Photo © Thomas Aurin

The West

Von Constanza Macras

There will be an audience discussion after the performance.

The West develops fictional worlds that deal with cultural imperialism and questions the means of constructing visual landscapes, which have shaped the socio-economic relationships between the Global South, the East and the West to this day. Exoticism emerges as a projection of Western wishful thinking and as an aesthetic exploitation of the foreign in the empire of Western mass cultures. The American socialization of Latin America was at its peak between the 1970s and the 1980s. Film and television served as powerful propaganda instruments to project a certain world view directed against the communist East: from Wonder Woman to today’s Homeland, these series were suitable for the dissemination of American strategies and ideologies. Besides, working through the cracks of lesser good was a way to show us that if something was falling in the category of bad by the good ones, it was always for a greater good.

The West draws a performative study of Western strategies of occupation, reflects didactic methods of cultural imperialism, and takes a look at Western societies as the dream factory of artificial authenticity.

German and English with English and German surtitles

A coproduction with Constanza Macras | DorkyPark

With
Candaş Bas, Adaya Berkovich, Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Kostia Chaix,, Fernanda Farah, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Daisy Phillips, Miki Shoji, Bastian Trost
Live Music
Almut Lustig, Katrin Schüler-Springorum
regie-choreographie
Constanza Macras
Stage Design
Alissa Kolbusch
Costume Design
Roman Handt
Lighting
Sergio de Cavalho Pessanha
Sound
Jörg Wilkendorf, Tobias Gringel
Video
Nicolas Keil
Dramaturgy
Carmen Mehnert
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