Nami Yamamoto, from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Nami is a Bessie awardee (The New York Dance and Performance Award) for the outstanding production of Headless Wolf presented at Roulette in 2017.
Nami served as a core member of Artists of Color Council at Movement Research in 2020-2023.
She is honored to be a Hodder Fellow at Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in 2024-2025 and USA Fellowship in 2025. She is also grateful to be TOPAZ ARTS’ APPI Dance Artists in Residence 2025-26.
Nami Yamamoto’s Future Memory began with a conversation with a childhood friend about their aging mothers. Witnessing this fragility showed a reflection of their own futures and compelled Yamamoto to confront time—how the past, present, and future must be held, lived, and relived in our bodies. Through improvisational practices such as “body memoirs” and “future memories,” the dancers transform their bodies into vessels of soulful movement. The project continues to evolve as an embodied reflection on how memory, dream, hope, tragedy, and loneliness move, collide, and erode through time and the body.
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Maho Ogawa, photo by Elyse Mertz
“I am honored to have performed at the Performance Mix 37…PMF plays a very inspiring, influential, and unique role in redefining the role of theater and performance art in society. I hope we continue to think about how this festival means so much not only for dance fans/ students, but for art lovers and the general public.”
– Maho Ogawa
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