Don’t Go for Second Best, Baby! is a choreography of support and emergence. Backup dancing is about bodies exercising their relation to the centre, to one another and to choreography understood as a shared, spontaneous plan. This dance is made collectively out of many intersecting monologues yet its principle is accompaniment. What does it mean to accompany when the centre is missing? How do we practice companionship through dance or take care of another person’s dance? This work approaches improvisation as a strategy of resistance against the politics of command and hierarchies. Bodies moving in the background insist on dance’s ability to create formats of being and thinking which extend beyond the periphery.