Ayaka Nakama

Ayaka Nakama (1992, Oita Prefecture, Japan) is a dancer based in Kobe, Japan. After training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance (London) she took part as a scholarship student in a dance study program in Kobe organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and NPO Dance Box. She has worked with Mika Kurosawa, Reina Kimura, contact Gonzo and Toshiki Okada (chelfitsch) among others. Her work Freeway Dance (2019), which premiered at Dance Box, has been presented at Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2020 (TPAM 2020), Kyoto Experiment 2021 Spring, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (2021) and Center Pompidou (2021) among others. From 2018 to 2020 she was an associate artist at Dance Box. In 2022, she won the 16th Kobe Nagata Culture Encouragement Prize, 2022 the Saison Foundation Award (Tokyo, Japan).