Nakajima Nanako

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Other affiliations (1)：

The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences

Homepage URL (2)： http://www.nanakonakajima.com/ , http://www.nanakonakajima.com

Research field (4)： Aesthetic practices , Aesthetics and art studies , Aesthetic practices , Aesthetics and art studies

Research keywords (12)： Theater , Dance , 舞踊学 , 演劇学 , Postmodern , ポストモダンダンス , Critical Theory , 文化批評理論 , Aging , 老いと障がい , Tradition , おどり

Research theme for competitive and other funds (15)：

2025 - 2026 Movement Dramaturgy
2024 - 2025 ACTIVE AGING IN/THROUGH DANCE
2024 - 2025 国内外におけるダンスドラマトゥルギー研究の理論的実践的継承
2021 - 2024 The Genealogy on Dance Dramaturgy as Research Methods
2023 - 2024 Dramaturg Meeting

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Papers (23)：

Nanako Nakajima. Waking Up the Aging Body in Dance. Studies of Media Body and Image. 2025. 15. 25-46
Nanako Nakajima. Archiving Dance and Digital Archive. 2023. 7. 1. 18-23
Nanako Nakajima. Democratising Tradition: Thai choreographer Pichet Klunchun’s fresh take on khon dance. Magazin im August. 2022. 36-38
Nanako Nakajima(Translation by Kyle Yamada). The Outside of Butoh, the Inside of the Body: Ko Murobushi and Self-Mummification. Performing Arts. 2022. 25. 151-167
Gabriele Brandstetter, Nanako Nakajima. Dance as a Gift Facilitating matchmaking without meeting each other. PERFORMANCE RESEARCH. 2020. 25. 6-7. 221-232

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MISC (78)：

Nanako Nakajima. Introducing Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. News Letter, Japanese Society for Dance Research. 2025. 23. 10-12
Nanako Nakajima, Gabriele Brandstetter. Stolen Article: Nanako Nakajima in Conversation with Gabriele Brandstetter. Movement Research Performance Journal. 2025. Issue #61 Dramaturgy. Summer. 56-61
Nanako Nakajima. The Keyword Aging. TQW Paper Volume Theory. 2025
羅妙蘭(ロー, ミウラン)博士, 翻訳, 辻井美穂. レポート『パフォーマンス創作におけるクリエイティブな実践、プロセス、リサーチに関する京都開催のドラマトゥルク・ミーティング』. 京都芸術劇場春秋座 studio21 企画・運営京都芸術大学舞台芸術研究センター. 2025
Miu Lan LAW. The Dramaturgs’ Meeting on Creative Practice, Process and Research in Performance Making in Kyoto, Japan. Dance Dramaturgy Text Collection. 2025

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Books (20)：

Slow technology Reader
Valiz, books and projects 2025 ISBN:9789493246461
Dance Dramaturgies of Aging: A Journey of Negotiating Identity Across Generations, Dance Cultures, and Embodied Histories in between Continents (under contract)
Routledge 2025
The Routledge Companion on Performance-related Concepts in Non-European Languages
Routledge 2024 ISBN:9780367696702
Networked Bodies: The Culture and Ecosystem of Contemporary Performance
Taipei Performing Arts Center 2022 ISBN:9786267144480
Dramaturgies of Interweaving Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World
Routledge 2021 ISBN:9781032034232

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Lectures and oral presentations (104)：

Dance Performance Returns
(2025)
Keynote Lecture Dance Dramaturgies of Aging: Embracing the Geriatric “Trio A” in Noh Theater
(XIII Graduate Conference, Echoes of Age: Relational Dynamics in an Intergenerational World 2025)
The Archive and the Repertoire of Dance: The Dance Dramaturgy of Ageing in the Dance Archive Box
(The Public Program, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore 2024)
Dance Dramaturgies of Aging in East Asian and Euro-American Contexts
(2023)
Introducing Dance Dramaturgies of Aging A Journey of Negotiating Identity Across Generations, Dance Cultures, and Embodied Histories in between Continents
(Workshop "Comparative Dramaturgy: Methods and Challenges", 2023 2023)

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Works (11)：

Website Dance Dramaturgy
2021 - 現在
Nanako Nakajima Exhibition
Nanako Nakajima 2025 - 2025
Public Showing "Encountering Histories"
Nanako Nakajima 2022 -
Noh to Trio A
Nanako Nakajima, Misako Terada, Koji Takabayashi 2021 -
Dance Archive Box Berlin
Last Presentation of, Valeska Gert Visiting Professor, Free University Berlin, Nanako Nakajima 2020 - 2020

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Professional career (1)：

Ph.D.

Committee career (17)：

2025/04 - 現在 Japanese Society for Dance Research Newsletter Committee Member
2025/04 - 現在 Japanese Society for Dance Research Board Member
2016 - 現在 Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Performing Arts Festival External Evaluation Committee
2016 - 現在公益財団法人東京都歴史文化財団都民芸術フェスティバル助成対象事業外部専門家評価
2019/04 - 2025/03 The Interdisciplinary Research Center for Performing Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design Steering Committee Member

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Awards (1)：

2017/06 - Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Special Commendation, 2017 Elliott Hayes Award

Association Membership(s) (5)：

Japanese Society for Dance Research , International Federation for Theatre Research , 国際演劇学会 , Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas , 舞踊学会

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