2: This is a strip bar in Montreal

1: This is a sticky note reminding me to breathe

2: This is the troposphere

1: This is my first day on the job

2: This is my friend Thomas, whom I betrayed

1: This is my friend Mike, whom I loved unrequitedly

2: This is a meal of leftovers

1: This is a reality TV show about wedding dresses

2: This is March

1: This is the birthday party I didn’t invite you to

2: This is West Queen West

1: This is our youth

2: This is a pervert

1: This is a baseball field at night

2: This is an algebra problem

1: This is a cashmere turtleneck

1 and 2 continue to gesture on all lines.

1: This is astronomy

This is a lone deer in a field

This is its white tail

This is a long shot

This is my friend Mark, who lost his mind

This is you withholding love

This is a YouTube video of a panda sneezing

This is a portal

This is the turning point

This is gluten-free

This is a fetish

This is an after-hours tiki bar

1 and 2 gesture on each other’s lines.

2: This is you putting your hand on the small of my back

1: This is a small town with a big church

2: This is a limp dick

1: This is a race car

2: This is a palindrome

1: This is white male privilege

2: This is a syringe

1: This is a rigged ballot

2: This is a wet plastic bag

1 and 2 gesture on their own lines.

1: This is a vicious cycle

2: This is the Command button on your keyboard

1: This is the white chalk in the blackboard eraser

3 and 4 enter and join the performance without interrupting the flow of movement and text.

Hereafter, performers may ‘steal’ other performer’s declarations – speaking a declaration at the same time as the other performer while offering-up their own spontaneous gesture. The effect creates an overlapping of text but an asynchronicity of gesture. The emergence of these ‘steals’ should happen gradually but with increasing frequency.

3: This is your kindness

4: This is a man vomiting out of a cab

1: This is the hum of a refrigerator

2: This is lightning seen from space

3: This is a convent of nuns

4: This is a backyard trampoline covered in leaves

1: This is a taco

2: This is a diving bell

3: This is a slow fade to black

4: This is something I whipped together

1: This is April

2: This is a stand of birch trees

3: This is a fragment of Attic pottery

4: This is colonization

1: This is a problematic passage in a history textbook

2: This is a satyr

3: This is the vanishing point

4: This is a charismatic cult leader

1: This is a rat

2: This is the year 1992.

3: This is a cold draft

4: This is a premonition

1: This is the fuzz of a peach

2: This is a portrait of a woman

3: This is my elbow

1: This is Sylvia Plath’s oven

4: This is an extinct species

2: This is the Berlin Wall

3: This is a customer service representative

4: This is my best side