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 is a choreographic solo, performed by Maeva Lassere. Conceived as an autofiction, the piece takes hold of an intimate story to make it into a stage work of universal reach. Through movement, speech, image and body memory, it explores the experience of eating disorders, while questioning the pressures that weigh on female bodies and on the dancing body.

SKINNY GIRL aims to open up a broader space, where the intimate meets the political, and where a singular experience becomes a mirror of the aesthetic, social and symbolic forms of violence that pass through bodies.

Choreography & performance

Maeva Lassere

Direction

Simon Gabillet

Music composition

Jason Del Campo

Artist statement

The body is a text to decipher

With SKINNY GIRL, the stage becomes a space for reclamation. The project is born from the necessity of making the body a living memory, traversed by demand, pain and struggle, but also by resilience and reconquest. Far from an idealisation of the dancing body, the piece presents a political body, shaped by external gazes, social norms and cultural pressures. By weaving together dance, text, archival image and sound, SKINNY GIRL seeks less to recount a suffering than to transform it into an act, a thought, a power of presence.

The choreographic material draws on the sensory memory of the performer, on the tensions between control and surrender, power and collapse. The video acts as a parallel memory, made up of archival fragments and bodily metamorphoses, while the music composes a sensitive, contrasted landscape, moving between tension, intimacy and overflow.

Excerpts

On the way I stop at a new pharmacy where the pharmacist doesn't know me, which saves me the comments and lets me buy my Dulcolax in peace.

The body consumes the body. I lose muscle. The acids eat away at my tissues. I lose my hair, I lose the enamel on my teeth.

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

For a little while now I've been having some pretty extreme urges and impulses. I call them 'my little crisis'

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.