Bare Back Lying (2006)

«Bare Back Lying» is something like a seduction. It is also a definite break-up. It is an affair that plays through the usual stages of any relationship but which attempts to tear them open a little, teasing the limits of dishonest communication and blurring any hard distinctions between truth and illusion.

In film sequences, as the performers try on different roles out of the fantasy of past events the theatre never completely disappears, it comes rushing back to permeate the performers reality by exposing and stripping them bare.

Their movement vocabulary brings them directly in contact with each other. They are both constructing a choreographic performative machine and searching for a simple, physical way of getting through the accusations and private disturbances while keeping up appearances.

The possibly true, half true, the faked, the wishful truth, the surface truth, and the lie: all part of a shared desire to expose something real and newly discovered. It is through sustaining these metaphorical “revelations”, sustaining this awkward game that allows the performer’s sincerity a chance to emerge. There will never be enough movement, never be enough words to reach under the surface but the state of trying is truly genuine.