What She Saw in The Loteria Cards
Maria Garcia Teutsch’s multi-media journey, What She Saw in the Loteria Cards, which she also directs and performs in, makes quite the feat unpacking themes of death, love and memory in a most unique way. The piece is a multi-dimensional ritual tapping into the power of imagery, icons (Ginsberg), myth, poetry and performance and like a shaman would do, she works her magic synthesizing all these elements, creating an alchemy which leaves the viewer transformed. The journey we go on is both mysterious and accessible. We are introduced (and crucially) to Day of the Dead customs the Berlin audience may be far removed from, through myth we’re taken to our primitive impulses and the lurking bits of our unconscious wanting to be tapped and we’re able to go there only because we have the container, this artfully structured ritual, to feel safe enough to do so. It is refreshing, enlivening and magical all at once. Danielle Benvenuto
What She Saw in the Lotería Cards
Poetic Ritual Theater in One Act
written by: Maria Garcia Teutsch
@marialoveswords
Come join us for an evening of fast theatre. Each scene is filled with images challenging any kind of proscribed reality by revealing its absurd bits through poetry, performance, music, art and dance. This collaborative project was hatched in the brain of Maria Garcia taking as her inspiration the Lotería cards she played with as a child. Día de los Muertos is the locus for these meditations on death, love, memory, and mythology as histories both personal and universal are entwined and unraveled. The entire performance is part ritual, part provocation, part procession, which takes the audience on a journey from the known to the perhaps unknowable parts of our collective psyche where we will meet to join forces on the astral plane in a chant for peace.
What She Saw in the Lotería Cards
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“I feel death in me, occasionally,” by Michaella Toscano
“Death’s Daughter,” by Uahuu Tujendapi
El Cantante/The Singer: Sara Shedden-Casanovas
Cinepoem: ReVoSkY: Ambrose Bye, Natalia Gaia, M. Garcia Teutsch
2 November 2023
doors open at 18:00 Uhr/6:00 PM, The Show starts at 20:00/8:00 PM
Galerie Z22
Zähringerstraße 22
10707 Berlin
Altar/Ofrenda to the Beat Poets: Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Joanne Kyger with mementos from their friends…
Photography by Allen Ginsberg
Theater, music, film, and poetry makes for much mayhem…more details to follow
Special thanks to:
Michael Willis for the creation of the Lotería Cards and graphics
Maquillaje y diseño: Greta Ciubuc Szabo
Sastre de teatro: Sara Matarozzi
El Técnico: Aris Pedrioli
