A dark lecture hall. All that can be seen is the dim glow of the projector screen to the right.
The projector screen lights up with a swirling blue pattern. Another projector screen, on the left, lights up as well. A womandances frantically in the darkness.
The lights gradually turn on. The woman continues to dance. She rolls around on the floor. She dances all around the room, sometimes spilling into the audience, rolling on their laps.
The sleeves to her torn button-up shirt sometimes threaten to come off as she dances wildly.
She climbs now deep into the audience, climbing over entire rows -- rolling across the laps of several people. She makes her way through the audience and pauses just before reentering the performance area. She then exits the room to her right.
Poet Julie Carr, who had been sitting near the front of the audience, stands. The lights shut off abruptly, then spotlight Julie.
She stands now at a microphone.
Julie Carr stands at the microphone, her poetry in her hands. Images of dancers rolling on their heads appear on the projector screens.. Another dancer appears before the projectors and dances as Julie recites her poetry.
The dancer goes into an extreme squat, then stands up and sways.
The dancers on the projector screen move in extreme slow motion.
The dancers on screen are superimposed with a third as one of them stands.
The other prone dancer on screen stands as the three sway themselves around.
The dancer in the room rolls gracefully on the floor and stands back up.
The dancer looks up, then squats, standing again,
The dancer continues to sway gracefully around.
The dancer lies in a fetal position.
The dancer stands and continues to dance.
The dancer's movements intensify, growing faster and more chaotic.
The dancer sits on the left front side of the audience.
Julie Carr takes the microphone off its stand. She moves to the performance floor, standing on the left side. The dancer stands and moves to the right side and resumes dancing.
The dancer moves to left side, almost touching Julie Carr, then lies down, coming back up to a sitting position.
The dancer stands and dances again.
She is talking with the dancer.
They approach each other.
The dancer dances way from Julie.
Julie Carr follows the dancer's movements with her eyes, seeking a response that does not come.
The dancer runs circles around the room.
The dancer clings to Julie Carr's back.
The dancer runs off again.
Julie returns to mic stand.
The dancer stomps on the ground.
The dancer stomps off to the side, then stands still, hand on head.
The dancer moves to a chair before a projector screen.
The dancer takes the chair and moves into shadows on the left front of the room.
Two of the projector screens show a video of a woman in the kitchen of a home. The dancer sits in the chair, her shadow blending in with the image on the left projector. The woman on screen boils water on a stove top, back turned to the shadow of the dancer.
The video on screen dissolves into another in which the woman is dressed differently and boils water in a teakettle. She picks up a pair of shoes and rifles through a cupboard for an ash tray. She sets the ash tray on the kitchen table and the shoes on the chair. The video dissolves into another. The ash tray and shoes are gone. The woman rifles through a closet, taking out various dishes and places them on the table.
The video dissolves into another, the objects now missing from the table. The woman sits at the table, hands placed in front of her.
The woman stands. The video dissolves into another, this one almost identical. The woman sits again. The screen abruptly goes black. The dancer continues to sit before the screen, perfectly still in the silence.
We move back to see the stage, empty except for the dancer, who can barely be seen in the dim light.
The dancer slowly stands and moves into the light.
The dancer returns the chair and sits.
The dancer stands again and slowly moves into the light.
The dancer slowly moves across the room to stand before the projector on the right. The dancer raises her left hand high in the air as her vast shadow is cast before the screen.
She slowly raises her other hand before her head, then languidly goes into a dance move.
The dancer ends this dance-like motion by lying on her back before the screen.
Video appears on the screen, from the perspective of a passenger traveling in train or car. The landscape rolls by, giving way to a great body of water.
The dancer slowly stands, casting shadow again on the screen, and repeats the slow dance-like movement.
The dancer's shadow blends in with video on the screen, appearing to dance before the water rolling by.
The dancer moves to a projector in the center of the room that has been unused this whole time, dancing before this blank screen as the water rolls by on the screen, giving way to the iron bars of bridges.
All of the projectors go black.
The lights dim until all that is left is a faint pink glow on the dancer, who leans forward, head thrown back, and stands perfectly still.
The lights slowly fade to total darkness.
The lights come back on as Julie Carr and the dancer step to the center of the room and bow.