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In addition to dispensing his ritual counsel to attendees at various public events, The Derrière Garde sometimes presents more elaborate performances, usually based on texts that he has created. Links to those texts (offered in the form of pdf files) appear below, along with the places and dates on their performances by TDG. Click on the title of the piece for the file.

• Fondue Dada
  • ETG Book Café (208 Bay Street, Staten Island), Saturday, November 11, 2006. With The Sepoy Rebellion. World premiere.
  • Martini Red (372 Van Duzer St., Staten Island), Saturday, April 14, 2007. (Second world premiere.*)
• Humorisqué (after Antonin Dvorak)
  • NYC Arts Cypher (12 Broad St., Staten Island), Saturday, April 1, 2006. With The Sepoy Rebellion, plus musical accompaniment by Allergic to B's. World premiere.
• My Art Belongs to Dada
  • ETG Book Café (208 Bay Street, Staten Island), Saturday, June 3, 2006. With musical accompaniment by Allergic to B's. World premiere. Click here for performance stills.
• No More Aleutians!
  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center (1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY), Saturday June 11, 2005. With The Sepoy Rebellion. World premiere.
  • NYC Arts Cypher (12 Broad St., Staten Island), Saturday, April 1, 2006. (Second world premiere.*)
  • ETG Book Café (208 Bay Street, Staten Island), Saturday, October 8, 2006. (Third world premiere.*)
• Spirit of the Staircase/L'esprit d'escalier
  • ETG Book Café (208 Bay Street, Staten Island), Saturday, July 8, 2006. World premiere.
  • Le Petit Versailles (346 East Houston St. at Avenue C, Manhattan, NY), Saturday, July 15, 2006. (Second world premiere.*)
  • Unitarian Church of Staten Island (312 Fillmore St., Staten Island), Friday, May 18, 2007. (Third world premiere.*)
  • ETG Book Café (208 Bay Street, Staten Island), Saturday, July 14, 2007. (Command repeat performance.)

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* The Derrière Garde does not subscribe to the bourgeois belief in a single "world premiere" for an event or act. If you can't step in the same river twice, then you can't stage and event or perform an action in the same river twice. Thus TDG actions may have multiple world premieres, as indicated.