Total Fictional Lie

Inspired by the gestural and verbal haplessness of documentary-film subjects, Total Fictional Lie is a reeling conglomeration of speech and dance that, like a piece of music, makes a formally coherent, intuitive kind of sense. ERS’s eighth original piece, Total Fictional Lie is an absurdist and dance-heavy look at sales and marketing. The show’s speeches and dialogue are taken verbatim from some famous and not-so-famous documentary films and its choreography developed from the awkwardly presentational body language of the films’ camera-shy subjects.