Nami Yamamoto

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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, which was presented at Roulette in 2017. Her work has been funded by Creative Capital, Jim Henson Foundation, Creative Engagement by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Artist Corps, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and others. She has been nurtured and inspired by her residency experience at Movement Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New Dance Alliance, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Gibney DiP Resident Artist, CPR-Center for Performance Research and most recently Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Currently, she is a faculty member at Lehman College and teaches dance at New York City Public Schools through Together in Dance and Dance Makers at Movement Research. She serves as a core council of Artists of Color Council at Movement Research.

Through the Hodder Fellowship, she will be researching what her mother and her generation experienced during World War II. She will gather historical information and collect personal stories especially about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria between 1931-1945 while consistently practicing, improvising and exploring movement that speaks to her in the studio.

This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated.

Watch Nami Yamamoto in the studio