OTHER SIDE GONE

dance / text Ellen Johannesen Julyen Hamilton light / sound Svante Grogarn

I BOUGHT YOU A DUCK i bought you a duck and you were ungrateful i bit off your leg and froze it and scratched your back until there was very little skin left. you housed me and fed me grease and soot i heard you were wealthy   but it was just the sparkle behind your eyes and your way of walking slightly slower than the others. i tortured your soul once i had found it and made nightmares of your sleep with my howling tuneless lullabies. I supposed there were few alternatives for a dog like me and a night like you. JH

ILLUSION Jesus Christ resurrected, shrugs his shoulders as he walks from the grave, Mary, Mary, wide eyed gazing: "I told you it was an illusion" he said EJ

REVENGE I love it when you hit me hard said the donkey to the man. Who lifting his stick to deliver a whack. suddently died of a heart attack I love it when you kick my ass said the slave to his big white boss. Who kicking his nigger black and blue, tore his meniscus and ruined his shoe I love it when you pull my hair said the frail little wife to her man. Who performing the age – old caveman routine. got his penis stuck in her knitting machine EJ

BURNING ADVICE to the atheist allow the question of afterlife to melt the rationalised future to the believer let go of belief and peel your eyes to the evidence to the hopeful let the roads of hope be laid but without need to be travelled to the wise fall forwards into deep blue beautiful youth and strip time away beyond its reign to the enlightened check your hand-luggage to the present and tense shift and touch the world just to the left of here and now to the serious play to the jokers practise silence in an exposed place amongst others to those who advise write your advice down on paper and burn the book happily in winter.   JH

FRIEND Failing to recognize the enemy I got a new friend.....   EJ

VENUS Venus is sleeping less these days meticulously checking for body parts under her bed. Venus is sleeping badly throwing herself from side to side restlessly waking every hour. Venus is going through her memory sorting the boys from the goats checking them for date and teeth marks and signs of any future life. Venus is not speaking much these days she has decided to keep mute and arrange all future love affairs solely via electronic message and the sensuousness of the warm touch-screen.   JH

MY FACE My face has been doing  yesterdays dishes that is why  it is looking  so gray...   EJ

HYPOCRICY thank goodness hypocrisy is still alive and kicking this modernity i wish that you could hear me now but you are not so lucky for you are hills and far away and wrapped in soft brown paper drinking flour and herbal tea and raging at new weather as oceans stride and edge beyond the fragile walls of heaven thank goodness hypocrisy still leads us here and drops us in the wanting so thirst and hunger can prevail and stretch us in our playing.   JH

SMOKE Don´t smoke   Don´t moke in bed   unless you are married   to a fireman   EJ

VULTURE TALK I am very peculiar  about how I like my roadkill:  it has to be run over lenghtwise, - but should be no flatter than a deep- pan pizza   II There has been some years now since my left leg passed away.... And as my arms are now coming to maturity  I decided to start dating again My first date was this handsome size 40  the only thing; - he was just bent on kneeling !   Then there was the Athletes foot he was the sporty kind, but a bit short, so we didn´t really go along Then the hungarian bootleg: hairy and hot tempered:  I stood him up once, and he walked out on me I later discovered he had an affair with one of my arms, - behind my back! feet can be such assholes....   EJ

BOXER the boxer boxes and the swift run fast the joyous tread lightly as each we might all ears welcome all hearts complete all souls singing least we fade and sleep   JH

WATER AND A CIGARETTE water and a cigarette denial and regret image of another life and sex that makes you sweat water and a cigarette calling her to slim I sit and watch and wonder what kind of state she's in. water and a cigarette walking by the pool nervous sadness, way in debt she's hoping to seem cool water and a cigarette comes like flood and fire then revelation slaps her face she's instantly rewired. water and a cigarette covered shoals of grief, epiphany now calms her soul bringing sweet relief.   JH

PARKING SPACE You left me with a parking space a room too small for happiness you were my knight on a white horse heading off in the wrong direction   I have prepared your coffin and a hot bath in which order would you like them?   EJ

home    julyen hamilton   performances   projects   workshops   writings    works    bluedog dvds    books    contact  october 19 20 21 2007 - premiéred at ROM FOR DANS, Danscenen, OSLO, Norway