A gay video and not gay, a dance tape and not a dance tape - in any case a great performance on the topic of man. Bodyrhythms in a disco. The usual rituals of flirting. Glances, touches, first tenderness on naked skin. Distance or no distance, what remains seems to be loneliness. In another room, slowness is entering, violence is lurking in the background. Words are not uniting, and the longing for passion is growing. Tenderness begins to scare, and even going up the walls is not a way out. Bodies are sweating. Two men are embracing each other, one who desires and the other who is terrified. By his desire? By the imminent touching or by possible blows? This chamber piece of male bodies has no actual script. Wanting love and fighting off the other is embodied in the agony of closeness and in the cold of the tiled bathroom. Standstills and intensive movement. At some point, one man is crouching like an embryo in the bathtub, wearing the other’s slip, hanging down with his feet up. In the end the exhaustion of being male prevails. A piece created by Lloyd Newson
The performers are: Lloyd Newson, Nigel Charnock, Russel makphant, Douglas Wright.