Marisa Hamamoto

Marisa Hamamoto is a performing artist, storyteller, and creative director working at the intersection of dance, film, fine art, and immersive cultural experience. Rooted in movement and embodied storytelling, her work reimagines how beauty, value, and the human body are perceived, placing disabled bodies at the center of artistic innovation. Drawing from lived experience as a spinal stroke survivor, late-diagnosed Autistic, and fourth-generation Japanese American, Hamamoto creates work that invites audiences into new ways of seeing, sensing, and understanding humanity. Hamamoto is the Founder, Chief Changemaker + Creative Director of Infinite Flow Dance, an award-winning, disability-led dance company and cultural platform with a mission to reimagine possibilities, one experience at a time. Infinite Flow's performances and films have reached over 100 million viewers worldwide. Her work has been featured on the Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America, NBC Today, PBS, and in Forbes, and she was the first professional dancer named People Magazine’s Women Changing the World. Marisa has been a speaker at the United Nations, has shared the stage with Tim Cook at Apple’s Steve Jobs Theater, and has worked with many global brands, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, adidas, Red Bull, amongst others. Her recent dance film Killed It was a finalist for Best Film at the 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Hamamoto holds a BA and MA from Keio University in Tokyo, is bilingual and bicultural, and is an Honorary Member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.

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