dancetheater by Octavio Campos
Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Maloney, Ron Headrick,
Octavio Campos, Matt Glass & Joshua Nardi
Sex is different now. There are new questions. And lies.
The Bugchasers is an evening-length performance that explores the nature
of desire in a marginalized world where new forms of communication and a
fraught sexual epidemiology have altered the experience of intimacy.
Bugchasers are young men who compulsively seek to become HIV positive,
eroticizing risk in a game of viral Russian roulette where the shared bond of a
communicable disease substitutes for love.
The Bugchasers incorporates theater, dance, music and video to ask
whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism
or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation.
It is a story of accelerated love in our time.
Who is that person on the other side of the mattress? How can you be sure?
WARNING: This performance is not recommended for a first date.
Needs a hermaphrodite, two more crying clowns, and a poodle to get the point across.
woofer0doofer 3 years ago 5