Uehara Isamu
Performer: AOI YAMADA Music: RYUICHI ONO Costumes: KODUE HIBINO Fashion, Sound and Body Project ROOT
Performance
Information
10/31(Sat) 18:50 - 19:25
Roppongi Hills Arena
Free
Detail
Clothing invites sound, sound moves the body, and the body alters the expression of the clothing. The Fuku-Oto-Karada Project is a boundary-less performance where these three elements give direction to one another. Performing artist Yamada dances while repeatedly shedding layers of clothing, transforming into a succession of different creatures. From a giant frog in the forest—and a red body born of that frog—emerge a head with five ears, a torso covered in black warts, body hair made of pink circles, hips that fan out radially, a rear end with five tails, and patterned skin. Finally, the figure becomes human; roots sprout from the body, and it returns to the forest soil. Set to the music of Ryuichi Ono, this work invites reflection on the flow of life.
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Artist
AOI YAMADA (Performer) | RYUICHI ONO (Music) | KODUE HIBINO (Costumes)
Yamada Aoi (Performance Artist)
Guided by a belief in the connections between body and memory, food and people, and music and the human spirit, Yamada integrates her unique sensibilities with everyday life through music production and performance art. Her work includes appearances at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Closing Ceremony and the closing ceremony of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. She has also appeared in the films Perfect Days and Enjo (Conflagration), as well as the music video for Sakanaction’s Iranai. Her creative practice—spanning both physical movement and voice—includes narrating for the NHK documentary series Document 72 Hours. She is a member of the performance units Aoi-Tsuki (a dance-and-storytelling duo) and Tokyo QQQ, and has released a photo book entitled EBIZAZEN.
Ono Ryuichi (Musician)
After graduating from the Department of Composition at Tokyo University of the Arts and completing his postgraduate studies there, Ono has focused his creative practice on the variations in the relationship between sound and people. Working primarily through music, he engages in interdisciplinary projects that span the fields of fine art and performance. His diverse body of work includes composing music for the NHK E-Tele program Nihongo de Asobo (Let’s Play with Japanese). Recent contributions to exhibitions and performances include the Oku-Noto International Art Festival 2023 (Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture), Yuken Teruya’s The Magic Flute (Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHArt, 2025), Don’t Be Silent, Move, Breathe (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 2025), and Are You ALICE? (Strange Seed Shizuoka 2026).
Hibino Kozue
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Hibino is a graduate of the Department of Design at Tokyo University of the Arts. As a costume artist, she works across a wide range of fields, including advertising, theater, dance, ballet, film, and television. Her accolades include the Newcomer Award at the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix, the Shiseido Encouragement Award, and an individual prize at the Kinokuniya Theater Awards. She has held numerous exhibitions and is currently responsible for the set and costume design for the NHK E-Tele program Nihongo de Asobo (Let’s Play with Japanese). Responsible for costume design for productions including the Kabuki play Noda-ban: Togitatsu no Utare, the contemporary play Fakespeare (written and directed by Noda Hideki), and the dance piece The Little Prince (choreographed by Moriyama Kaiji). She is engaged in a variety of projects—such as the dance performances WONDER WATER, The Ant and the Grasshopper, MAMMOTH, Two Alices, Come and Go, ROOT, Rinne, and Are You ALICE?—that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, from children to adults. Has participated in the Oku-Noto Triennale, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, and the Setouchi Triennale. She is currently working on a dance project launched to support Suzu City in the wake of the Noto Peninsula earthquake.
