Fudetani
Ryoya Lighting design for the performing arts

After a career in architecture and design, Ryoya Fudetani began working in lighting design for performing arts, contemporary art installations, photography and architecture. His wide-ranging creative and theoretical work develops polyphonically through the various technical categories. As a lighting designer, he has been invited to festivals abroad and has been involved as a creative partner in numerous productions. He has collaborated with Japanese theater artists and companies such as Yukio Suzuki, Okazaki Art Theatre, Antibodies collective and traditional Japanese no-theater. In 2016 he received the Japan Foundation Asia Fellowship and in 2018 a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs to work at the KAAI Theater in Belgium. Ryoya Fudetani has developed lighting designs for various performances by Ula Sickle, Joshua Serafin, Michèle Noiret, field works and many other project-based initiatives. In collaboration with Theater Basel, he created the lighting design for the dance production ‹Der Fall›.