sawako ogo | disasterchaotic
dance | choreography | movement instruction | sound design
about
Sawako Ogo is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, Germany, originally from Tokyo, Japan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance from San Francisco State University and has performed the works of various choreographers including Christian Burns, Lenora Lee, Joe Landini, Natasha Adorlee, and Erin Chi-Fang Yen. In 2022, Sawako was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for outstanding individual performance in San Francisco, California.Sawako Ogo empowers dance with freedom and curiosity in dance improvisation. She has presented her fully improvisational works at venues, festivals, and institutions including The Finnish Hall (Berkeley, CA), Lenora Lee Dance (San Francisco, CA), the Texas Improvisation Dance Festival (San Marcos, TX), and Bande á Part (Berlin, DE). Her choreographic works have been commissioned and presented by notable institutions such as Lenora Lee Dance, West Wave Dance Festival, and RAWDance in San Francisco.
original works
power/trip (2025)
Schwere Reiter, MunichDOROTHY (2024)
Bande a part, BerlinFLABBERGASTED (2023,2024)
Bande a part Berlin, Kulturhaus Dock 4 KasselFLY ME TO THE MOON (2022, 2023)
SAFEHouse Arts San Francisco, p7 Gallery BerlinGOODBYE FOREVER (2022)
Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, TexasLORENZ (2022)
Joe Goode Annex, San FranciscoDisaster Chaotic (2022)
The Finnish Hall, Berkeley, CABibo no Aozora (2022)
Concept Series 28, The Green Room
San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts CenterSupported by: tanz*werk kassel, RAWDance, Lenora Lee Dance, Performance Primers, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, West Wave Dance Festival, tanztendenz e.V, Hier=Jetzt residency
improvisation
Improvisation empowers movement. Improvisation claims its own space in contemporary dance and is independent.
Practice of being intentional and making statements through movement practice.
film
music video
upcoming
performances + workshops
11.9.2025 LAVENDER.DOLL.
@Umspannwerk Reinickendorf, Berlin
21.9.2025 15-18h MOVEMENT LAB (movement workshop for all)
3-7€
@Fregestraße 53, 12161 Berlin
26-27.9.2025 DESTINY|FATE|BLOOD
@ACUD Theater, Berlin
14.12.2025 power/trip
@Neue Bühne Friedrichshein, Berlin
sound design
sawako is drawn to the noise of symbolic objects, activities and the sound of city as a creature. combining her
rigorous classical training in piano performance, composition and improvisation and curiosity for the noise in electronic context, she shapes soundscape and driving beats that enhances the movement. She composes for her original disasterchaotic works as well as for others.
Contact
Archive
20254.5.2025 18h power/trip (residency at Tanztendenz e.V) @Schwere Reiter, Munich19 & 26.3.2025 14:45h-16h Contemporary FolkTrance | Open Level @Dock11202416.3, 28.10, 17.11, 25.11, 1.12.2024 WORKSHOP: MOVEMENT LAB FOR ALL @Nachberschaftsheim Schöneberg21-22.6.2024 The Unit And The Pitfall by Holger Seidelin @Uferstudio, Berlin21.4.2024 FLABBERGASTED (original work) @Kulturhaus Dock4, Kassel27.2.2024 DOROTHY (original work) @bande á Part, Berlin (Double bill with Karlotta Frank)23.2. 2024 PLAY BOW by Samantha Giron @English Theater, Berlin202327-29, 12 2023 and 5-7,12-14.1 FUCHSBAU by Post Theater @TD Berlin, Berlin3.10.2023 FLABBERGASTED (original work) @bande á Part, Berlin
17.6.2023 Material Girl (original work) @Karneval für die Zukunft, Berlin16.6.2023 FLY ME TO THE MOON (original work) @p7Gallery, Berlin
23.2.2023 kickin' way to die (original work) @Cafe Nullpunkt, Berlin#20225.11.2022 FLY ME TO THE MOON, @SAFEHouse Arts, San Francisco21-23.10 2022 VITALES, A Pulso Dance Project @ Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco8.10. 2022 GOODBYE FOREVER (original work) @Texas State University, Texas24.9. 2022 Intentional Shift, Kristin Damrow & Company @ Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco1-4, 8-11.9.2022 In The Movement, Lenora Lee Dance @ODC Theater, San Francisco4.8.2022 WORK004 summer intensive with Kristin Damrow & Company at Joe Goode Annex, a workshop taught by Sawako23.7. 2022 PHASE, FACT/SF @Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco18.6.2022 Performance Primer- "Disaster Chaotic" (original work) @The Finnish Hall, Berkeley3-4.6.2022 FRAMEWORK, Kristin Damrow & Company @The Lab, San Francisco6.6.2022 Paper Trails, Dragons Dance @ODC Theater, San FranciscoMay 14th, 2022 RAW showcase @SAFEHouse Art, San Francisco7-10.4. 2022 VANTAGE, ZiRu Dance @ODC Theater, San Francisco31.3-2.4.2022 The Tip of My Tongue, David Herrera Performance Company @Z Space, San Francisco26-27.3. 2022 Bibo no Aozora (original work) RAWDance presents: the Concept Series 28 @The Green Room, SF War Memorial & Performing Arts Center18-20. 3.2022 City of Ghosts, Joe Landini Dance @ODC Theater, San Francisco
Photo: Christopher Sturm, Yann Delphin, @buehnenlicht, Yann Delphin, Tsering Norbu, Hiroko Tanahashi, Yasmina Mattison, @buehnenlicht