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See our plansDr. Nanako Nakajima is a dance scholar and dramaturg. She received the Special Commendation of the Elliott Hayes Award in 2017 for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the Literary Manager and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She has worked with festivals, theatres, and universities, where she integrates her research on ageing into dance. She is an Associate Professor in Dance Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. Her publications include The Aging Body in Dance (Routledge, 2017), Oi to Odori (Keiso Shobo Publisher, 2019). She is currently preparing for her monograph, Dance Dramaturgies of Aging: A Journey of Negotiating Identity Across Generations, Dance Cultures, and Embodied Histories in between Continents (Routledge, 2025). After she launched a bilingual website on dance dramaturgy (www.dancedramaturgy.org), she initiated Japan’s first dramaturgs’ meeting in 2024.
In response to the lack of texts on dance dramaturgy available in Japanese, dramaturg and scholar Nanako Nakajima launched the bilingual website www.dancedramaturgy.org . The following conversation is reprinted from...
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