YUBIWA means "RING" and implies GIRLISH stuffs.

Hotel....a plece where people come.

In 1994, YUBIWA Hotel were founded by a group of students from various Universities in Tokyo. Since then, Shirotama Hitsujiya has been directed the company as an artistic director. YUBIWA Hotel sensually express impulses for sexuality or violence and instinct to eat, to live and to die as themes. Concretely, they describe various types of women and try to illustrate many mindscapes of women on the stages. By doing so, they question stereotyped women images.

Performance spaces are regarded as highly important issues. This is because YUBIWA Hotel challenge to represent new ideas of world and society through each performance in alternative spaces. What is characteristic of Hitsujiya's direction is that YUBIWA Hotel consist of only female performers, that they attempt to act out of existing theaters, and that they make the good use of live music performances with musicians.

 

 

 

Outside Japan, YUBIWA Hotel achieved simultaneous performance called "Long Distance Love" (2001) after the attack of “SEPTEMBER.11". It was made between New York and Tokyo using Internet access. They also played "YUBIWAN beauty"(2001) at restaurant in Bern and were invited to "Asia - Pacific Festival - Conference of Women in the arts" with "It's up to you"(2003). In 2005, Hitsujiya revised “Please Send Junk Food” and they played it at Asahi Art Festival, Beppu Project, and Toride Art Project. In 2006, YUBIWA Hotel made thir first European Tour of “CANDIES girlish hardcore” at CHAPTER Art Centre, ICA(United Kingdom), and ZAK in Poland The tour included its world premiere performance.