RheumaView™ Insights · Monkey Dance Series · Part V · Original short film · 0:31
After the Dutch wooden-clog disaster, the company promised a quieter show. The next booking was Irish step dancing. You can see where this is going.
After the wooden-clog catastrophe in Holland, the Monkey Dance Company issued a solemn promise: the next production would be quiet.
It booked Irish step dancing. The employee responsible has since been transferred to the percussion section.
At 8:01, two pints of stout were sitting peacefully on the bar. At 8:02, a golden-maned tamarin appeared between them and began dancing. Her arms remained perfectly still. Her legs had clearly staged a coup.
By 8:03, musicians were playing, another tamarin had turned the bar into a runway, and an entire chorus line in green was advancing across the pub. Nobody knew where they came from. Nobody was volunteering to stop them.
Near the fireplace, two dancers performed a duet with such innocent expressions that the landlord briefly wondered whether the floorboards were making the noise themselves.
The bartender shouted, “Last orders!”
The dancers heard, “Last chorus!”
The stout remained upright. The fireplace survived. The pub, according to the carpenter, had shifted two inches toward County Cork.
At closing time, a handwritten notice appeared on the door:
CLOSED FOR FLOOR REPAIRS. THE TAMARINS STILL HAVE THE KEYS.
Film and essay: Olga Goodman, MD · RheumaView™. Fictional AI-created animal performance, not footage of real animals or an instructional demonstration of Irish step dancing.
Previously in the Monkey Dance Series: Going Dutch: The Punchline Wears Wooden Shoes · The New Artistic Director Has a Tail · The Monkeys Are Back.