Melanie Jame Wolf: MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Melanie Jame Wolf:
MIRA FUCHS (a reprise)
MIRA FUCHS (a reprise)
English
10€/15€/20€/25€
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Mira Fuchs is an expert. An expert private dancer. She is the public face of choreographer and visual artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s 8-year private life working as a stripper in one of the largest clubs in Melbourne. Following its premiere at Tanztage Berlin 2015, the performance is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – and wants to dance the audience through the myriad questions and contradictions of this work, that time and her world.
Offering Melanie Jame Wolf’s own experience as a looking glass through which audiences are invited to critically reflect on their own position in relation to stripping, she draws on the specific vocabularies of this extended bodily practice. The work seeks to explore ideas around gender, sexuality, pleasure, performative intimacy, the gaze and performance as labor. At the same time, ten years is a long time, especially for bodies that labor. And so, the reprise of the performance also incorporates questions about aging and desire, and nostalgia into the original material.
Structured as an essay of fragments and made for an intimate audience, MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) proposes itself as an abstracted memoir of the body as a political riddle.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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Concept, choreography, video, text, performance: Melanie Jame Wolf
Sound design: two4K / Carl Anderson
Costume styling: Evan Loxton
Light design, technical direction: Cathy Walsh
Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart
Production (Reprise): Diana Paiva/High Expectations
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 is supported by the Wiederaufnahmeförderung of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Melanie Jame Wolf makes artworks, performances, and texts about power, persona and the phenomenon of “show business”: the liminal, the persuasive, the deceptive, the staged, and the performed in the political, theatrical and everyday. Her work explores the vulnerability of the live moment and the body as an unruly political riddle. These investigations are expressed through shape-shifting and play with language in surprising and humorous ways.
Spaces that have presented her work include Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel – Gegenwart, KW – Institute of Contemporary Art, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art biennial, VAEFF – Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica, Schwules Museum, Sophiensæle, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne, Kasseler Dokfest, Bärenzwinger Berlin, SOPHIE TAPPEINER and Institute of Modern Art Brisbane. Wolf was one of 8 nominees for the 2022 Berlin Art Prize.
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