The performance of 33 Desires incorporates task-oriented choreography with a soloist manipulating a large swath of white paper. Later crumpling up smaller sheets of paper, the figure begins to refer to writing and editing, which later, becomes a metaphor for the futile attempt of attaining one's desires. Video projections appear on these various surfaces -- the moving paper as well as clipboards hanging from the air. This leads up to a monologue of a simple list of poignant, personal, and also, mundane desires.
A three-channel video version of the work captures writing and re-writing, as a metaphor for the act of desiring – the way in which as soon as one ‘wants’ something, regardless of whether it comes to fruition or not, the want gives way to another desire. This videos moves from an intimate desire between two female bodies to the gesture of gift-giving, with the wrapping of a small box with the same white paper in which the wants appeared. The video plays between these three images to articulate the push and pull of wanting and not wanting, desiring and letting go. An excerpt here:
