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 at Sophiensaele in 2015, the performance celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025 – this reprised version dances audiences through the myriad questions and contradictions of this work, that time, and her world.

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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. MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) explores ideas around gender, sexuality, pleasure, performative intimacy, looking, being looked at, and performance as work. 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, desire and nostalgia into the original material.

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Structured as an essay of 13 fragments for an intimate audience of 40 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.