“Flex”: solo performance by Üüve-Lydia Toompere at the Independent Dance Stage (STL)

Üüve-Lydia Toompere’s solo production seeks the perfection that must be carried together stone by stone. Before the audience’s eyes Toompere emerges from her cocoon and transforms on stage into her new alter ego, Flex. She designs a perfect space and moment on stage with unwavering confidence, but along the way she may start to crumble herself. The show takes viewers into a dislocated gym, a self-tuning laboratory and a parallel reality, where attention is focused on the impossible capabilities of the individual. The power station injects faith, but also tests social ideas about showing strength.

Üüve-Lydia Toompere is a freelance artist working in Estonia and Berlin who has mainly examined social contexts in her earlier productions. Her main practice has been involving society and people themselves in her productions. Most attention has gone to the club dance workshop “Techno Praxis” and the audience-involving production “supersocial”. Lately she has also become interested in club, fetish and post-dance scenes, where she performs as her alter ego Fluxxious.

In her first full-length solo production on the Independent Dance Stage, the artist brings a completely new alter ego to the stage. Once again she slips into someone else’s skin and opens a fantasy world through a newly created body. Flex and Fluxxious are Toompere, but in her more extreme form. This fits the information-saturated, competitive and attention-grabbing world of today better than simply Lydia does.

Author, director, choreographer: Üüve-Lydia Toompere. Dramaturg: Siim Tõniste. Light: Mikk-Mait Kivi. Sound: Kenn-Eerik Kannike. Stage design: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo.

Premiere 5 December at the Independent Dance Stage.

Time and place: 2 December 2026, 19:00, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Telliskivi 60a/9, Tallinn.