In the more structured work of planning our big event in January Spenser has been up to covering his bases with regards to the party as well as the structure and flow of the show with a little plan that he calls the "in-betweens". These will be the fillers that happen in between pieces when dancers, sets and lighting need to change for the next piece. He has been asking choreographers to write blurbs about the experience of creating their piece or simply just about the act of creating. Spenser is well admired for the text he wrote for NDT 2's piece Cacti as well as his fabulous M.C.ing job at last year's company Christmas cabaret. We're all looking forward to see what the creative and clever Spenser has in mind for us and how he will put things together.
As for the party he has organized to have D.J. Veronika Reithmeier play and sees the whole thing as an opportunity to bring some night life to Den Haag while celebrating all of the hard work involved in Switch.
In addition to all this Spenser is also making his own work for the performance. When I last spoke to him about his creation he described it as a blossoming bud of an exploration on the idea of duplication and the question of - When does something duplicated transform into something individual? He will use text again as he did last year and has been doing a lot of writing and studio experimentation to go towards the process of making his piece.
