artistic works

Selected Artistic Works

• GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan (2025)
  Concept and Moderator for The Ageing Body in Dance – What Goes Beyond Dance. Accompanying Event, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch “Sweet Mambo.” Speakers: Tenko Ima, Koji Takabayashi, Reginald Lefebvre, Julie Anne Stanzak.
• WASEDA UNIVERSITY, Tokyo,Japan (2025)
  Organizer for Dramaturgy Lecture & Workshop by Katherine Profeta, Professor in the Practice in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
• UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA, RnA STUDIO, Lisbon, Portugal (2025)
  Keynote speaker for the symposium “Echoes of Age.” Concept and Direction for “Noh to Trio A” media exhibition at RnA Studio.
• THE BANFF CENTER FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Canada (2022-2024)
  Faculty Dramaturg, Dance Artists in Residence Program.
• STREAMING HERITAGE, Contemporary Arts Festival of Nagoya, Japan (2021)
  Concept and Direction for Lecture Performance “Noh to Trio A” at the Nagoya Noh Theater.
• KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, Kyoto, Japan (2021-2023)
  Principal Researcher and Project Director, “Dance Dramaturgy of Aging” for the Joint. Usage/Research Center by MEXT, Kyoto University of the Arts, Fiscal Year 2022. -Public Showing “Beyond KATA: An Evening by Dancers, Noh Performer, and Researchers in Japan with Mengfan Wang from Beijing,” August 21, 2022. Senshu-do Hall, Kyoto University of the Arts. -Final Showing, “Beyond KATA: Resonance of Voices,” Performers with the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Chorus, March 11, 2023. Kyoto Prefectural Office Former Assembly Room. Project Website: http://www.nanakonakajima.com/?page_id=2142
• DANCE ARCHIVE BOX BERLIN, Berlin, Germany (2019-2020)
  Project Director and Dramaturg as Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at the Berlin Freie Universität, premier in February 2020 at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.

• PICHET KLUNCHUN, Bangkok, Thailand (2019-2020)
  Dramaturg for his Ramayana project with Chen Wu-Kang, premier in August 2020 at the National Performing Arts Center, Taiwan.

• WANG MENGFAN, Beijing, China (2019)
  Dramaturg for her tanztheater featuring aging, revolutionary ballet dancers, “WHEN MY CUE COMES, CALL ME, AND I WILL ANSWER” at Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China, Oct 25-27, 2019, Inside-Out Theater, Beijing, China, Nov. 1-3, 2019.

• OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan (2018-2019)
  Co-Organizer with Dr. Keiko Kawano for a workshop on poetics and dance featuring Kyong-mi Park, Setsuko Yamada, and Hikaru Okamoto. March 9, 2019.

• THANAPOL VIRULHAKUL, Bangkok, Thailand (2018-2019)
  Co-Dramaturg for his choreographic research process “Retreat” at the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019, Japan.

• KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, Kyoto, Japan (2017-2018)
  Project Director, “Dance Dramaturgy on Aging” for the 2017 joint research project, the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Performing Art.
  “Yvonne Rainer Performative Exhibition” at the Kyoto Art Theater Shunju-za, October 11–15, 2017. Project Website.

• DOMINO PROJECT, Zagreb-Tokyo, Croatia-Japan (2017-2018)
  Dramaturg for “Suddenly everywhere” the dance duet choreographed by Bruno Isaković Rehearsals in Zagreb, Showings in Tokyo, on February 15-16, 2018, Morishita Studio.

• YEBISU INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ART & ALTERNATIVE VISIONS, Japan (2017)
  Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Guest Programmer for Dance Video Section, “Dancing Multiple Future”.

• TPAM 2016 Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan (2016)
  TPAM Direction, Program Director and Curator “Dance Archive Boxes@TPAM2016”.

• SEBASTIAN MATTHIAS, Choreographer, Berlin, Germany (2014-2016)
  Dramaturg for “x/groove space” at tanzhaus NRW, Tanz im August, Festival Tokyo, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M., June 2016 –Jan. 2017.

• ONG KENG SEN, Theater and Festival Director, Singapore (2014-2015)
  Dramaturg for “Archiving Dance, Dance Marathon: OPEN WITH A PUNK SPIRIT! Archive Box”, 2014 Saison Foundation; 2015, Singapore International Festival of Arts.

• OSAMU JAREO, Choreographer, Osaka, Japan (2008-2012)
  Dramaturg for “Theater Thikwa plus Junkan Project” at F40 Theater, Berlin, ArtTheater dB, Kobe, Japan, and KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2012.

• KOOSIL-JA HWANG, Choreographer and Dancer, New York, New York, USA (2006-2007)
  Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for “mech[a]OUTPUT” at the Japan Society 2007.

• TRAJAL HARRELL, Choreographer, New York, New York, USA (2006 – 2007)
  Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for “Showpony” at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, Jan. 25-28, 2007.

• LUCIANA ACHUGAR, Choreographer, New York, New York, USA (2006)
  Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for Bessie award winning “Exhausting Love at Danspace Project” at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, Nov. 9-12, 2006.

• THE CROSSING JAMAICA AVENUE (Playwright Chiori Miyagawa, Director Sonoko Kawahara), New York, New York, USA (2006)
  Dramaturgical Assistant for Thousand Years Waiting, Feb.-Mar., 2006, at PS122, New York.

• CHAMECKILERNER, Artistic Directors/Choreographers, New York, New York, US (2004 – 2005)
  Dramaturg, provide artistic advice to artists concerning dramaturgy for a performance, “Costumes by God” at Dance Theater Workshop in New York, April, 2005; in Brazil, July, 2005.

Selected Artistic Works