[主な作品]
2013年11月 シアターバビロン
日英交流400年記念事業「ネアンデルタール の森に雨は降っている」(劇団阿彌、ラナースグループ(イギリス)合同公演) 大和日英基金助成/wales arts international協力
2017年5月 シアターバビロン
「阿彌南陀無 aminadabu」(阿彌)観世流シテ方能楽師、鵜澤久、主演
2020年3月 アトリエ第Q藝術
「黒い鳥 ーcity of birdー」(台本、演出、出演)
2020年12月 アートスペース溝の口
「風の祝祭」(台本、演出、出演)
2022年11月 エコてん廃墟スタジオ
「太陽と水晶」(台本、演出、出演)
2023年8月 C aurora (エディンバラ、イギリス)
「SUN AND CRYSTAL」
2024年2月 The Garage International (アデレード、オーストラリア)
「SUN AND CRYSTAL」
2024年7月 The Garage International (アヴィニヨン、フランス)
「Le Soleil et le Crystal」
2025年7月 The Garage International (アヴィニヨン、フランス)
「L'Odyssée de l'Est 」
Kazuko Shimazu
Playwright / Director / Actress
Auteur Performer
Founder & Artistic Director of SEIGAI
Kazuko Shimazu is a bilingual (Japanese–English) auteur performer who writes, directs, and performs her own works—an artist working across the full spectrum of theatrical creation. Based in Tokyo and active internationally in France, the UK, Australia, and beyond, she has developed a distinctive theatrical world rooted in poetic language and precise visual dramaturgy.
Her works have been described by international media as “Strong” and “Powerful,” praised for their rigorous integration of body, language, and imagery.
Australia’s arts magazine GLAM ADELAIDE highlighted her work as
“The Divine Power of Silence and Imagination,”
noting the immersive quality created through the fusion of mythic structures and embodied performance.
Drawing on the physical vocabulary of Noh theatre, she bridges tradition and contemporaneity as a female creator. Her recurring themes—renewal, transformation, and timeless storytelling—are explored at major international festivals. Engaging with embodied memory, the narratives of land, and Indigenous knowledge, she continues to create works that move between Japan and Europe.
Her latest work, Odyssey from the East, premiered at the 2025 Avignon Festival. Inspired by Ainu cosmology and set in a post-collapse world, the piece examines the human will to live. Critics and audiences responded to its evocative blend of the personal and the universal, calling it “prayer-like” and “beyond words.”
As an Auteur Performer, Shimazu unifies writing, directing, and physical performance to lead the entire theatrical space, presenting a new model of contemporary artist. Her work continues to expand the possibilities of intercultural theatre and to craft stories that resonate across time and borders.
Artistic Vision
Kazuko Shimazu is currently developing a trilogy inspired by classical storytelling from around the world.
She plans to tour Japan with The Tales of Konjaku, continue to China with Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai Zhiyi), and journey to the Arab world with One Thousand and One Nights.
Through this creative journey, she explores how ancient stories still resonate with the present — and with the dreams of our future.
As main works in which she played,
there are
“A Blue Cleanser Box: From the Siberian Sky” “A Cry from the Wilderness” “The Boy:the Record of a Schizophrenic’s Soul” “A Quiet Decline” “Rains in Neandertal Forest”(Four Hundredth Anniversary of Japan-British Relations /granted The Daita Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Wales arts international ) “aminadabu”(Kanze noh actress, Hisa Uzawa played the leading role)
“City Of Birds”(as a play wright, a director, and an actress ) “The Festival Of The Wind”(as a play wright, a director, and an actress) “The Sun And The Crystal”(as a play wright, a director, and an actress)

吉村広野
アートグループ青涯主宰・俳優・舞踏家・プロデューサー。
独自の「からだとことば」のレッスンで知られる竹内敏晴演劇研究所から派生した劇団阿彌に11年在籍後、2011年舞踏家に転身(北斗座所属)。2015年より能を粟谷明生(能楽師・重要無形文化財総合認定保持者)に師事。
2019年アートグループ青涯結成以降、能と舞踏の手法を織り交ぜ、独特の身体技法で人類共通の無意識世界を体現、影・霊・鳥など人ではない役を1作品の中で複数演じ分ける。
[主な出演作品]
俳優 劇団阿彌「荒野より呼ぶ声ありて」2008
「アミナダブ」2009
「青いクレンザーの函」2010 他
舞踏家 北辰の会「古事記その一夢日死花菜詩」2012
「死者の書ー海底の歌」2012 他
2020年3月
「黒い鳥 ーcity of birdー」(振付、出演)
2020年12月
「風の祝祭」(出演)
2022年11月
「太陽と水晶」(出演)
2023年8月 C aurora (エディンバラ、イギリス)
「SUN AND CRYSTAL」
2024年2月 The Garage International (アデレード、オーストラリア)
「SUN AND CRYSTAL」
2024年7月 The Garage International (アヴィニヨン、フランス)
「Le Soleil et le Crystal」
Hirono Yoshimura
actress/butoh dancer/president of SEIGAI
Having performed as an actress of AMI theater(founded by Yojiro Okamura)for 11 years, she faced the disaster of earthquake 11.3.2011 in Japan.
This leads to her dancing butoh and she joined Hokuto-za butoh dance group.
Trained by Akio Awaya(Kita noh master) since 2015.