- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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And The Rest Of Me Floats
About this book
I was born in 1994, then came windows 95,
And I would dive online to be the true me –
A 2cm avatar with a denim mini and a high pony.
Online all the time, to avoid conversation and the frustration of being a he, she, they or me…
I felt free.
And The Rest Of Me Floats is all about the messy business of gender. Performers from across the trans, non-binary, and queer communities weave together autobiographical performance, movement, pop songs, stand-up and dress-up in this anarchic celebration of gender expression and identity.
And I would dive online to be the true me –
A 2cm avatar with a denim mini and a high pony.
Online all the time, to avoid conversation and the frustration of being a he, she, they or me…
I felt free.
And The Rest Of Me Floats is all about the messy business of gender. Performers from across the trans, non-binary, and queer communities weave together autobiographical performance, movement, pop songs, stand-up and dress-up in this anarchic celebration of gender expression and identity.
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The performers arrive individually. They come into the space and ‘meet’ the audience; making direct eye contact, allowing the audience to really take them in. This goes on for an almost uncomfortable amount of time.
TIMELINE 1
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| 5 | |||
| ELIJAH: | nightmares about fire begin | ||
| 21 | |||
| TAMIR: | come out as non-binary | ||
| 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 3 | 21 | |
| 18 | |||
| EMILY: | Finally, start taking hormones. | ||
| 15 | 3 | 4 | |
| 27 | |||
| JOSH-SUSAN: | Colour | ||
| 27 | |||
| ELIJAH: | And the rest of me floats | ||
GRID
The company perform a tightly choreographed grid-like sequence; BARRY, ELIJAH and MICHELLE perform one route, JOSH-SUSAN and EMILY perform the second, and TAMIR and YASMIN perform the third. There are beats playing based on 80s New York house. Their walks are exaggerated versions of each other’s gait. They plod, mince, stomp, stride, glide and sashay through the sequence, constrained by the strict pathways created for them.
THE INTERNET
– Our baby is talking to strangers
– He is lonely
– They don’t seem to have many friends
– They need to spend some time with real people
TAMIR: Gender is performative
they said
or is that me
they
or them
distant from knowing or showing
performing an alluring version of myself
I was born in 1994, then came Windows 95, and I would dive online,
on Habbo Hotel to be the true me,
a two-cm avatar with a denim mini and a high pony.
Online, all the time, to avoid conversation and the frustration of being a He, which wasn’t me, or her
TAMIR/YASMIN: Can you see me?
TAMIR: Oh, sorry my cam’s broke/
YASMIN: My camera doesn’t work sometimes.
T/Y: Are you there?
TAMIR: I love Dairy Milk chocolate
YASMIN: I’m a music producer, a record producer.
No, wait, I work in the music industry
TAMIR: I’m Gemma Genocide, scene queen, ruled by the darkness
YASMIN: Calvin, but you can call me Cal, everyone does
TAMIR: I bet you say that to all the girls/
YASMIN: Do you talk to other guys
TAMIR: How would you kiss me?
YASMIN: I’m working on a track for Stormzy
T/Y: What are you up to right now?
TAMIR: I live in town
YASMIN: LA is cool, but Southampton is more chill.
T/Y: Can you see me?
TAMIR: So annoying my camera is fucked/
YASMIN: I’ll have to pick up another from the studio
TAMIR: Can we cam tomorrow
YASMIN: I’ll sort it for tomorrow
TAMIR: My band is doing really well at the moment, we are called My Screaming Heart
YASMIN: I used to have a girlfriend but she got too clingy. I’m single at the moment.
TAMIR: I wrote a song called ‘This girl won’t bleed again’, it’s not out yet
YASMIN: Bacardi and Coke
TAMIR: Absinthe straight up, sometimes with Coke.
YASMIN: Do you want to meet me?
TAMIR: We s...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1