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, in 2025 the performance is celebrating its 10th anniversary  – and wants to dance the audience 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. 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.
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Structured as an essay of fragments and made for an intimate audience of 40 people in the round, MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) is an abstracted memoir of the body as a political riddle.