Where is your ‘safe place’? This work explores the Japanese concept of kokoro no yoridokoro – a place of respite or return – through the relationship between body, space and sound, and asks what it means to exist. For me, it is a place where I can be myself, without holding anything back.

YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor arises from a paradox I have experienced throughout my artistic career: that the moment I am performing on stage can also be the moment when I feel most like myself—perhaps when I am performing the least.

Following my autobiographical work fish ái Lens, created in collaboration with Shintaro Oue, this piece turns its attention to what I did not want to speak of—unspoken feelings and memories.

Together with composer and sound artist Reiko Yamada, I explore how space, distance, silence and the act of being observed shape emotional and physical states—within a shared space between performer and audience.

Ultimately, the work leads to a question: Where is my true safe place?

Concept | Performance Megumi Eda
Composer | Sound artist Reiko Yamada
Lighting: Daniel Miranda