Born in Tokyo and raised in Singapore, Nana Sawada is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends dance and floristry. Holding a BFA in Theater Arts from Osaka University of Arts, her practice emerges from training across diverse movement disciplines.

Nana’s movement vocabulary is grounded in contemporary dance shaped through training with Tomoko Sato, and further enriched by house dance practice under Yuko Kurita. After relocating to Berlin, she discovered a career path in floristry, which expanded and deepened her artistic language.

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).