Subject: Get Your Sandwich Out Of My Inbox
Dear [Recipient],
I hope this email finds you,
in a surreal corporate utopia
following two existential office colleagues.
Picture Bliss, Microsoft XP's default wallpaper
a serene backdrop to the looming urgency
of capitalist contribution via
email efficiency,
midday meetings,
yogurt-pot lunchtimes,
memories stored on the cloud,
espresso breaks with your work-wife (I cc'd them in),
compulsory trips to the wellness room,
hustle, grind, and at my desk 9-9.
Please RSVP to
reinvent your reputation,
climb to the cloud.
Regards,
Natasha, Weichu and Brittany
Get Your Sandwich Out Of My Inbox is Dance Plant Collective's latest work, a duet featuring Tāmaki Makaurau based contemporary dance artists Natasha Kohler and Weichu Huang.
Choreographer: Brittany Kohler
Choreographic Collaborators & Performers: Weichu Huang, Natasha Kohler
Costumes: YOHOZO
Company: Dance Plant Collective
Dance Plant Collective is a contemporary dance-theatre company based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Our vision is to create politically challenging and transformative performance work and the roots of our practice are planted in a desire to nurture community, honour the body as a locus of understanding and uphold the interconnectedness of all things. Dance Plant's work involves collaborative full-length shows such as 'Rituals of Similarity', 'STRUCTURE', 'Magnificent Remains' and 'MEAT', and site-specific works for Whangārei Fringe Festival (A Floating Duet), LUMA Festival and Auckland Arts Festival.
Brittany Kohler is a co-director of Dance Plant Collective, and a freelance choreographer and performer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. A graduate of Unitec Dance, Brittany strives to uncover potent subtleties within our everyday lives through choreography, and is driven by the revealing magic of live-choreography and improvisation. Brittany's works include 'Rituals of Similarity', 'Magnificent Remains' and site-specific work 'A Floating Duet'.
Weichu Huang is a Chinese dancer, artist and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating in 2021 with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance), they have been working primarily in film, with their short film Supernova (2023, directed by Flora Xie) being shortlisted for multiple national and international festivals. Most recently, they have collaborated with Xin Ji for All My Friends’ New Gold Mountain, which was exhibited at Studio One Toi Tū in August 2024. Weichu is interested in creating work that exists at the junction of dance and broader artistic disciplines.
Natasha is an independent contemporary dancer & choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She began as a co-founder of Dance Plant Collective following her contemporary dance degree in 2016. Natasha is interested in multi-disciplinary dance investigation and is passionate
about using movement as a tool for inspiring growth, self discovery & reflection and to initiate positive change in our current world climate. Natasha has had her choreographic and
performance work presented within New Zealand and abroad and premiered her most recent work, a dance duet 'Rituals of Similarity' with her twin sister Brittany at Q Theatre's Matchbox Season in August 2023.
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Inspired by the TV show Severance, and the corporate world that is so alien to Brittany, Get Your Sandwich Out Of My Inbox began during Dance Plant Collective's residency at the inaugural Pōneke Festival of Contemporary Dance in July 2024, where they had one full week to begin finding the world and crafting its bones.
Dance Plant is grateful to have received development support from The Peacocke Dance Trust to go ahead with a second rehearsal period in Tāmaki leading up to the Pōneke Festival in July 2025, where the work will premiere.
For more Dance Plant Collective work, visit www.danceplantcollective.com or @danceplantcollective on Instagra
