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(2000, Quartet. 15 minutes)

“An exploration of intimacy, the darker aspects, particularly the way you sometimes behave around the people you are closest to. You bring a part of yourself to them that you don't show to others, and it's not always a pretty picture. You wonder, how much can I get away with, how far can I push?” – Keely Garfield

Kaleidoscopic activity fuels this Fellini-esque, erotically-charged and badly-behaved quartet.

After the circus, we come back downtown
you’re still not happy though, your face wears a frown.
Familiar I am, yet you veer away
once we are home, I rub you the wrong way.
–Keely Garfield

“Suggests the four lovers from Midsummer Night's Dream minus decorum…Shiny with wit but stoked with rage." The Village Voice

“Garfield draws the audience into a bizarre setting reminiscent of a Fellini film…it’s an uncomfortable world through which an erotic undercurrent runs.” Time Out New York

Premiere: Playhouse 91 (New York, NY), March 16, 2000
Commissioned by the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project New Works in Dance Fund and supported with a space grant from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, as well as generous funding from the Jerome Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Live Music for Dance Program of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, administered by the American Music Center, and a commission from Dance Theater Workshop’s Bessie Schönberg/First Light Program.