Nagao Akemi is a PoC choreographer, dancer, and slowist, has been crafting pieces addressing discrimination and inequality since 2015. Her artistic interests involve the exploration and re-evaluation of the complex conflict between social structures and individual human psychology. Her choreography presents a distinctive and optimistic angle on these topics. She graduated from MA choreography (maC), HZT Berlin in 2021.
Nagao Akemi
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Last update : 14 May. 2024
Works
Grandmothers
© Roman Hagenbrock, 2023
Choreography and Dance: Johanna Ackva and Nagao Akemi
Composition: Evelyn Saylor
Fabric and Costume: Bettina Melt
Light: Susana Alonso, Grandmothers Team
Technical support: Aiko Okamoto
Performance Stills © Anna Agliardi, Roman Hagenbrock, Aïsha Mia Lethen
Video Documentation © Diethild Meier & Sonia Dipir, Roman Hagenbrock, Max Hilsamer
DIAMOND - The Crossing Point of Money and Spirituality
© Nagao Akemi, 2021
Direction, choreography, camera, video editing: Nagao Akemi
Co-choreography, dance, voice: Lyllie Rouvière
Costume: Federico Polucci
Composition, video post production: Michael Berentsen Tuttle
Space: Yassu Yabara
Dramaturgy: Max Lindemann
Co-research: Segawa Tetsumi
Camera: Noam Gorbat
Technical director: Andreas Harder
Technical Support: Ingmar Steinfurth, Knut Polster und Michael Rautenberg
Adviser: Christiane Berger, Wanda Golonka
Mentor: Isabel Robson, Meg Stuart, Melanie Jame Wolf
Photo: Elma Riza
PR: Katja Wiegand, Judith Brückmann und Talea Schuré
Kind support by Deutscher Bühnenverein/Landesverband Berlin, Deutschlandstipendium, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
JUICY ♡ METAMORPHOSIS
© Nagao Akemi, 2019
concept, direction, choreography: Nagao Akemi
concept, composition: Tomoya Yokokawa
co-choreography, vocal: David Bloom, Viviana Defazio
stage: Nagao Akemi, Kristina Schmidt
costume: Nagao Akemi, Sarah Ornning, Federico Polucci
light: Kristina Schmidt
video documentation: Deniz Şimşek
photo documentation: Anna Benháková
outside eyes: Christiane Berger, Wanda Golonka, Ingo Reulecke
Premiere 20 +21 OCTOBER 2019, 20:30
at HfS Ernst Busch