where do we go when the glass shatters

This is choreography in a book.

A score and a fantasy.

A second skin that grows from what has once (twice) been danced, leaving scars between the page and the body.

It follows the research conducted in 2023/24 by Zrinka Užbinec and Silvio Vujičić, reimagining the choreography of Dolls and Goats through the perspective of its own skin. This research produced the glass tiles as a score for Dolls and Goats and for this book.

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Would you like to see what happens when matter is poked, pushed, set into dance, challenged?

Ah yes, that matter includes vampire stories.

The text cards are written in duet, in exchange, in slow decay and constant micro-changes.
There are 64 of them.

The glass pieces were assembled slowly, day by day, at the same table, so they would not fall apart, so they would not slip from our hands.
(We still need them for dancing.)

The shared arrangement of whiteness, words and textures composes a choreography on paper.
It creates disturbances in the eye and in the flow.
It writes bodily sensations.
It writes facts.
It writes fiction.
It disappears.

Turning the pages slowly gathers scattered glass, twists the skin, hides the reflection, touches at a distance, mirrors the text and love, feels the dance, invites:

. to look through the window regularly
. to record yourself dancing in glass
. to tap on hard surfaces
. to tell a scary story but a true one
. to stroke a fingernail that does not belong to you
. to not see yourself in the mirror
. to keep a piece of (your?) human skin
. forever
. somewhere
. to .