Down Time Jaz is a fantastical portrait of a family of dancers, trapped inside their image of themselves as living out a public performance. They are watched anxiously through their windows until a new child arrives to break their 'routine'. She sees them as a 'family of genies suffocating in a bottle', and decides to 'nstop the cord and let the air in and the dance out'. This frees them to flights of kinetic fantasy and adventure, but ultimately it all becomes too much. Her new task is then to find 'a home, where, at the end of the day, we can all sleep happily' - thus liberating the dancers from their need to always be on display and allow them to relax into the loving interaction of family life.