Megumi Eda is a Japanese dancemaker and filmmaker who began her international career at 17 with the Hamburg Ballet, later performing with Dutch National Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and Armitage Gone! Dance in New York. In 2004 she received the New York Dance Performance Award (Bessie Award) and she was also named Best Performer by Dance Magazine in 2009 and 2015. Since 2012, Eda has expanded into filmmaking and video art, creating multidisciplinary works that blur stage, screen, and personal archive. Her recent projects include Please Cry (2022), DIVINE (2023), and Fish áɪ lens (2025). Now based in Berlin, her work explores multigenerational war trauma, womanhood, and institutional abuse in dance, using autobiographical performance to transform personal memory into shared experience.