C1
Duration: 00:56
Opening of "Closer Than Skin." A moment of communion called "In the club."
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet, Maria Earle, Cynthia Oliver.
Aaron Davis Hall, 2006.

C2
Duration: 06:21
Trembling." Oliver is battered by unexpected words of offense. They reverberate through her body as she tries to shake them off.
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet, Maria Earle, Cynthia Oliver.
Aaron Davis Hall, 2006.

C3
Duration: 01:19
"Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy," a quiet moment of women at a kitchen table reminiscent of a Carrie Mae Weems portrait. A "in-between" moment in "Closer Than Skin."
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet and Maria Earle.

C4
Duration: 02:58
"Lessons in Female Etiquette."
Performer Leslie Cuyjet.

C5
Duration: 03:31
"Place the Hands and Lean Backwards," a section of the solo "Lessons in Female Etiquette."
Performer: Leslie Cuyjet.

C6 & 7
Duration: 01:52
"(In)appropriate Questions, a section of Closer Than Skin where the questions asked are those very ones no one wants to answer.
Performers: Maria Earle and Cynthia Oliver.

C9
Duration: 03:03
Maria Earle loses herself and returns as she summons goddesses to her side in a section of "because she was", a part of Closer Than Skin.

C12
Duration: 06:25
Closer Than Skin group section called ":Beseeching on Your Own Behalf." The women ponder theirs and others' secrets as they manipulate their girlhood dolls.
Performers: Cuyjet, Earle, Oliver.

C13
Duration: 04:51
Continuation of "Beseeching," the drumming section.

because she was
Duration: 05:26
"because she was," a solo made from evening length work SHEMAD. In a pre-possession moment Oliver embodies the multiple chatter of women talking with and about each other in an island community.
Performer: Oliver. The Kitchen, 2001.