Gießen

The jungle is fascinating. The jungle is beautiful, mysterious, and exhausting. The jungle is dangerous; swamps lurk here, labyrinths, rabbit holes from which one can barely escape by one's own strength. And creatures that embrace and caress you, but suddenly tense their muscles and squeeze: constrictors, anacondas. Reut Shemesh sends the dance ensemble of the Stadttheater Gießen into the jungle of social media, into the self-promotion and self-curation that characterize platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. You present yourself, you show what you have, then you are judged, and afterward you have to somehow deal with the amount of lookism, ableism, and body shaming that is heaped on you. Shemesh is interested in uniforms and norms, something she has already explored in previous ...