Turning Your Story Into Movement: An Autobiographical Workshop

Turning Your Story Into Movement: An Autobiographical Workshop, led by Megumi Eda, invites each participant to create their own performance piece over three days using their personal story as material.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to reflect on their life, face their own story, or expand their creative approach to performance. You don’t need to be a dancer to join.
Megumi’s autobiographical solo work Fish áɪ lens (2025), created in Berlin, 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.
This workshop grows directly out of that creative journey and Megumi’s many years of experience as a performer and maker.

Day 1
On the first day, we begin with an introduction, taking time to get to know one another and build a sense of trust within the group. A warm-up grounded in the "Here and Now" helps settle the body and focus on the present moment.

Through a guided memory exercise in pairs developed by Megumi, participants begin accessing lived memory — small fragments, sensations, and personal episodes start to surface.
We then explore how these memories can move from story into structure. Using simple compositional tools focused on time, shape, and movement, participants begin to approach dance not only as expression, but as something that can be observed and shaped.

By the end of the day, each person senses an autobiographical fragment ready to be developed.

Day 2
On Day 2, participants continue working with time, space, and movement, now including emotion as part of the structure — not as decoration, but as material.

In the afternoon, each person begins shaping their own work more clearly. Witnessing one another’s process creates shared responsibility and accountability within the group.

Throughout the day, Megumi accompanies each participant’s creative process — listening, asking questions, and supporting them in clarifying the direction their autobiographical work wants to take.

Day 3
On the third day, we begin with a warm-up, then focus entirely on shaping each participant’s work.

We continue working with partners, strengthening clarity and accountability. Megumi looks closely at the structure and flow of each piece — how space is used, how the audience is positioned, and how sound enters.

At the end, each participant presents their autobiographical work.

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Megumi Eda is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, theater, and live image-making.
Born in Japan and trained in classical ballet, she began her professional career at the age of 17 and performed internationally with companies including Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, and Rambert Dance Company.
She later worked as an independent artist in New York for fifteen years, including with Karole Armitage’s Armitage Gone! Dance, before settling in Berlin in 2019.
After decades as a performer, she shifted toward creating author-driven multimedia works that examine embodied memory, endurance, and the relationship between live action and its mediation.

LIMITED SPOTS

17th 18th 19th April

11:00 - 17:00