Melanie Jame Wolf: MIRA FUCHS (a reprise)
- Concept, choreography, video, text, performance: Melanie Jame Wolf
- Sound: two4K / Carl Anderson
- Costume styling: Agne Auzelyte
- Light design & technical direction: Cathy Walsh
- Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart
A production by Melanie Jame Wolf in coproduction with Sophiensæle in the frame of Tanztage Berlin 2015 with the kind support of Arts House Melbourne and Creative Victoria. The reprise was supported by the Wiederaufnahmeförderung of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Mira Fuchs is an expert private dancer and the public face of choreographer and visual artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s eight-year private life working as a stripper in one of the largest clubs in Melbourne. Drawing on the artist’s, experience audiences are invited to critically reflect on their own position in relation to stripping. Structured as an essay of thirteen fragments for an intimate audience of forty people, MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) is a work about work, a performance about performance. It is an abstracted memoir of the body as a political riddle.
Moving across choreography, performance, text, moving image, sculpture, and installation, Melanie Jame Wolf’s (AU) work is concerned with the problems and poetics of class, sensuality, gender, narratology, the radical vulnerability of the live moment, and the body as an unruly political riddle. In her practice, performance is understood as a technology of survival.
The performance is in English. A description in Slovenian will be available.