What happens when personal memory intersects with historical memory? How do our bodies bear the weight of stories we never experienced, yet feel so deeply?

How You Look at It / Re-Framing 8:15 is a work-in-progress, presented as a two-day dialogue in motion. Dancer and interdisciplinary artist Megumi Eda returns to her groundbreaking work 8:15, originally created over 20 years ago in response to the bombing of Hiroshima and the Iraq War. This isn’t a retelling of that history, however, but a reshaping of it, a new perspective on how memory, trauma, and war continue to shape both personal and collective consciousness.

Each evening features a different duo, offering a different perspective on how history imprints itself on the body. First, in a duet with Marek Gluziński, Megumi Eda explores the impact of historical events on the male body and psyche. The following evening, in a duet with Monika Wachowicz, the Japanese performer reflects on the experiences of women and the burden of inherited trauma.

Using archival video footage, spoken word, and movement, Megumi weaves the past and present, asking, “What changes when we look at history from a different perspective?”

Set in an intimate and immersive space, this evolving work is part of a larger project leading up to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II—an ongoing exploration of how the echoes of war continue to shape the contemporary world.