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The Project

SKINNY GIRL is a choreographic solo, inspired by the experience of anorexia nervosa as lived by its performer, Maeva Lassere. Conceived as an autofiction, the piece takes hold of an intimate story to make it a stage work of universal reach. Through movement, speech and image, SKINNY GIRL carries the memory of a body traversed by demand, pain and resilience.

Tracing the visible and invisible mechanisms of eating disorders, the piece questions the injunctions that weigh on female bodies and the dancing body: what do we expect from the dancer's body? What forms of aesthetic violence are tolerated — even celebrated?

Drawing individual experience into a collective prism, SKINNY GIRL opens a space of reflection where the intimate meets the political, inviting everyone to question the injunctions that shape our relationship to the body, image and performance.

Artist statement

The body gives itself to be read as a living archive.

SKINNY GIRL is a choreographic and performative solo that explores eating disorders, the injunctions placed on the female body, and the mechanisms of control that run through our societies. Through a practice rooted in structured improvisation, the piece traces a sensory journey through corporeal and emotional states — between constraint, exhaustion, transformation and reclamation.

Fed by testimony, personal archives and references to contemporary digital culture (SkinnyTok, 'What I Eat in a Day', ASMR, mukbangs), the work interrogates our relationship to the body, image and performance. Mental figures emerge on stage, embodying the inner voices that accompany the experience of illness.

Between the intimate and the political, SKINNY GIRL does not seek to recount a suffering but to transform it into an artistic act. The piece also celebrates the power of the living body, the pleasure of movement and the deep joy of dancing, affirming the possibility of reclaiming one's own story beyond social injunctions.

Excerpts

I love sitting in my bed with my coffee and scrolling through videos of healthy girl, fit girl, skinny girl, work out girl, veggie girl, vegan girl.

I update my notes on: where to eat, what to eat, what's best to eat, what you shouldn't eat, what you should eat, what you definitely shouldn't eat.

I'm suffering physically and yet I love it. At the same time I grew up with the pleasure of suffering. To do dance, you have to love suffering: I've been doing it since I was 5.

Given the state of my body, one could wonder how I'm still standing. But despite that, I manage to dance without any problem: the power of the mind.

In general, when I've finished scrolling, that's when the laxative kicks in. I rush to the bathroom, I purge and then take a shower.

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