Heavyweight Champions

Created for Switch by NDT dancers. Premiered at Amare, 2023

PERFORMED BY
Scott Fowler and Genevieve O’Keeffe

MUSIC
Bakehouse 30/6, Third Space. Waveland, Noam Pikelny.

LIGHT
Koos Planken

COSTUMES
Fay van Baar

video: Harmen Straatman

We carry what we cannot name,
The Heavyweight champions we are.
Passing it back and forth,
Who holds it now?
One takes it,
The other breathes,
A song of shifting weight.
And then it’s gone…
We don’t know where,
or how it slipped away.
All we know is,
we are now
champions of weight.