“I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under rocks, to see what the insects were doing,” says costumer Liz Vandal, whose first assignment for Cirque du Soleil is Ovo, a show about the insect universe.
“I educated myself on how useful the insects were,” Vandal explains. “I wanted to know how they survived, and I grew to understand how without humans, the world would be better” for insects.
Vandal says Ovo’s first challenge was to “evoke” the world of insects from their point of view, trying to imagine, say, what a spider looks like to other spiders. “This was a challenge because that’s not the way we think, and knowing insects the way I did, of course I wanted to put on wings and antennae. Then sometimes I chose not to. How do you evoke a cockroach? Being human, you say, uuugggh, they’re so ugly, but if you’re a cockroach, you say, ‘Hey, look at the abdomen on that guy.’?”
The other challenges? Read the the original article to find out.
{ SOURCE: LA Weekly }
