INTRO
Amie-Blaire:
“I recently went home after a few years of being away and I saw my Dad. He’s a lot older than he was when I left. And I hugged him.
How do you describe that?
I got to hold an eight-day-old baby. I was so excited. And she was so tiny and so beautiful. But of course, as soon as I held her, she started crying.
How do you describe that?
Holding another person, another universe?
When I was a kid, I used to play this game with my sister: I’d hold my hand out, as close to her as I could, and I’d ask; “Am I touching you?”
I thought I was so clever, because I wasn’t touching her— with my hand. But I was with my foot or something else.
I used to play this in the car as well. I think I was annoyed because she is older, and always got to sit in the front. So I’d sit behind her and I’d ask,
“Am I touching you?”
I only ever touched her seat lightly, so I don’t know how she knew. But she was never wrong.”
Georgios:
Am I touching you?
GATHERING 1.
(GROUP SCENE AFTER GEORGIOS´S SOLO)
Yi-Chi: I render myself Untouchable.
Jonna: Nothing, Of permissions, Lush, First Knowing, Unconditional, Bone, Sun, Rain
Jack: My feet are rooted, My arms are open
Georgios: This need to read the world through my hands. And sometimes to consume it too
Amie-Blaire: I guard my body beyond recognition. I thicken my skin. And hover.
GATHERING 2.
(GROUP SCENE AFTER JOHANNA´S SOLO)
The flesh
The surface
The weight
The pressure,
The soothing force
It can only belong to an Other.
HUG DUET
(AMIE-BLAIRE & JACK)
Amie-Blaire:
I disappear in these moments.
As a kid, I thought I was becoming transparent,
so much so that I thought that I could talk to ghosts
An in-between state
This dark force you carried
Some nameless place between lust and destruction.
I was certain it would happen then
I slid through my own secret trap door.
Nothing actually happened
But we both know something broke under the threat
I guard my body beyond recognition
I thicken my skin
And hover
“It’s okay, I can take it.”
NATURE QUARTET
(JONNA, JOHANNA, JACK, YI-CHI, GEORGIOS)
Jonna:
Nothing
Of permissions
Lush
First
Knowing
Unconditional
Bone
Sun
Rain
(we are)
Guests
In this vast forcefield
(we are)
Temporary
In something
eternal