Aki Iwamoto (b. 1992, Japan) is a contemporary dancer and performance artist based in Brussels.

After a nine-year practice in the martial arts Kendo and a prize-winning cheerleading experience, she continued a dance education in Tokyo. She graduated with a BA in dance education at the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education and a BA in contemporary dance at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp. While she was a student in Tokyo, she also took lessons from Takiko Iwabuchi and Saburo Teshigawara. During her studies in Antwerp, she performed works by, among others, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Guy Cassiers, Agostina D’Alessandro, Anton Lachky and Jos Baker. Her personal creations include a solo a = z and the group piece Human of Dummies.

She develops her practice through personal and collaborate creations. With Maud Le Pladec, she renders Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony into visible musical variations. With Chokri Ben Chikha, she revisited her past and put the migratory agenda with a political stunt on the stage of a world’s fair. With Michael Keegan-Dolan, she enacts an unstinting ritual, summoning Irish folk history into contemporary dance and music. The work with Michael Keegan-Dolan is portrayed in the 2021 documentary film The Dance from director Pat Collins.

Today she interviews her grandmother and explores stories from post-war Japan. Her project ‘Zenzai’ merges time and memory through movement, text, food and video.

Her work is supported by: