Haus der Kunst München °°° ECHOES - 30.01.2025

In the Shadow of Forward Motion

Layton Lachman 

Performed with: Dan Immanuel Roth

As an invocation to our ability to shift identities into, out of, beyond and within, we dance in known ways and weird ways. We burrow in, getting under the skin of transformation, digging for the ways trauma and joy shift identity. What happens when you are intimate with the stranger of your own body? What emerges when we embrace the enigmatic? In this work, the self is not static — it is a shifting cast of characters, moving through a dynamic landscape, searching for, but never finding a resting place. Indeed, what seems clear turns out to be mirage. Pronouncements and language become awkward, the body turns inside out.

Created in collaboration with: 

Dan Immanuel Roth & Layton Lachman - Costume & Scenography

Samuel Hertz - Sound 

emeka ene - Text 

Arta de Mi - Light 

Ethan Folk & Caitlin Berrigan - Video

Nattan Dobkin - Dramaturgy 

Nagi Gianni - Mask

Jack Randol - Textile

Commissioned in cooperation by Haus der Kunst München, Goethe Institute London