Some programs are limited, so we recommend making reservations ahead of time.
Aokid will hold workshop program “Wanpaku-Work: Kids and Adults, Come Join the Park’s Playbox”!
Aokid, a dancer and artist, will hold a workshop that helps us relearn how to “play” by moving around the park
using our bodies and our minds.
As children, we must have learned many things as we spent time playing in different places. Adults and
children alike are invited to come join for warm-up exercises and experience touching the trees, soil, and
stones, as they look all around the park, making full use of their bodies and the park to create their own
form of "play = expression". Will it be a song, a dance, a painting, or a movie? From chapters one to three,
participants are free to join throughout the day or partially. We invite you to come play in nature, so
absorbed in it that you won't notice the evening coming.
Chapter 1: “Kitohito (Trees & People)” |13:00-14:15
Beginning with Aokid's preparatory exercises “Henteko Taiso (Silly Exercises)”, participants will be exposed
to nature in the park and familiarize their bodies with the environment.
Chapter 2: “Chizu, Bou, Ken (Maps, Sticks, Swords)”|14:30-15:45
Focusing on the characteristics of each location in the park, participants will create their own expressions
and movements, practicing “envisioning” by viewing wooden sticks as swords, and expanding the map of their
“playground”.
Chapter 3: “Ma, Ho (Ma-gic)”|16:00-17:30
Each expression created by the participants will be gathered together to create and present a single
performance.
*Chapters 1 through 3 are taken as a series of “play”. Participants may join for all chapters, or by single
chapters.
■Date: May 18 (Sun) 13:00-17:30 (Time by Chapter: ① 13:00-14:15 / ② 14:30-15:45 / ③ 16:00-17:30)
■Check-in Location: General Information
■Program Location: All over Hibiya Park
■Participants: Anyone can participate
■Capacity: 20 people per chapter (approx.)
■Duration: 75 minutes or more
■Reservation Required:
*Canceled in the event of rain.
Reservations
■Profile
Aokid was born in Tokyo in 1988, and started breakdancing at the age of 14. He spent his adolescence immersed
in dance and film. While studying film at Tokyo Zokei University, he began creating performing arts and art
works. He presented the solo dance piece “Earth Freedom!” (ST Spot, 2019) and held the solo exhibition “An
empty house for the arts” (nito, 2024).
6steps will hold “Place 6steps in Hibiya Park” workshop program!
“6steps” is a 6-step wooden staircase. We have been working with choreography and stage setting in various
places and spaces, spending time with all kinds of people through performances and non-performance-oriented
endeavors, exploring what it means to dance in society, and to be alone while still being with someone. Held
for the first time outdoors in this event, we will be quietly placing a 6-step staircase (6steps) in the grass
field of Hibiya Park. Anyone can participate for free and enter as they wish, so please come and climb up and
down the stairs as if you were taking a stroll.
“Place 6steps in Hibiya Park”
In the grassy plaza of Hibiya Park, we will quietly place “6steps (6-step staircase)” that lead nowhere. On
the day of the program, we will climb up and down the steps, take in the view, chat, and spend some time
there. Afterwards, we will remove the “6steps” and gather again to spend time in the space where the steps
used to be. The project representative Reina Kimura and team members are waiting for you in Hibiya Park.
■Dates:
May 18 (Sun) 14:00
May 22 (Thu) 14:00
May 24 (Sat) 14:00
■Program Location: Grass Field
■Participants: Anyone can participate
■Duration: 120 minutes (approx.)
*Reservations not required, participants may come and go
*Canceled in the event of rain.
■Profile
6steps
“6steps” is a dance project that makes use of a 6-step wooden staircase and can be experienced through one’s
sense of sight and touch. Choreographer and dancer Reina Kimura is the project’s representative, and is
working with dancers, web engineers, observers, visual artists, and stage producers to explore the function of
a platform that connects performing arts and society. Kimura choreographs and directs performances, invites
artists to direct performances, and from 2023 will start a project that places 6steps (6-step staircases) in
various places and spaces, where she interacts with visitors. While opening up places, time, and choreography
from multiple angles, she is searching for dance that involves various bodies.
Reina Kimura / Choreographer, Dancer
Reina Kimura is the founder and representative of 6steps. She is involved in concepts, choreography, and
occasional performances, and is interested in the relationship between climate, language, and the body, as
well as the way people live and exist. She has created and performed in various locations in Japan and abroad
while exploring the question, “For whom does dance exist?” In recent years, she has also worked as a
researcher and facilitator for dance projects, working with the bodies and minds of people of all ages. She is
a Saison Fellow II as of 2025.
Masashi Nukata will hold “Telephone Game” workshop program!
“Telephone Game” workshop program will be held by Masashi Nukata, who leads the contemporary pop band Tokyo
Shio Kouji and the theater company NUTHMIQUE. He is active not only in music composition but also in the field
of performing arts, as he bases his activities on the question, “What is performance?” Everyone from children
to adults are are free to join us in this program.
“Telephone Game”
There are many sounds in the park. Footsteps in leather shoes, birds singing, water dripping from a
fountain...are just some of the sounds that surround us. Participants themselves will translate these sounds
into words, and other participants will use these words to find them in the park. Even if the sounds you hear
are the same, the way you describe them in words and the way you feel them may differ from person to person.
You will listen carefully to the sounds, put them into words in your own way, and experience the difficulty
and fun of communicating them to someone else.
■Date: May 23 (Fri) 15:00 / May 25 (Sun) 11:00
■Check-in Location: General Information
■Program Location:Green Field Area (tentative)
■Participants: Anyone is welcome to participate
■Capacity: 12 people (approx.)
■Duration: 80 minutes (approx.)
*Priority is given to those who make reservations in advance.
*Canceled in the event of rain.
Reservations
■Profile
Masashi Nukata was born in Tokyo in 1992, and leads the contemporary pop band Tokyo Shio Kouji and the theater
company NUTHMIQUE. He is active not only in music composition but also in the field of performing arts, as he
bases his activities on the question, “What is a performance?” He continues to work across the fields of music
and theater, having performed with his band at the FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL and having his play "Bonyari Blues"
nominated for the 66th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.
Yuuki Hasegawa will hold workshop program “Migratory Workshop Integrating Nature and Theater - Exploring
Memory and Theater by Walking Around”!
A migratory workshop integrating nature and theater titled “Exploring Memory and Theater by Walking Around”
will be held by Yuuki Hasegawa. This is an experiential workshop in which participants create their own short
theater piece about their memories of the park and present resulting pieces to each other. No previous acting
experience is required.
“Migratory Workshop Integrating Nature and Theater - Exploring Memory and Theater by Walking Around”
This is an experiential workshop in which participants themselves create and perform a short theatrical piece
based on their own memories of the park, using Hibiya Park as a stage. Participants will create a performance
of 10 minutes or less at their favorite spots in the park, and at the end of the workshop, a promenade
performance will be held in which participants and the audience tour around the park to view all teams'
pieces. We invite participants to enjoy this theatrical experience integrated with nature as the audience
themselves move through the landscape and enter the world of their stories.
■Date: May 25 (Sun) 14:00
■Check-in Location: General Information
■Program Location: Cloud-Shaped Pond - Grass Field - Mikasa Hill Areas (tentative)
■Participants: Over middle-school age, no acting experience required
■Capacity: 20 people (approx.)
■Duration: 3 hours (approx.)
*Priority is given to those who make reservations in advance.
*Canceled in the event of rain.
Reservations
■Profile
Yuuki Hasegawa is a playwright, director, and comedian born June 16, 1982 in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
He debuted in 2002 as a member of the comedy duo “Cleopatra”, and in 2017 launched “Ennui”, a union/place
where people can get together for the purpose of creation. While working as a comedian, he is currently
engaged in creating expressions across various genres, mainly in theater.