[Performance. Much is left to the performers. It is scored
for two speakers but if necessary they may be combined as one voice.]
Voice 1: Your
existence is extremely unlikely.
The dancer makes a disjunctive series of wild hand
gestures. Their facial expression does not match the gestures. Gestures and
expressions do not exchange at the same moment.
Voice 1: Behaviour
is hard to witness objectively and harder still to interpret.
Something of a mad dance.
Voice 2: If
it's cancer; and if it gets worse, then I shall die.
Dancer, standing straight upright, takes a step or two
forward, and then dives over an imaginary line at the height of their belly;
and, reaching the ground, rolls and ascends until they are standing straight
again. Then they take a step or two backwards.
Voice 1: It's
a new magician's trick.
Dancer flaps their arms as if hoping to fly, rising on their
toes, wobbling, perhaps staggering forward.
Voice 2: Everyone
experienced the placebo effect.
Voice 1: Very
few animals have been reported to throw things at one another.
Dancer picks up invisible objects and throws them at
invisible moving targets.
Voice 2: In
the near future, you may have to share the road with a robot.
'Robot' dance.
Voice 1: Feel
limited.
Dancer seemingly has no room for movement; but still they
dance somewhat.
Voice 2: Human
skill has always been part of a process.
Animated dancer, lightly touching the surface of the
performance area as if, perhaps, water and they a temporarily alighting insect,
legs spread at an acute angle so as not to sink.
Voice 1: There
might be merits to keeping things simple.
Dancer walks about with a minimal show of visible effort.
Et cetera.
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