October 19, 2005

@ the EVENTS CENTER, bedstuy, Brooklyn

performed by:

Biba Bell

Gelsey Bell

choreography:

Biba Bell

text:

Gelsey Bell

music:

Suicide, Mick Turner, Mooney Suzuki

TCITCW duet

is a development of TCITCW solo,

previously performed in SF.

TCITCW duet

was performed for the AUNTS

FALL BASH#2,

a free dance & performance series

curated/hosted by AUNTS

Jbird Leary and Rebecca

Brooks.

TCITCW duet

has many small dances

inside of it and three main parts.

There is the bicycle dance

which is especially interesting

and fun to do

for a long time.

It is made to dance like a 10 speed roadbike.

Biba takes the time

to enjoy these dances.

Gelsey watches the camera,

joins Biba some, then does

one long repetitive dance of taking

9 cans of stewed tomatoes

out to the sidewalk curb to dump out later on.

TCITCW duet

includes a monologue

in which Gelsey

is telling the dream of Biba

and at the same time talking to Biba.

In this monologue

Gelsey is a mermaid

that is trapped in the arctic

and becomes a polar bear

to compensate for the extreme cold.

But the person that Gelsey is with

(is it Biba?)

(or is this Biba's dream?)

is instantly afraid

of this sudden transformation

into a polar bear, and

runs away and

Gelsey must run after them

and then she wakes Biba up

who is at this point already

thrashing around

with her blindfold.

Gelsey is locked outside on

Nostrand Avenue

and Biba runs out to get her.

TCITCW duet

was performed here

on Biba's birthday,

it had birthday elements

including streamers and a game

where one person falls and is dead

and the streamers

are thrown all over them,

then they get up and it's

the other person's turn.

... there is no movement that is not infinite [...] the movement of the infinite can occur only by means of affect, passion, love, in a becoming that is the girl, but without reference to any kind of 'mediation' [...] movement as such eludes any mediating perception because it is already effectuated at every moment, and the dancer or lover finds him- or herself already 'awake and walking' the second he or she falls down, and even the instant he or she leaps. Movement, like the girl as a fugitive being, cannot be perceived."

~ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible," a Thousand Plateaus