16 hours ago16 hr ICE STORY 4th "WHITE BOX" was announced on November 4th, 2026Two stops have been announced:YokohamaVenue: Pia ArenaSaturday, January 9, 2027 Doors open 15:30 Start 17:00Monday, January 11, 2027 (Holiday) Doors open 14:30 Performance starts 16:00Wednesday, January 13, 2027 Doors open 14:30 Start 16:00ShizuokaVenue: Ecopa ArenaFriday, February 5, 2027 Doors open 14:30 Start 16:00Sunday, February 7, 2027 Doors open 14:30 Start 16Official website: https://whitebox.icestory.jp/
16 hours ago16 hr Author Machine translation, inaccuracies existDescriptionSource: https://whitebox.icestory.jp/English version (official)Machine translation of the official Japanese versionA museum at the edge of the stars. Not for the chosen few, but for everyone. Here, your worth is not defined by power, status, or the outside world. Everyone can be seen, and everyone can leave something behind. Unravel your soul. Discover what lies within. And give it your own color.A museum before returning to the stars. A place that anyone can visit. Here, regardless of power, status, or the value assigned to us from the “outside,” everyone can be exhibited, and everyone can leave something behind.Unravel your own soul, discover what lies within yourself. And add your own unique colors.— From Hanyu Yuzuru's “WHITE BOX”Hanyu Yuzuru's messagePeople dear to me, things I hold dear, the past, memories, recollections.What colours does the world you see have?What colour am I, as seen by all of you?Even when we look at the same scenery, I think what we feel and what remains in our memories are different.What we like, what we dislike, what we are good at, what we are not good at. We are all different.Each of us has things we have felt up until now, and things we hold dear. And precisely because these things are different,I think that we are able to have our hearts moved by something belonging to someone else, to find our hearts moved, and to encounter ways of feeling that we ourselves do not have.I wrote this story with the wish that everyone would cherish that “being all alone”—that sense of being different from everyone else, which everyone carries—and cherish the beautiful moments, the encounters, and the happiness that were able to overlap with one another precisely because we are all “being all alone” together.Together with the world we will create with the world's finest team, beginning with MIKIKO-sensei, I will wish, pray, and skate with my whole body and soul.— Hanyu YuzuruMIKIKO's messageThe more a person comes to know the world, the freer can they become?Or is it that they come to know a place deep within themselves, a place that no one can touch?As I continue creating works together with Hanyu-kun, I find myself thinking about such things.While seeing various kinds of scenery and continuing to expand the possibilities of expression,I feel that, within him, there is a deep stillness that has remained unchanged.But now, rather than denying that stillness, in the way he accepts it as a part of himself and tries to become a source of strength for someone who, in the same way, carries feelings deep in their heart that cannot be put into words, I feel a maturity as a human being, and a new strength as an expressive artist.Loneliness can sometimes also become an entrance through which we connect with someone.And now, as we arrive at the fourth work, what surprises me most of all is that even the body that expresses such delicate and complex emotions continues to evolve beyond what I could have imagined.The deepening of the heart, and the evolution of the body.I think that precisely because these two overlap now, there are forms of expression that can be born.In this ICE STORY as well, while carefully gathering up, one by one, the memories and emotions dwelling in his body, and sensations that have not yet been given names, I would like us to create together a new scenery that only the Yuzuru Hanyu of now can depict.— MIKIKO
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