I Keep Dancing on My Own (Dance with Me),
Live Performance, 2013

Some Rooms
Marrickville Garage Gallery
Performed on the 4th November 2013.
5-hour duration

This live performance examines gender, sexuality and identity, and the relationship between self and other. We all move to a beat, whether it is music or our own internal rhythm. Others meet that rhythm when they share our space and respond to our movement.

The performance took place in a bedroom. A mirror was positioned in front of an ajar door, making this private space visible only as a reflection. For five hours I danced behind the door without music. With no soundtrack, identity became internalised, a drum with its own beat, and the beat of my steps was the only rhythm.

The work explores an internalised longing for another’s reflection. Dancing behind the door, I enact the self in an intimate setting, hoping another will connect with my reflection. Projection and reflection are bound together. The viewer’s reflection is invited to meet mine, but we never physically meet. Only our reflections dance.