Nakajima Nanako

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Other affiliations (2)：

Kyoto University of the Arts
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 , 老いと障害 , Tradition , おどり

Research theme for competitive and other funds (13)：

2024 - 2025 ACTIVE AGING IN/THROUGH DANCE
2021 - 2024 The Genealogy on Dance Dramaturgy as Research Methods
2023 - 2024 Dramaturg Meeting
2023 - 2024 Work as Dance Dramaturg
2020 - 2023 アジアの舞台芸術創造における国際的な「ラボラトリー機能」の実践的研究

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Papers (22)：

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
Nanako Nakajima. The outside of Butoh is the inside of the body: Ko murobushi and the process of self-mummification. TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies. 2019. 63. 3. 74-93

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MISC (67)：

Nanako Nakajima. Book Review "Digital Archives of Japanese Gardens by Rurihiko Hara". REPRE Newsletter, Association for Studies of Culture and Representation. 2024
Nanako Nakajima. A History of Butô. By Bruce Baird. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 272. £81.00/$125.00 Hb; £25.99/$39.95 Pb. Theatre Research International. 2023. 48. 2. 220-221
Nanako Nakajima. Остаряващото тяло и танца. dancemag.eu. 2023. 5. 48-53
Nanako Nakajima. The Dance Dramaturgy of Aging. Open Laboratory Annual Report. 2023. 9. 3-4
Nanako Nakajima. Dancers' Memories, Archives' Memories. 2022 Lecture Series Documentation by Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts. 2023. 23-25

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Books (18)：

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
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
Encyclopedia of Culture in Germany
Maruzen Shuppan 2020

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Lectures and oral presentations (101)：

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)
Dance of Not/Freedom: The Dance Dramaturgy of Aging
(the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation 2023)
The First Nation and Tradition: the Dance Dramaturgy at the Banff Centre of Canada
(Online Lecture organised by DAAD Alumni Japan 2023)
Forever Postmodern Dance
(Kyoto Experiment 2022 2022)

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Works (10)：

Website Dance Dramaturgy
2021 - 現在
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
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer
Direction and Choreography Menfan Wang, Dramaturgy Nanako Nakajima 2019 -

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Professional career (1)：

Ph.D.

Committee career (15)：

2022/05 - 現在 Keir Choreographic Award (KCA) 2022, Australia Jury
2019/04 - 現在 The Interdisciplinary Research Center for Performing Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design Steering Committee Member
2019/04 - 現在京都造形芸術大学「舞台芸術の創造・受容のための領域横断的・実践的研究拠点」運営委員
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

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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) (9)：

Dramaturgische Gesellschaft (dg) , Comparative Theatre Section, Japanese Society for Theatre Research , Japanese Society for Dance Research , The Japanese Society for Aesthetics , International Federation for Theatre Research , 国際演劇学会 , Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas , 舞踊学会 , 西洋比較演劇研究会日本演劇学会

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