I AM NOT Company · Creation 2027

Skinny
Girl

Solo · danced autofiction · ~60 min

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The Project

To whom does our body belong?

SKINNY GIRL transforms an intimate story into a choreographic object of universal reach. Through movement, speech, image and body memory, the piece explores the experience of anorexia nervosa.

Confronting the audience with societal dictates that weigh on female bodies, SKINNY GIRL asks an essential question: to whom does our body belong?

Choreography & performance

Maeva Lassere

Direction

Simon Gabillet

Music composition

Jason Del Campo

Artist statement

The body is a text to decipher

SKINNY GIRL was born of a necessity: to bring a lived experience to the stage, to become the memory of a body shaped by demand, pain, and resilience.

The choreographic material springs from dissonance: between power and collapse, ecstasy and exhaustion, control and surrender.

It is in the mouth that revolt begins.
— Loren Malka, Mangeuses

Excerpts

I suffer physically and yet I love it. I grew up with the pleasure of pain. To dance, you have to love to suffer.

The body consumes itself. I lose muscle. Acids eat through my tissues. I lose my hair, the enamel of my teeth.

I know I've gained weight when my fingers no longer touch around my thigh.

Going up and down on the cold bathroom scale. The power of the mind.

Choreographer · Performer

Maeva
Lassere

1m75 · 62 kg

Trained at the National Ballet schools of Marseille and Canada. Staatstheater Nürnberg, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, Lyon Opera Ballet. Freelance since 2023.