長尾 Nagao
明実 Akemi
Choreograph | Dancer | Slowist

https://nagaoakemi.wixsite.com/akemi-nagao
nagaoakemi.info@gmail.com
0049 176 36844578
she/herJapanese: Mother Tongue,
English: B2-Level, German: B2-Level
Based in Berlin, Germany© photo: Aïsha Mia Lethen

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 andre-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 fromMA choreography (maC), HZT Berlin in 2021.
Education
2018

Master Choreography (MaC) at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin(HZT) / Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin (HfS)
2002-2008 Bachelor Human Sciences at Osaka International University
Funding & Scholarships
2022#TakeHeart Residenzförderung / Project: thank you - money (a researchproject)
2019-2021 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2019-2020 Deutschen Bühnenverein/Landesverband Berlin / Project: JUICY ♡METAMORPHOSIS and DIAMOND – The Crossing Point of Money andSpirituality at maC, HZT Berlin
2018
Deutschlandstipendium
2017
5. Internationales Choreografenatelier – space we live, at Tanztendenz Munich,invited by Micha Purucker
Residency
2024
2023
2022
2016
2015
2014

Saturday Digestion, Research Residency, Dance Box, Kobe, Japan
Grandmothers, Berliner Residenzprogramm Vertiefungen, Uferstudios Berlin
thank you - money, Der Denk- und Produktionsort Libken (Gerswalde)
in between, collaboration with Elma Riza and Aurélie Pertusot, TCRM-Blida Metz(Frankreich)collective三(3), collaboration with William “Bilwa” Costa and Jasmin Schaitl,Kaaitheater (Brüssel), tanzfabrik (Berlin)collective三(3), collaboration with William “Bilwa” Costa and Jasmin Schaitl,
Kaaitheather Living in collaboration with workspacebrussels (Brüssel)

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2022-232022
2014-15
2014

Saturday Digestion, collaboration with Sabrina Huth
Evening Digestion, weekly class, Sommer Semester, HZT Berlin
Saturday Digestion, workshop, Winter Semester, HZT Berlin
Saturday Digestion, workshop, Sommer Semester, UdK Berlin
listening, weekly calss, Tatwerk Berlin
Performance Workshop, collaboration with William “Bilwa” Costa, Universität fürangewandte Kunst Wien

Works (selected)
2023
Grandmothers: collaboration with Johanna Ackva, Evelyn Sayler and Bettina
Melte, Vierte Welt, Berlin
2022
BIO-DIVERSE-CITY: collaboration with Gabriel Galindez Cruz and Tamara
Rettenmund, Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, as a part of Moving
the Forum by Jo Parkes and Jana Lüthje
durch|glas: collaboration with Giovanni Verga and Hannah Grimme, BHROX
Berlin2021
Grandmothers: collaboration with Johanna Ackva and Evelyn Sayler, Ballhaus Ost
Berlin, as a part of Dirty Debüt by Björn Pätz and Sandra UmathumCLOUDS ON CLEAR SKY: collaboration with Johanna Ackva, Vierte Welt Berlin
DIAMOND – The Crossing Point of Money and Spirituality: HZT Berlin
2019
JUICY ♡ METAMORPHOSIS: collaboration with Tomoya Yokokawa, HfS Ernst BuschB OR D ER S?: HfS Ernst Busch Berlin
GOLDEN DELUSIONS: collaboration with Biliana Voutchkova, Hans Peter Kuhn
and Wada Junko, Supported by EU-Japan Fest, SKLAD, Plovdiv
2017
Dictum of Nature: collaboration with Anna Kubelík, Akademie Schloss Solitude
Stuttgart, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Dead End: Secret Journey. State 1-2: collaboration with Yoshiko Chuma, Dock11Berlin
2016
Aba: collaboration with Min Oh, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
Introspective and Cortex: collaboration with Choy Ka Fai, tanz haus nrw,Düsseldorf
2015
The Choreography of Things: collaboration with Choy Ka Fai, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin
CONVERSION_2, After Afghanistan: collaboration with costa compagine,
Scharoun Theater Wolfsburg, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, KAMPNAGEL Hamburg,
Goethe Institute NYC, Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater in Vassar College(Poughkeepsie, NY, USA), FFT Juta Düsseldorf, Theater am Lend (Graz, Austria),
Theater and Orchestra Heidelberg

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