THE BUGCHASERS
Dancetheater by Octavio Campos
Inspired by the Slap and Tickle Show, Susan Sontag and www.bareback.com.

World Premier: October 25, 2007 - Carnival Center of the Performing Arts - Studio Theater

Presented and co-commissioned by Miami Dade College, The Center for Cultural Collaborations International,
Arsht Center of the Performing Arts, and Camposition.

Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Maloney, Ron Headrick, Octavio Campos, Matt Glass & Joshua Nardi

Sex is different now. There are new questions. And lies.

The Bugchasers is an evening-length performance that explores the nature of desire in a marginalized world where new forms of communication and a raught sexual epidemiology have altered the experience of intimacy.   Bugchasers are young men who compulsively seek to become HIV positive, eroticizing risk in a game of viral Russian roulette where the shared bond of a communicable disease substitutes for love.

The Bugchasers incorporates theater, dance, music and video to ask whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation. It is a story of accelerated love in our time.

Who is that person on the other side of the mattress? How can you be sure?

WARNING: This performance is not recommended for a first date.