PRIDE - The Fuller Picture van Claire Lefèvre

The Fuller Picture is a performative lecture based on Claire Lefèvre’s latest stage work, ‘LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished)’. In this low-tech, high-drama version of the performance, Claire interweaves archival research with personal stories to draw attention to systematic erasures within the history of dance.

By examining her own embodied archive through the lens of her encounters with the lesbian choreographer Loïe Fuller over the years, she navigates a spectrum between infatuation and disillusionment. With care, critical insight and scepticism, Claire interrogates her performative lineage and reveals the heteronormatively straightened and whitewashed legacy of modern dance.

One anecdote after another, she lays bare layers of (her) choreographic history that have shaped the way she moves through the world and across a stage.

'The Fuller Picture' also resonates with the work of Rik Wouters and his muse, Nel Wouters. Just as Wouters captured Nel's moving body in his dancing sculptures and drawings as a source of freedom, vitality and modernity, Claire Lefèvre explores how bodies, movements and the people who inspire them are made visible — or, rather, disappear from history. The dialogue between these artistic legacies invites us to re-examine who is remembered, who is depicted and who helps shape the narratives of modern art and dance.

Biography

Claire Lefèvre is a femme choreographer, a sleepless writer and a reality TV enthusiast, currently based in Vienna. In her stage works, she likes to see herself as a hostess pur sang, welcoming collaborators and audiences into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetry become subtly intertwined.

Claire writes in a variety of forms, from poetry to grant applications, regularly dabbling in performance criticism, stand-up comedy and feminist theory. She also works as a ghostwriter from time to time, mainly because of the spooky allure of the job title.

She is currently developing her practice as a *performance doula*: a role she devised in order to raise awareness of care work within the process of creating a performance and to acknowledge the often invisible support provided during the creative process.