Born in Tokyo and raised in Singapore, Nana Sawada is a performance artist based in Berlin. Holding a BFA in Theater Arts from Osaka University of Arts, her practice emerges from training across diverse movement disciplines.

Nana’s dance vocabulary is grounded in contemporary dance, shaped through training with Tomoko Sato, and further enriched by House dance practice under Yuko Kurita. Upon relocating to Berlin, she has been expanding her practice into new forms and media.

Her choreographic language weaves together somatic research, improvisation, and visual storytelling. Recent research explores the shifting nature of identity and social perception through migration, examining how her experience as an Asian woman living in Berlin reframes earlier questions rooted in her time in Japan and Singapore. Taboos and norms once internalized are challenged, revealing new layers of cultural differences and class perception.

Nana is also the founder of ATROA, a Tokyo-based dance collective that fosters collaborative creation and community engagements.

Recent works include Body Language (2024) and the solo performance Caught in Bright Blue Light (2024).