Giants. A journey without end

“Your shadow is your personal shape, your silent companion, your own flat echo. It's worse than your ego, it's your creep — always just there. In the mythology of shadow, the devil can snip yours from your feet and make off with it, but if he takes it away, you miss it terribly. In a way, then, isn't your shadow kind of like your subjectivity?” — Amy Sillman

Don Quixote embarks on a journey to seek love that is absolute and completely fulfilling.

On stage, two dancers encounter each other in intimate gestures, touching, caressing, and hurting each other. Movement, gestures, and fragments of text intersect, overlap, and interweave, yet never fully agree. Giants references feminist icons Kathy Acker and Monique Wittig, Cervantes' classic Don Quixote, 500-year-old midwifery books, and very personal experiences, woven together into a shadow play which in turn is transferred into a video installation.

A project by Lena Appel in collaboration with Leonie Chima Emeka, Louisa Behr, Aisling Hayes, annu koetter, Maria Moritz, Carla Renée Loose, Nikki Buzzi, John Hussain Flindt, Rachel Ashton