During the European winter semester 2009/2010, Maricel Alvarez and Emilio García Wehbi were guest lecturers at Freie Universität Berlin’s Institute for Theater Studies. They offered a seminar entitled “Ich bin die Wunde und das Messer” (‘I’m the wound and the knife’). The program proposed a crossroad concept between contemporary dance, theater, music and visual arts aiming to develop a performatic project triggered by a literary source. Gertrude Stein’s "Dr. Faustus lights the lights" was the text chosen to structure a dialogue among the mentioned disciplines. After four months of intense discussion and research, the final phase of the experiment consisted in staging the results of the intellectual production. On January 28, 2010, the performance "Red light for Dr. Faustus" was premiered in the historic Akademie der Künste, under Maricel Alvarez and Emilio García Wehbi’s general direction in front of a large audience.

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Intérpretes
Angela Alves
Elena Basteri
Olga Bogorodskaya
Mariama Diagne
Elke Espert
Katharina Haverich
Maritta Horwath
Julia Pohlisch
Eva Siegel

Autor del texto
Gertrude Stein
Producción
D.A.A.D.
Música
Nurse With Wound
Diseño Espacial y Sonoro, Vestuario, Iluminación y Dirección
Maricel Alvarez
Emilio Garcia Wehbi

Blackbox, Akademie der Kunst, Berlín, Alemania, 2010.

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