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There’s about two seconds of grainy footage of me slow-dancing with Julie Tolentino. There’s about two seconds of grainy footage of me slow-dancing with Julie Tolentino in an edited showreel documenting perfor­mances at Visions of Excess at the Vaults—a now defunct vast series of spaces set in the underbelly of tunnels beneath London Bridge station. It was late into the night of Sunday 12th April 2009, before or after I’d suckled at Samantha Sweeting’s fabricated nipples for her performance La Nourrice, Come Drink from me My Darling, watched Franko B sit swing­ing for I’m Thinking of You and witnessed the always entrancing David Hoyle compere the evening’s delights. This one-to-one performance by Tolentino is called A True Story About Two People and here we are cap­tured mid dance. I watch the excerpt again and again; it’s nearly ten years later and I’d lost some details. My left and her right hands have opened to allow our digits to intertwine. My right hand is gently holding her left side. Her left hand is resting on my shoulder. She wears a piece of material that blindfolds her eyes. Out of shot I remember our feet are naked, toes nestled in blades of grass lain beneath our feet. A booth with mirrored panels frames the parameter of our shared space. It’s a small space, requir­ing closeness. Being inside makes invisible those festival-goers passing by or watching from the outside. We are on our own but not alone. Her head is dipping slightly—she’s been dancing for over twelve hours—but mine is raised, a little taut, aware of witnesses to our strange duet.