SEKITA IKUKO "under take"

Established in 2019 as theatrical unit SEKITA IKUKO.
The unit advocates what it calls “theater through a wide-angle lens”in which the actors’ bodies and the walls and floor of the theater have equal value for the audience, creating theatrical works as the practice of this philosophy. Proposed a new concept, “Vibes Theatre,” in October 2025.
In 2023, “micro wave” won both the Grand Prize and Audience Award at the Kanagawa Short Drama Award 2023.

What is “Vibes Theatre”?

Everything that exists around us is composed of invisible “vibrations.”

In modern physics, ‘Superstring Theory’ explains that these “vibrations” determine the very nature of all substances.

For example, an actor's body exists on stage as a single “vibration.” The actor's performance amplifies or dampens this “vibration”, spreading it throughout the entire theatre. This wave also interacts with the subtle “vibrations” latent within the audience who share the same space.

As the audience experiences what is happening on stage through this sensation,  there comes a moment when they begin to ‘understand’ the events unfolding in front of them. At this instant, the “vibrations” of the sender and the receiver align.

By reframing events through this “vibration”, a new way of understanding the world may emerge.

Even if one cannot distinctly feel their own “vibration”, being in a theatrical space with the others allows one to encounter the “vibrations” of those around them.
The experience of riding the wave of theatre —or choosing not to ride it— amidst the disorderly spread of vibrations within the space is what we call “Vibes Theatre.”