Don’t Ever Stop is a comment on negligence in interpersonal relationships. It explores how mundane actions can foreshadow the escalating and cyclical nature of coercive control and challenges a normative assumption that relationships are intrinsically safe.

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This work was part of the 600 Seconds program at The Blue Room Theatre in 2017. This platform gives artists an opportunity to test new live performance ideas in 10 minutes or less. 

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Playing with the idea that movement in this piece melts into disintegration, the audience glimpses a banal everyday moment. This moment repeats word for word hinting at control and abuse. Both parties seem guilty and flawed. We skip to a police interview room and simultaneously witness how one event is presented from two perspectives. By showing the beginning of this relationship's descent and the aftermath, while only glancing at the distant starting points of violence, we ask questions about what abuse is and where it begins. At what point do our emotions endanger others? At what point does our desire to appease become enabling?