The David Lynch of Dance

New York Choreographer and reviewer-darling, Amanda Loulaki, and her company Short Mean Lady, presents her work Delirium or That Taste in my Mouth (2007) for the first time in Europe, friday the 25th of September.

”I want the audience to join us in a state of delirium and to feel free to make their own associations with the work,” says Greek-born Amanda Loulaki about her piece.
Amanda Loulaki has created Delirium or That Taste in my Mouth - in dialogue with her ”collaborators", as she prefers to call her dancers, Carolyn Hall, Rebecca Serrell and Pedro Osorio.
At a certain point in the process of creation, the performance gets its own life, and miss Loulaki feels that she must respect that.
”The performance gets its own voice. It explains what it needs, and then I have to compromise with it to fulfill the needs of the work”.

Role model for new NY-choreographers
"I am strange. Some call me the David Lynch of dance. But to create a performance is like having a baby. You have to talk to it and to respect its needs” Amanda Loulaki continues.
Among the good reviews were some in the New York Times. Amanda Loulaki is – to use her own words – not a shooting star, though. Not anymore at least. She has been, and now she is an advocate for younger Amercian choreographers.
For a long time she has been categorized as an explicit physical artist, but with Delirium or That Taste in my Mouth, she has taken a different route and is playing with tme and perception in a non-linear way.