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BIO

Ain Tominaga is a Japanese dancer, choreographer, and creative producer based between Berlin and Japan. She began studying classical ballet at the age of six before continuing her education in France and Canada at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, Coastal City Ballet, Arts Umbrella Performance Research Project, and Ballet Edmonton, where she developed a practice combining classical ballet, contemporary dance, improvisation, and collaborative creation.

She has performed internationally with Flock Works (ANIMA by Alice Klock & Florian Lochner), DART Dance Company (The one AND lonely by Jiri Pokorny), Ballett Theater Nordhausen (DORNRÖSCHEN by Ivan Alboresi), Dance Base Yokohama (Night Shades by Jiri Pokorny), and KK ART PROJECT (Wanderers by Dimo Milev), as well as appearing in Maud Le Pladec's Synchronicité for the Paris 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Recent projects include Quarterlife: CREST at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium in Denmark, Li-Heng Kuo Wuu's Fifty,50 at Dance Company Osnabrück's choreoLAB, and Yoshito Sakuraba's Kaerazaru Mono.

Alongside her performance career, Ain has developed an active choreographic practice. Her works—including Boundary on G, Suibun, The Space Between Us, About M, and SAKURA SAKURA—have been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Radialsystem Open Studio Stage, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Le Chauffoir (France), and HenoTanz.

As the creative producer of AiN., she curates and produces interdisciplinary performance projects including HenoTanzand Piano × Dance Concert, while also serving as a founding member of the dance collective Ma. Her artistic practice centers on collaboration across disciplines and cultures, working with musicians, composers, visual artists, scenographers, filmmakers, and dancers to explore how performance can create shared physical and emotional experiences. Through both theatrical productions and site-specific performances, she investigates new ways of connecting artists, audiences, and space.

日本出身、ベルリンと日本を拠点に活動するダンサー、振付家、クリエイティブプロデューサー。
6歳よりクラシックバレエを始め、その後フランスとカナダに渡り、ストラスブール音楽院、Coastal City Ballet、Arts Umbrella Performance Research Project、Ballet Edmontonにて研鑽を積む。クラシックバレエを基盤に、コンテンポラリーダンス、即興、共同創作まで幅広い身体表現を培ってきた。
 

これまでに、Flock Works『ANIMA』(振付:Alice Klock & Florian Lochner)、DART Dance Company『The one AND lonely』(振付:Jiri Pokorny)、Ballett Theater Nordhausen『DORNRÖSCHEN』(振付:Ivan Alboresi)、Dance Base Yokohama『Night Shades』(振付:Jiri Pokorny)、KK ART PROJECT『Wanderers』(振付:Dimo Milev)など、国内外の作品に出演。2024年にはMaud Le Pladecによるパリ五輪開会式作品『Synchronicité』にも出演した。近年では、デンマークのNordisk Teaterlaboratoriumで上演された『Quarterlife: CREST』、Dance Company Osnabrück主催choreoLABにてLi-Heng Kuo Wuu振付のソロ作品『Fifty,50』、桜庭義人振付『帰らざる者』などに出演している。
 

ダンサーとして活動する一方、振付家としても積極的に作品制作を行っている。これまでに『Boundary on G』『Suibun』『The Space Between Us』『About M』『SAKURA SAKURA』などを発表し、Radialsystem Open Studio Stage、48 Stunden Neukölln、フランスのLe Chauffoirでの滞在制作、HenoTanzなど、国内外の劇場やフェスティバルで作品を発表してきた。
 

また、AiN.のクリエイティブプロデューサーとして、「HenoTanz」や「Piano × Dance Concert」など、ジャンルを横断する舞台芸術プロジェクトの企画・制作を手がけるほか、ダンスコレクティブ「Ma.」の立ち上げメンバーとしても活動している。異なる芸術分野や文化背景を越えた協働を創作活動の軸とし、音楽家、作曲家、美術家、映像作家、ダンサーなどとの共同制作を通して、パフォーマンスが身体的・感情的な体験を共有する場となる可能性を探求している。劇場作品からサイトスペシフィックな上演まで、多様な形式を通して、アーティスト、観客、空間の新たな関係性を模索している。

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

 
2024-present
Co-founder & Organizer,
AiN. (Berlin / Tokyo)

An independent collective dedicated to creating and producing interdisciplinary dance projects across Europe and Japan.


2024-present
Co-founder & Organizer,
HenoTanz (Berlin)

A site-specific performance series exploring the relationship between audience, space, and performers. Each edition

presents newly created works in intimate environments, encouraging direct exchange and shared experience.
 

2025-present
Co-founder & Organizer,
Ma.間。Dance collective (Berlin)

A Berlin-based dance collective exploring the concept of “in-between” (ma) through collaborative, cross-cultural, and

interdisciplinary performance practices.

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES|プロジェクト・企画活動
 

2024年–現在
共同設立者・企画運営|AiN.(ベルリン/東京)
ヨーロッパと日本を横断し、ダンスを軸とした分野横断的なプロジェクトの創作・企画・制作を行うインディペンデント・コレクティブ。
 

2024年–現在
共同設立者・企画運営|HenoTanz(ベルリン)
観客・空間・パフォーマーの関係性を探求するサイトスペシフィック・パフォーマンスシリーズ。各回で新作を発表し、親密な空間での上演を通して、観客との直接的な交流や体験の共有を生み出すことを目指している。
 

2025年–現在
共同設立者・企画運営|Ma. 間。Dance Collective(ベルリン)
日本語の「間(ま)」の概念を軸に、共同創作、異文化間の交流、分野横断的なパフォーマンス実践を通して、その「あいだ」に生まれる関係性や表現を探求するベルリン拠点のダンスコレクティブ。

Past Events

2024 HenoTanz Vol.1 “Suibun”, Berlin

2025 HenoTanz Vol.2 “Connect”, Berlin

2025 HenoTanz Vol.3 “(e)motion", Berlin

2025 HenoTanz in Tokyo, Tokyo

2025 Piano x Dance Concert, Tokyo

2026 Ma /ma/ Dance Collective, Theater Pool Berlin

2026 48 Stunden Neukölln x HenoTanz, Berlin

2026 F/F at 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin

2026 HenoTanz vol.4 “Co-existence”, Berlin


WS Performance
at Japanese International School Berlin (Berlin 2025)

Work Experience

Dancer - Freelance
2021-2023 in Japan, 2024- in Europe/Japan


 

Ma /ma/ : 2026

Aya Misaki - Mono no Aware
 

Oishida Air
New Year’s Special Performance
: 2026

Yoshito Sakuraba -Teijiro Suzuki Memories of light


Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony : 2024
Maud Le Place - Synchronicité

Flockworks : 2025
Alice Klock & Florian Lochner -Anima

BALLETT THEATER NORDHAUSEN : 2025
Ivan Alboresi - DORNRÖSCHEN

 

Quarterlife: DAWN, CREST : 2025-2026
Keisuke Sugawara

An international trilogy project developed and presented across Japan and

Denmark, exploring cross-cultural collaboration and continuing in 2026.


DART Dance Company : 2024
Jiri Pokorny - The one AND lonely

KK ART PROJECT : 2021-2023
Dimo Milev - Wanderers
Masa Kolar - La Sacre du Printemps
Yuka Oishi - MOIRAI
Kosuke Yamamoto - YUME

Dance Base Yokohama : 2021-2023
Jiri Pokorny - Night Shades

Autumn Productions : 2022,2023
Akiyoshi Nita - The Musical Offering

Taiwan NOW : 2021
Po-Cheng Tsai - FLOATING FLOWERS

Film Work : 2025
Naëmi Ada/Marie Bourgeois - BODY OF GLASS

Apprentice - Ballet Edmonton : 2020-2021
Paula Cobo Botello - Gracia Plena
Wen Wei Wang - Persistence of a Memory

Choreographer

Continuum
(2026)
Collaborate with Rakuho Murabayashi, Yuta Kumachi (Composer)
Performed at HenoTanz vol.4

Process through (2025)
Collaborate with Lindsay Ball
Performed at HenoTanz vol.3, Berlin, HenoTanz in Tokyo, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin

Gesture in Translation (2025)
Collaborate with Shira Shiryan
Performed at Open Studio Stage #14, HenoTanz vol.2, Emerging Voices at Delphi Theater, Dance film, Berlin


Boundary on G (2025)
SoloPerformed at 48 Stunden Neukölln

The Space Between Us (2025)
Collaborate with Lysie Loho
Residency at Le Chauffoir in Châteauroux, France, marameo in Berlin, Germany

Hum(an)idity (2024)
Collaborate with Rakuho Murabayashi
Performed at Open Studio Stage #5,
HenoTanz vol.1

About M (2023)
KK ART PROJECT

SAKURA SAKURA (2023)
KK ART PROJECT

The 6 Trajectories (2023)
KK ART PROJECT

JUMBLE (2022)
KK International Tokyo

Teacher

DART Studio Program (Berlin, Germany)
SCS Technique Intensive program (Berlin, Germany)
KK International Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
Rondo Ballet (Tokyo, Japan)
Ballet Studio Pure (Kanagawa, Japan)
Private classes (Japan/Online)

Education


DART Studio Berlin, Germany
2023-2024
Arts Umbrella, Canada
Performance Research Program

2019-2020
Coastal City Ballet, Canada
2018-2019
Conservatoire de Strasbourg,France
2017-2018
KK International Tokyo, Japan
2013-2017
curans, Japan
2009-2013
Sym’s BALLET, Japan
2005-2009

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