Another mind-blowing performance in the SPILL festival, where Empress Stah, dressed with intergalactic second skin clothes (or none at all) contorts gracefully her body across the stage, blow-up stars below. Great acrobatics. The control she has over her body movements, despite the massive heels, of every part of her body, including her powerful gripping vagina muscles.
Her costumes, helmet, masks, heels, light devices are amazing. The slight clumsiness and awkardness of a robotic pokemon-power ranger on heels is overcomed by her pristine, decisive moves, and her authenticity. Everything is part of the Stah outerworld.
The peak of the piece was her use of her vaginal orifice creatively in the performance. Her white suit had a small red-pink opening, like a belly button made of cloth, which drew our atenttion to her parts, as she spread her legs and bended her body into forms. It was later revealed infront of our bewildered eyes that this gave access to her powerful vaginal muscles, which she used to hold a pen-like device to write onto a touch-screen, and later on, to hold a torch that shot a striking red beam of light which shone through a smoke filled stage, combining her twists and turns with a beautiful light show!
Empress Stah is an Aerial artist and neo-cabaret performer, this performance is "part of an ongoing project with a long-term ambition; to create a performance in outer space (...) Set on the plane of immanence, the show's concepts have been transcribed through trance and writing sessions between Empress Stah and seminal artist Ron Athey, which took place at Bentwaters in Suffolk, the site of the biggest purpoted UFO/Military incident in Europe." (SPILL 2013 catalog)
