The Kyabajo is a flirting hostess.

She serves drinks, lights cigarettes and has intelligent conversations with hard-working businessman.

But who has the power in this relationship? And who uses who?

Kyabajo (2018) is a solo piece where the identity of the typical Japanese hostess is embodied and gets deconstructed in a surreal way. There is a quest moving on from the beginning and it’s rooted in the research of how power can manifest in subtle ways: how a role that’s normally thought as submissive can reveal itself as more ambiguous and complex. The challenge to talk about this complexity is taken through the use of abstractions that estrange this figure from her original context and put her in a one that is slightly more dreamy.