Despite all this Switch choreographers have been committed to their projects, busy conceptualizing, researching and rehearsing. I was able to speak with a couple of them about their ideas and processes.
Menghan did his photo shoot with our photographer Patricia in the Vondel Park in Amsterdam on NDT 1's free day. Despite the typical rainy dutch weather it was a success with dancer and subject matter Sarah Reynolds braving the shoot in a summer dress....
Menghan describes his piece as being about relationships between people, the "shadow" side of our selves, and the question of which side of ourselves it is that determines our direction in life. He is currently working to organize adequate rehearsal time with his dancers Sarah, Roger, Anna and Georgi. Menghan is also developing his lighting scheme around the challenge that a show, such as Switch, with so many pieces poses.
Georgi and Lydia are creating a piece together and were happy to give me the below blurb as a comment about their work. They have already gotten into their process with dancers Bastien, Celia, Cesar, and Heather. Apparently they will both also make brief appearances in their work and have also given us the below photo as more mysterious food for thought about their piece.
"For most of their lives fungi remain hidden inside rotting wood or in the soil only making appearances with structures such as mushrooms and puffballs when it is time to reproduce.
Fungi are decomposers quickly invading fallen trees and dead animals.
This situation can take place in our human world, if we pay careful attention."
- the Georgi and Lydia team.
