A radical reinterpretation of H.C. Andersen's fairy tale "The Red Shoes", staged as animation theatre with lifelike humanoid robots that perform autonomously, with no live human performers on stage. Androids, video-animated scenography and neoclassical electronica explore our tendency to bring "dead" things to life and to be seduced by imitated life.
The piece is the second part of the robot trilogy ANIMA MACHINA. It is a grotesque, horror-tinged take on a young girl's emerging sense of identity, and it pulls the story into the present, opening up dilemmas around gender, power and desire. Ninna Steen and Thomas Hejlesen devised, directed and designed it, with music by Peter Kyed and narration by Nicolas Bro.
