Lilith is so Lilith

Lilith Performance Studio Catalogue Launch featuring five performances on June 5th, 2010. Tsuneko Taniuchi (JPN), Melati Suryodarmo (IDN), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (PHL, DNK), Saralunden (SWE) and Tanya Mars (CAN) Lilith Performance Studio launches its first Performance Catalogue, Lilith Performance Studio 20072009. We celebrate this by showing performances by five artists who all have had a prior production period in the studio; Tsuneko Taniuchi (JPN), Melati Suryodarmo (IDN), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (PHL, DNK), Saralunden (SWE) och Tanya Mars (CAN). Melati Suryodarmo (b. in 1969 in Surakarta, Indonesia, lives and works in Braunschweig, Germany) performes EXERGIE Butter dance, an older piece but shown for the first time at Lilith. 20 blocks of butter in a square on the black dance carpet. Suryodarmo enters the space, dressed in a black tight dress and red high heels. She steps on the pieces of butter. She starts to dance to the sound of indonesian shamanistic drums. She dances a