Continuing our relationship with artists Megumi Eda and Reiko Yamada, CRS is delighted to support the development of their newest work, YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor. The premiere was presented by Dock 11 in Berlin on June 4, 2026, and ran for three nights.
Where is your “safe place”? This work explores the Japanese concept of kokoro no yoridokoro—a place of grounding or return—through the relationship between body, space, and sound, asking what it means to exist.
“For me, it is a place where I can be as I am, without holding anything back. YORIDOKORO – Silent Anchor emerges from a paradox I have felt throughout my career: that the moment I am performing on stage may also be when I feel most myself—perhaps when I am least performing.” — Megumi Eda
Following her previous work fish ái Lens, created in collaboration with Shintaro Oue, this piece becomes her second autobiographical work. Here, she turns toward experiences she has long resisted speaking about—sensations and memories that have remained unspoken.
She and composer and sound artist Reiko Yamada use volleyball to explore how space, distance, stillness, and the experience of being observed shape emotional and physical states within an environment shared by performer and audience. Reiko is a semi-professional volleyball player, while Megumi has been terrible at volleyball since childhood. The activity of volleyball allows them to explore kinetically what it’s like to struggle and fail, to be awkward and feel self-conscious and let go of judging oneself, to simply be.