Begunperiodicpassageslapsesintervalsapproachingwarpcompressionmiddleeventabsoluteconcludinghorizonturnending (Permanent Distraction)



Permanent Distraction is the abridged title that refers to the attention economy. This work is a reponse and respite and/or remedy for the seemingly perpetual proliferation of media & signs, and the pace of modern society.

Part way through, the show is intercepted with a text about the title of the show and what a title might mean,

“Welcome to

Begunperiodicpassageslapsesintervalsapproachingwarpcompressionmiddleeventabsoluteconcl udinghorizonturnending (Permanent Distraction)

What’s a title or What’s in a title?

Title as name
Title as prologue
Title as preface
Title as forward
Title as afterword
Title as summary
Title as epilogue
Title as coda
Title as story
Title as criteria
Title as expansion
Title as exposition
Title as descriptor
Title as description
Title as program notes
Title as challenge
Title as trojan horse
Title as identity
Title as container
Title as portrayal
Title as schema
Title as mnemonic
Title as forge in history
Title as history
Title as historical marker
Title as immortality
Title as fear of death
Title as transcendence
Title as the start
Title as introduction
Title as beginning
Title as beginning, middle, and end
Title as cover
Title as subtitle
Title as caption
Title as imagery
Title as brief
Title as marketing
Title as the initial reveal
Title as advertisement
Title as trailer
Title as forewarning
Title as preview
Title as review
Title as placeholder
Title as working title
Title as namesake
Title as required
Title as constituent part
Title as verb
Title as the bottomline
Title as pedestal
Title as first impression
Title as lasting impression
Title as framework
Title as contextual framework
Title as context
Title as lens
Title as gaze
Title as subject
Title as object
Title as capital
Title as commodity
Title as token
Title as topic
Title as conversation
Title as talking point
Title as a roundabout way of saying...
Title as failure
Title as success
Title as earned
Title as just another title
Title as a joke
Title as the set up
Title as the punchline
Title as temptation
Title as provocation
Title as stance
Title as stake
Title as the stakes
Title as claim
Title as signifier
Title as position
Title as transcription
Title as translation
Title as metaphor
Title as meaning
Title as a vibe
Title as a glimpse
Title as hint
Title as red herring
Title as curse
Title as burden
Title as weight
Title as interpretation

Considered titles for the work
Untitled
Permanent distraction
Force due to gravity
AHAahahahahaha!
AHAhahahahmmmawahuh!
Peak Performance
November
July
Winter
Untitled (Winter)
Untitled Winter
Winter special
Permadevotion
Devotion
Dreams rehearsed
Special thanks
Total and utter co-opt
Numerous choreographies
Itemised choreographies
Systemic choreography
Choreographism
A collective sigh
Perpetual choreographies
A, a dance show Begunperiodicpassageslapsesintervalsapproachingwarpcompressionmiddleeventabsoluteconcl udinghorizonturnending (permanent distraction)
“I wrote you”
The dream about the show
Score 12 Organisational Performance & Improvement
Lack
Essential service
Look, twice
I wonder
Blurbing
Otherstanding
Abundance
Movement is your neutral
Danc
Stillness is your choice
Horribly functional, rigorously emotional
Undo
Practicing scores
Existing in performance
Acts of devotion to dance
Inefficient means to an end
Pavlovs in dance
What we’ve come to associate with dance
Dancephilia
Dance porn
Choosing to move
Non-fiction dance
Light in rigorous choreographies
Light in terribly functional choreographies
Light within the tunnel
Celebrating a number of things—most notably friends and Gravity Another go
Reflection of dance reflecting dance
A reflection of dance
Mirroring dance
Reflecting dance
Deflecting dance
Reflecting, deflecting, and genuflecting
Tired, wired, and inspired
Freely associate
Dance, danced, dancing (2022)
Dancing around dance
Dancing around the subject
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Two day old fish
A collective sigh
Mimetic practice Mimetic desire The duel Grazing
Selling shit
Felt not seen
Ruse
Is this what we’ve come to?
Et Cetera”


Later, a play reading based on real, mundane, and extraordinary conversations between the performers in rehearsal.

And then exposition into the metaphoric red herring of the work, ‘horses’.

And then “nothing choreographed for ten minutes” before the second half of the work commences

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