Hana Umeda

Hana Umeda is a performer, director, dancer, and Natori in the Jiutamai Hanasaki-ryu school. She graduated from the SoDA-MA programme at HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz) at the Berlin University of the Arts and holds a degree in Cultural Studies from the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. In 2020, she took the name Sada Hanasaki as a Jiutamai Hanasaki-ryu dancer. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a member of the collective The Centre in Motion.