“Exposes the trade of the lap dance, counts its costs and reinvents it as an intimate gift." The Guardian
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement presents MIRA FUCHS
25 minutes Theatre Rehearsal Room, Judith Wright Centre Adults (18+)
MIRA FUCHS is an expert. An expert private dancer.
MIRA FUCHS is the public face of artist Melanie Jame Wolf's eight year private life working as a stripper. Mira wants to dance you through the myriad of questions and contradictions of this work, that time and her world using Melanie Jame's own experience as a looking glass through which audiences are invited to critically reflect on their own ideas about stripping.
Structured as an essay of fragments and made for an intimate audience seated in the round, MIRA FUCHS proposes itself as an abstracted memoir of the body as a political riddle. Entertaining and unflinchingly personal, it explores ideas around gender, sexuality, pleasure, performative intimacy, the gaze and dance as labour.
Please note: delegates will be required to sign-up for this Showcase from Monday 22 February at the Information Desk.
Image: Damian Stephens
Meet the artist
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Melanie Jame Wolf is an Australian-born artist living and working between Melbourne and Berlin. She makes work under the name Savage Amusement, sometimes solo, sometimes with friends. This work is always performance-based, often participatory and increasingly incorporates video and the screen as performance objects or spaces. Melanie Jame makes work about love, economies and ghosts of many forms.
As Savage Amusement, she has presented work in various contexts across Europe and Australia and she is also a member of Triage, who are currently working on the 2014-16 European Cultural Commission curatorial project HOTEL OBSCURA.