Chisato Minamimura: Mark of A Woman

Sat 04 Oct 2025 6:30PM

Sat 04 Oct 2025

6:30PM

Aldridge Studio

Past event

Chisato Minamimura celebrates and explores personal histories and historical accounts of women and tattooing cultures. Featuring movement, digital animation and vibration-based Woojer technology, hidden and untold female stories about bodies and body marking are brought to life in a multi-sensory experience.

This performance of Mark of A Woman uses Woojer straps, which are available to book with tickets for this performance on selected seats. Woojer Straps are vibrating belts designed to offer an additional sensory experience for audiences by enabling the user to feel sound vibration.

Commissioned by The Place and BAC, supported using public funds from Arts Council England. Supported by Pavilion Dance South West, Wellcome Collection and Auckland Arts Festival. Mark of a Woman is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2023 commission with Southbank Centre made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.

★★★★ "Chisato Minamimura is, in every sense of the word, impressive in her latest performance piece, Mark of a Woman. Gliding across the expanse of The Place’s auditorium in this part lecture, part physical theatre, the Deaf Japanese woman (she introduces herself as such) presents a forceful and fascinating history of tattoos." - Liam O’Del

Additional Information

Age Recommendation: 14+

Runtime: 50 mins

Free sheet

Access Information

Audio Described with Touch Tour at 5.30pm. Delivered by Anne Horsby from Mind's Eye

Performances alternates between BSL and Visual Vernacular- suitable for d/Deaf audiences
Vibrating Woojer straps provided by the company, max 70 available.

Content Warnings

This performance contains reference to colonialism, abduction, sexual assault and mild torture. It also references cancer treatment and mastectomy surgery. There is haze, flickering lights and some loud noises.

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Credits

Artistic Director and Performer: Chisato Minamimura
Production Manager and Lighting Designer: Jon Armstrong
Projection Designer: Mark Morreau
Sound Designer: Dominic Kennedy
Animator: Dan Chambers
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Dramaturgical Support: Sarah Pickthall and Orrow Bell
Costume Designer: Sophie Donaldson
Filmmaker: Caroline Smith
QLab programmer: Simon Jackson
Interviewees: Sonia Zambakides and Shuko Fujita
Audio Describer: Willie Elliot
BSL Translator: Fifi Garfield
Visual Vernacular Expert: Giuseppe Giuranna
BSL/Visual Language Consultant: Ramesh Meyyappan
Tattoo Consultants: Stewart O'Callaghan and Nikole Lowe
Trailer: No Class