Wed 2 — Sat 5 April 2025,
SST, Dancehouse.
Dance.
“Ah! I’m so, so sorry to say no! Fml! oh, fml! I’m so, so sorry to say no.” cried the bastard, drowning in genuine guilt for the millionth time.
“I actually can’t... Like, I— I really can’t... Like, I actually cannot help myself...”
“The answer is always, always no,” - their PR manager cut in, all dejected.
“C’mon give me something to work with here!! You’re cockblocking every angle!” cried the journalist in utter frustration.
“I know! I’m so sorry!” exclaimed the bastard, hiding their face in shame yet again.
‘Cockblock and Repeat’ was the final title for the six-page feature. In an unprecedented move for the magazine, four of these pages—two before and two after—were left completely blank. At the centrefold, an image stretched across two full pages: a photograph of the bastard lying belly-down, fully naked, grinning widely as they held out a large, live, poisonous snake toward the camera like a freshly caught prize, while an apple, freshly bitten into, protruded from their arse.
This kind of paranoid specificity for two letters, “N” and “O”; an inability to waver left or right from their soul, forced them to rearrange life as they needed, and entirely on their terms.
A lover might have called it their jouissance for the small things; or an unhinged passion for perfection; a passion for being wild and free; or purely a libido oriented toward pain and melancholy Aka a natural attempt – natural meaning encompassing everything.
To everyone else around them, it was just f**king annoying.
Now, my love, you can get caught in this vortex too—if you will let it. It’s parasitic. It’s a parasitic paradise. A paradise for parasites. And more importantly... it’s yummy. Yum yum yum yum yum!!! !
Concept, Choreography & Performance: Gabriella Imrichova
Dramaturg: Morgan Rose
Technical Consultant: Alex Mraz
A/V Consultant: d duàn
Lighting Consultant: Jenny Hector
Proxy: Anika De Ruyter
Costume: Carys Norwood
Producer: Indiana Coole
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Photo by Nelson M Clifton.