A co-consumption in five courses.

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For 90 minutes, the three couples fed one another as Jemma described the courses and traced the arc of attachment.

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“Pull a small piece of bread from the loaf, and dip the bread into the broth. Let the bread take in the broth like a sponge. When the bread is full, offer it to your partner’s lips.”

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“You don’t like the phrase, she is my other half. It makes it sound like one person can complete another. Fill in the gaps. As if there is something lacking. As if there’s only a finite person to become.”

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For this performance, each course was designed to be fed by one person to another using only their hands. Cosmophage created and rehearsed a series of ‘feeding gestures,’ with the participants: a choreography that felt at moments generous, playful, sensual or grueling.

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