{"id":1017,"date":"2020-04-07T21:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/?page_id=1017"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:12:23","slug":"works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/?page_id=1017","title":{"rendered":"artistic works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-vk-heading-solid_bottomborder_black has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6c27ad\">Selected Artistic Works<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan (2025)<br>Concept and Moderator for The Ageing Body in Dance \u2013 What Goes Beyond Dance. Accompanying Event, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch \u201cSweet Mambo.\u201d Speakers: Tenko Ima, Koji Takabayashi, Reginald Lefebvre, Julie Anne Stanzak. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WASEDA UNIVERSITY, Tokyo,Japan (2025)<br>Organizer for Dramaturgy Lecture &amp; Workshop by Katherine Profeta, Professor in the Practice in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNIVERSIDADE CAT\u00d3LICA PORTUGUESA, RnA STUDIO, Lisbon, Portugal&nbsp;(2025)<br>Keynote speaker for the symposium \u201cEchoes of Age.\u201d Concept and Direction for \u201cNoh to Trio A\u201d media exhibition at RnA Studio. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>THE BANFF CENTER FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Canada (2022-2024)<br>Faculty Dramaturg, Dance Artists in Residence Program. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>STREAMING HERITAGE, Contemporary Arts Festival of Nagoya, Japan&nbsp;(2021)<br>Concept and Direction for Lecture Performance \u201cNoh to Trio A\u201d at the Nagoya Noh Theater. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, Kyoto, Japan (2021-2023)<br>Principal Researcher and Project Director, \u201cDance Dramaturgy of Aging\u201d for the Joint.  Usage\/Research Center by MEXT, Kyoto University of the Arts, Fiscal Year 2022.    -Public Showing \u201cBeyond KATA: An Evening by Dancers, Noh Performer, and Researchers in Japan with Mengfan Wang from Beijing,\u201d August 21, 2022. Senshu-do Hall, Kyoto University of the Arts.  -Final Showing, \u201cBeyond KATA: Resonance of Voices,\u201d Performers with the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Chorus, March 11, 2023. Kyoto Prefectural Office Former Assembly Room. Project Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/?page_id=2142\">http:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/?page_id=2142<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DANCE ARCHIVE BOX BERLIN, Berlin, Germany (2019-2020)<br>Project Director and Dramaturg as Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at the Berlin Freie Universit\u00e4t, premier in February 2020 at the Akademie der K\u00fcnste Berlin. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PICHET KLUNCHUN, Bangkok, Thailand (2019-2020)<br>Dramaturg for his Ramayana project with Chen Wu-Kang, premier in August 2020 at the National Performing Arts Center, Taiwan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>WANG MENGFAN, Beijing, China (2019)<br>Dramaturg for her tanztheater featuring aging, revolutionary ballet dancers, \u201cWHEN MY CUE COMES, CALL ME, AND I WILL ANSWER\u201d at Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China, Oct 25-27, 2019, Inside-Out Theater, Beijing, China, Nov. 1-3, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan (2018-2019)<br>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>THANAPOL VIRULHAKUL, Bangkok, Thailand (2018-2019)<br>Co-Dramaturg for his choreographic research process \u201cRetreat\u201d at the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019, Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN, Kyoto, Japan (2017-2018)<br>Project Director, \u201cDance Dramaturgy on Aging\u201d for the 2017 joint research project, the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Performing Art. <br>\u201cYvonne Rainer Performative Exhibition\u201d at the Kyoto Art Theater Shunju-za, October 11\u201315, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/rainer\/\">Project Website.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DOMINO PROJECT, Zagreb-Tokyo, Croatia-Japan (2017-2018)<br>Dramaturg for \u201cSuddenly everywhere\u201d the dance duet choreographed by Bruno Isakovi\u0107 Rehearsals in Zagreb, Showings in Tokyo, on February 15-16, 2018, Morishita Studio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>YEBISU INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ART &amp; ALTERNATIVE VISIONS, Japan (2017)<br>Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Guest Programmer for Dance Video Section, \u201cDancing Multiple Future\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TPAM 2016 Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan (2016)<br>TPAM Direction, Program Director and Curator \u201cDance Archive Boxes@TPAM2016\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SEBASTIAN MATTHIAS, Choreographer, Berlin, Germany (2014-2016)<br>Dramaturg for \u201cx\/groove space\u201d at tanzhaus NRW, Tanz im August, Festival Tokyo, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M., June 2016 \u2013Jan. 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ONG KENG SEN, Theater and Festival Director, Singapore (2014-2015)<br>Dramaturg for \u201cArchiving Dance, Dance Marathon: OPEN WITH A PUNK SPIRIT! Archive Box\u201d, 2014 Saison Foundation; 2015, Singapore International Festival of Arts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OSAMU JAREO, Choreographer, Osaka, Japan (2008-2012)<br>Dramaturg for \u201cTheater Thikwa plus Junkan Project\u201d at F40 Theater, Berlin, ArtTheater dB, Kobe, Japan, and KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KOOSIL-JA HWANG, Choreographer and Dancer, New York, New York, USA (2006-2007)<br>Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for \u201cmech[a]OUTPUT\u201d at the Japan Society 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TRAJAL HARRELL, Choreographer, New York, New York, USA (2006 &#8211; 2007)<br>Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for \u201cShowpony\u201d at St. Mark&#8217;s Church In-the-Bowery, Jan. 25-28, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LUCIANA ACHUGAR, Choreographer, New York, New York, USA (2006)<br>Dramaturg, provide artistic advice for Bessie award winning \u201cExhausting Love at Danspace Project\u201d at St. Mark&#8217;s Church In-the-Bowery, Nov. 9-12, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>THE CROSSING JAMAICA AVENUE (Playwright Chiori Miyagawa, Director Sonoko Kawahara), New York, New York, USA (2006)<br>Dramaturgical Assistant for Thousand Years Waiting, Feb.-Mar., 2006, at PS122, New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CHAMECKILERNER, Artistic Directors\/Choreographers, New York, New York, US (2004 &#8211; 2005)<br>Dramaturg, provide artistic advice to artists concerning dramaturgy for a performance, \u201cCostumes by God\u201d at Dance Theater Workshop in New York, April, 2005; in Brazil, July, 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Artistic Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan (2025)<\/strong>\u3000Concept and moderator for\u00a0<em>The Aging Body in Dance: What Goes Beyond Dance<\/em>, an accompanying event for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sweet Mambo<\/em>. Speakers: Tenko Ima, Koji Takabayashi, Reginald Lefebvre, and Julie Anne Stanzak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>UNIVERSIDADE CAT\u00d3LICA PORTUGUESA and RnA STUDIO, Lisbon, Portugal (2025)<\/strong>\u3000Keynote speaker at the symposium\u00a0<em>Echoes of Age<\/em>. Concept and direction for the media exhibition\u00a0<em>Noh to Trio A<\/em>\u00a0at RnA Studio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Banff, Canada (2022\u20132024)<\/strong>\u3000Faculty Dramaturg for the Dance Artists in Residence program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Kyoto, Japan (2021\u20132023)<\/strong><br>Principal Researcher and Project Director of&nbsp;<em>Dance Dramaturgy of Aging<\/em>, a project of the Joint Usage\/Research Center at Kyoto University of the Arts, supported by MEXT.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public presentation:&nbsp;<em>Beyond KATA: An Evening with Dancers, a Noh Performer, and Researchers in Japan, featuring Mengfan Wang from Beijing<\/em>, Senshu-do Hall, Kyoto University of the Arts, August 21, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Final presentation: <em>Beyond KATA: Resonance of Voices<\/em>, created in collaboration with members of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Chorus and presented at the Former Assembly Hall of the Kyoto Prefectural Office on March 11, 2023. The performers were selected for the Best Dancers Award by <em>The Dance Times<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>STREAMING HERITAGE: Contemporary Art Festival of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan (2021)<\/strong><br>Concept and direction for the lecture-performance&nbsp;<em>Noh to Trio A<\/em>&nbsp;at the Nagoya Noh Theater.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DANCE ARCHIVE BOX BERLIN, Berlin, Germany (2019\u20132020)<\/strong><br>Project Director and Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>Dance Archive Box Berlin<\/em>, developed during her appointment as Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. The project premiered at the Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berlin, in February 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PICHET KLUNCHUN, Bangkok, Thailand (2019\u20132020)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for a Ramayana-based project created by Pichet Klunchun and Chen Wu-Kang. The work premiered at the National Performing Arts Center in Taiwan in August 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>WANG MENGFAN, Beijing, China (2019)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>When My Cue Comes, Call Me, and I Will Answer<\/em>, a dance-theatre work featuring retired revolutionary ballet dancers. Presented at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China, October 25\u201327, 2019, and at Inside-Out Theater, Beijing, November 1\u20133, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan (2018\u20132019)<\/strong><br>Co-organizer, with Dr. Keiko Kawano, of a workshop on poetics and dance featuring Kyong-mi Park, Setsuko Yamada, and Hikaru Okamoto, March 9, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>THANAPOL VIRULHAKUL, Bangkok, Thailand (2018\u20132019)<\/strong><br>Co-dramaturg for the choreographic research project&nbsp;<em>Retreat<\/em>, presented at the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM) in 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN, Kyoto, Japan (2017\u20132018)<\/strong><br>Project Director of&nbsp;<em>Dance Dramaturgy on Aging<\/em>, a 2017 joint research project of the university\u2019s Interdisciplinary Research Center for Performing Arts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Concept and direction for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/rainer\/\"><em>Yvonne Rainer Performative Exhibition<\/em>,<\/a> presented at Kyoto Art Theater Shunju-za, October 11\u201315, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DOMINO PROJECT, Zagreb and Tokyo, Croatia and Japan (2017\u20132018)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>Suddenly Everywhere<\/em>, a dance duet choreographed by Bruno Isakovi\u0107. Rehearsals took place in Zagreb, followed by presentations at Morishita Studio in Tokyo on February 15\u201316, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>YEBISU INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ART &amp; ALTERNATIVE VISIONS, Tokyo, Japan (2017)<\/strong><br>Guest Programmer for the dance-video program&nbsp;<em>Dancing Multiple Futures<\/em>&nbsp;at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PERFORMING ARTS MEETING IN YOKOHAMA (TPAM), Yokohama, Japan (2016)<\/strong><br>Program Director and Curator of&nbsp;<em>Dance Archive Boxes @ TPAM 2016<\/em>, presented as part of TPAM Direction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SEBASTIAN MATTHIAS, Berlin, Germany (2014\u20132016)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>x \/ groove space<\/em>, presented at tanzhaus nrw, Tanz im August, Festival\/Tokyo, and K\u00fcnstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, from June 2016 to January 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ONG KENG SEN, Singapore (2014\u20132015)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>Archiving Dance\u2014Dance Marathon: OPEN WITH A PUNK SPIRIT! Archive Box<\/em>, developed with support from the Saison Foundation in 2014 and presented at the Singapore International Festival of Arts in 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>OSAMU JAREO, Osaka, Japan (2008\u20132012)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg for&nbsp;<em>Theater Thikwa + Junkan Project<\/em>, presented at Theater F40 in Berlin, ArtTheater dB in Kobe, and KYOTO EXPERIMENT in 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KOOSIL-JA HWANG, New York, USA (2006\u20132007)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg and artistic advisor for&nbsp;<em>mech[a]OUTPUT<\/em>, presented at Japan Society in New York in 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>TRAJAL HARRELL, New York, USA (2006\u20132007)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg and artistic advisor for&nbsp;<em>Showpony<\/em>, presented at St. Mark\u2019s Church in-the-Bowery, January 25\u201328, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>LUCIANA ACHUGAR, New York, USA (2006)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg and artistic advisor for the Bessie Award\u2013winning&nbsp;<em>Exhausting Love at Danspace Project<\/em>, presented at St. Mark\u2019s Church in-the-Bowery, November 9\u201312, 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>THE CROSSING JAMAICA AVENUE, New York, USA (2006)<\/strong><br>Dramaturgical Assistant for&nbsp;<em>Thousand Years Waiting<\/em>, written by Chiori Miyagawa and directed by Sonoko Kawahara, presented at Performance Space 122 in February\u2013March 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CHAMECKILERNER, New York, USA (2004\u20132005)<\/strong><br>Dramaturg and artistic advisor for&nbsp;<em>Costumes by God<\/em>, presented at Dance Theater Workshop in New York in April 2005 and in Brazil in July 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected Artistic Works Selected Artistic Works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1017","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanakonakajima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}