Üüve-Lydia Toompere "Flex"
Schedule
Thu Dec 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Telliskivi 60a/9, 10412 Tallinn, Estonia | Tallinn, HA
Üüve-Lydia Toompere on Eestis ja Berliinis tegutsev vabakutseline kunstnik, kes on oma varasemates lavastustes tegelenud põhiliselt sotsiaalsete kontekstide vaatlusega. Sellest tõukuvalt on üheks tema peamiseks praktikaks olnud ühiskonna ja inimeste enda lavastustesse kaasamine. Enim tähelepanu on saanud klubitantsu töötuba “Techno Praxis“ ning teatrikülastajaid kaasav lavastus “supersocial”.
Praeguseks on Lydiat aga hakanud huvitama ka klubi-, fetiš- ja postitantsu skeene. Neis maailmades esineb ta oma alter egona Fluxxious.
Oma esimeses täispikas soololavastuses Sõltumatu Tantsu Laval toob kunstnik lavale aga täiesti uue alter ego. Taaskord poeb ta justkui kellegi teise nahka ning avab uue loodud keha kaudu fantaasiarikka maailma. Flex ja Fluxxious on Toompere, aga tema äärmuslikumas vormis. See sobitub tänapäeva inforohkesse ja võistluslikult tähelepanupüüdvasse maailma paremini kui lihtsalt Lydia.
Autor, lavastaja, koreograaf: Üüve-Lydia Toompere
Lavastusdramaturg: Siim Tõniste
Valguskunstnik: Mikk-Mait Kivi
Helikunstnik: Kenn-Eerik Kannike
Lavakunstnik: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo
Esietendus 5. detsembril Sõltumatu Tantsu Laval
Lisainfo: https://www.stl.ee/lavastused/flex
ENG
Üüve-Lydia Toompere’s solo performance searches for perfection that’s brought into completion stone by stone. Toompere emerges from a cocoon in front of her audience transforming into her new alter ego Flex. She is adamant to design the perfect space and moment on stage even if she, herself, starts to crumble during the process. The work brings its audience to an unhinged gym, a laboratory of self-tuning and a parallel reality where the focus draws on the attainable and unattainability of the individual. It injects faith and also questions the societal notions of flexing.
Üüve-Lydia Toompere is a freelance artist working in Estonia and Berlin, whose earlier productions have primarily focused on exploring social contexts. That has made a lot of her practice about actively engaging society and people in her performative works. She has gained the most attention for the club dance workshop "Techno Praxis" and the performance "supersocial," which involves theatergoers as participants.
Recently, however, Lydia has also become interested in the club, fetish, and pole dance scenes. In these worlds, she performs as her alter ego, Fluxxious.
In her first full-length solo production at the Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, the artist introduces a completely new alter ego. Once again, she puts on a new persona, unveiling a fantastical world through a newly created body. Flex and Fluxxious are Toompere, but in her most extreme form. This persona fits better into the contemporary information-soaked, competitively attention-seeking world than just simply Lydia.
Author, director, choreographer: Üüve-Lydia Toompere
Dramaturg: Siim Tõniste
Light artist: Mikk-Mait Kivi
Sound artist: Kenn-Eerik Kannike
Set designer: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo
Premiere 5th of december 2024
More information: https://www.stl.ee/en/lavastused/flex-2