LOOP POOL

‘A surprisingly fresh and mature debut from an emerging choreographer. Lili Stern’s knowledge is nurtured by bold experimentation, conscientious research, as well as intuition, all of which she delivers in her original movement language. She makes excellent use of her genuine and arresting personality as a performer. The subject of distorted body image, to be more precise, anorexia nervosa, resonates with more than just her generation of young women. Lili’s inspiration for this has come from the experience of a close friend. The intense kinetic experience that this piece offers, opens up an inner dialogue about how we see, inhabit and occasionally exploit our body. The set resembles a pool without water, where everything from sound to lights seem to give the impression of gradually tightening loops. As the performer moves in this space, she creates a heavy feeling of being eaten up alive, as if an insatiable greed of self-destructive power consumes her from within.’ Orsolya Bálint, curator