Saori Hala
Photo: Kikuko Usuyama
Saori Hala
Dancer, choreographer, and visual artist Saori Hala is based in multiple cities including Tokyo, Yokohama, and Berlin. She creates performances and choreographed works exploring space, the body, and physical attributes. Da Dad Dada is a self-documentary performance about her father who was also a dancer and about her separation from him in life as well as in death. It was performed in Japan and Germany, and restaged in 2021 at Japan’s largest dance festival, Dance New Air. In 2020, she won the 9th El Sur Foundation New Talent Award for Contemporary Dance. Hala has master’s degrees in design from Tokyo University of the Arts, and in solo dance performance from Berlin University of the Arts. She is currently a Dance Base Yokohama Resident Artist. (Updated May 2024)
