Kabuki Club is a platform dedicated to opening the world of Japanese Kabuki theatre to contemporary audiences.
Through performances, exhibitions, film screenings, and workshops, we create immersive encounters that draw on Kabuki’s traditions, rituals, and aesthetics while opening them up to new perspectives.
Our projects have been staged at historic venues and art festivals including the Royal Over-Seas House, Ladbroke Hall, The Garden Cinema, Ryedale Festival, and the Royal Northern College of Music. From intimate salons to large-scale collaborations, Kabuki Club builds cross-cultural bridges — bringing Kabuki’s movement, music, and theatricality into conversation with poetry, opera, film, and visual art. In these exchanges, Kabuki becomes a source of inspiration that sparks creativity and opens unexpected pathways for artists and audiences today.
On the Hanamichi was founded in 2023 by actor and theatre producer Suleiman Suleiman.
It is a multidisciplinary platform exploring Kabuki theatre through live performance, exhibitions, film, talks, workshops, and writing.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity about Japanese art and culture by immersing audiences in the aesthetics, history, and rituals of Kabuki.
We aim to cultivate a sense of shared discovery — creating a space where artists, thinkers, and audiences can engage with this 400-year-old tradition in a playful and enriching way.
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Kabuki Club is directed by Suleiman Suleiman, an actor, dancer and producer whose work distils Kabuki with the worlds of ballet, opera and physical theatre.
The son of a Kenyan limbo dancer and acrobat, Suleiman grew up immersed in performance, shaping a distinctive physical presence that underpins his cross-disciplinary practice. His training in London and Salzburg led to collaborations with Europe’s leading opera houses and ballet companies, while regular travels to Japan and encounters with Kabuki and Noh practitioners have deepened his connection to Japanese theatre.
Described by The Guardian as “a display of daring artistic imagination,” Suleiman’s productions bring together East and West, tradition and innovation — creating work that is immersive, poetic and alive to the present moment.
On the Hanamichi was founded in 2023 by actor and theatre producer Suleiman Suleiman.
It is a multidisciplinary platform exploring Kabuki theatre through live performance, exhibitions, film, talks, workshops, and writing.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity about Japanese art and culture by immersing audiences in the aesthetics, history, and rituals of Kabuki.
We aim to cultivate a sense of shared discovery — creating a space where artists, thinkers, and audiences can engage with this 400-year-old tradition in a playful and enriching way.
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