shirotama hitsujiya

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◇"EXCHANGE" European Tour

28th, 29th, 30th, March. 2008 Gdansk, Poland - klub ZAK
3rd, 4th, 5th, April. 2008 Cardiff, United Kingdom - CHAPTER art centre
17th, 18th, 19th. 2008 Paris, France - Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris

◇"Please Send Junk Food (Workshop Solution)" in Brazil

16th, 17th, 18th, 19th March. 2008 Sao Paulo, Brazil - SESC http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/

Please access to see the reports from Brasil - http://blog.yubiwahotel.net

◇Shirotama to appear in Richard Foreman's New Peice

The director, Richard Foreman and Sophie Haviland(Artist) launched "The Bridge Project".It is to create visual materials in various countries and bring them to performing piece. YUBIWA Hotel were invited to "The Bridge Project" held in Kyoto by the University who organized it last year. Many of the materials taken in Kyoto Unit are used in "Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland" and Shirotama is appearing in the film.

/Ontological Hysteric Theatre/The Bridge Project

◇Finished Japan touring of new piece "EXCHANGE". We apprecate your coming.
◇Finished playing in Osaka and Tokyo. For the further information of this, please access www.yubiwahotel.com.
◇YIN&YANG [CANDIES - girlish hardcore&Please Send Junk Food] 28-31. March 2007. Tokyo Morishita Studio
◇YUBIWA Hotel was presented at Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2007. For further details, please access www.tpam.or.jp
◇North Amrican Tour "CANDIES girlish hardcore" finished with much compliment. We thank all the people on it.

◇◇◇ YUBIWA Hotel ◇ gallery◇ credits ◇◇◇

Hitsujiya, Shirotama - Artstic Director

Japan Directors Association, Director
Japan Playwrights Association, Member

composite by Sakiko Nomura　styling by Sanae Konishi

In 1990, Hitsujiya started singing in clubs and performing in Tokyo.
In 1994, she founded YUBIWA Hotel as artistic director. Since then, she has used a warehouse, a tennis court, a strip club and an art gallery as performance venues. The performers of YUBIWA Hotel are all female and Hitsujiya tries to seek and suggest new views and images of society, the world and women.

She is known for her expressions of human desires, sexuality and violence and the instinct for food, life, and death.Describes a new mindscape of women through their bodies and stages the questions "What are women?" and "Why do we believe stereotypical images of women?".

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