Created by Dan Watson
Sweetest Things is an extended version of an earlier short work, You Say The Sweetest Things, Baby. At the time I had been considering contemporary texts of desire within the greater canon of Romance whilst continually being interested in bodies seemingly ‘in trouble’, particularly the (gay) male body (mine?). This forms part of my on-going interest in “ridiculous dancing”, playfully overloading and confusing nonsensical moving. I wanted to create a solo, of sorts, that at its heart might have a relationship developing in real time. With ever more dating sites and hook up apps, increasingly digitizing and virtualizing encounters which often never get beyond the online encounter, I found myself considering the possibility of attempting to create a live spontaneous coupling. A double act when only one knows what is really going on. A desperate and public one-on-one attempt at “relating”. Sweetest Things is a combination of responsive excessive dancing, spontaneous precarious attempts, reading, trust and good-natured discomfort. |