workshop has two main objectives:
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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.
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Embody your story — Explore the joy of performance: fully inhabiting your story and living vividly in the present moment.
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.
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.