Stripper is an autobiographical contemporary dance solo work exploring the body as a workplace, a political site, and a creative instrument. Stemming from a decade long experience in sex work and contemporary dance, positioned between the theater stage and the erotic night club, the project reframes commodified intimacy through a transfeminist and queer lens - rejecting victimhood in favour of agency, autonomy, and embodied power.
Ieva Navickaitė is a dance artist currently based in Lithuania. She started her dance education at Kaunas School of Dance and Choreography in Lithuania, which she graduated from in 2006, parallelly completing her visual art studies at Antanas Martinaitis Visual Art School in 2007. Already then Ieva appeared with one of the leading dance companies in Lithuania - Aura Dance Theatre under the direction of Birute Letukaite. The same year Ieva was accepted into Idyllwild Arts Academy (https://www.idyllwildarts.org/) in California, USA where she was awarded a full scholarship for young talent. There she majored in dance. During and after her studies, Ieva worked with choreographers and makers such as StephanieGilliland (TONGUE / Contemporary Dance Projects), Chad Michael Hall, Ronald Brown (AlvinAiley Dance Theater, Lester Horton), Deborah Brockus (Brockus Project Dance), LillianBarbeit (Body Traffic Dance Company), Nina Watt (Limon Dance Company) and others.