Psyche und Amor - 05.03.2012

Performerin: Valeria Germain

In einer sehr persönlichen Performance zum Thema Liebe griff Valeria viele Themen aus dem römischen Märchen "Amor und Psyche" (s.u.) auf und schuf einen sehr unterhaltsamen Bilderbogen der Liebe.

Hier die ursprüngliche Ankündigung des Abends:

The old Roman Märchen of Cupid and Psyche will be improvised on for drawing images of Psyche. 

Psyche amuses herself with her sisters. Because of her beauty she is being praised instead of Venus. Venus gets furious, and decides that Psyche should be punished by marrying an ugly satyr. Amor recognizes Psyche, who waits sadly on the top of a hill, and fells in love with her, instead of sending her an ugly spirit. The wind Zephyros carries her down the valley into a beautiful palace. 

 At night, Amor appeared and became her lover, under the condition that she is not allowed to find out who he is and how he looks like. Psyche falls happily in love with amor, even though she stays with him only at night without seeing his true face. Because she feels bored during the day, her friend, the western wind Zephyros, enables Psyche to talk with her sisters. Her jealous sisters trie to convice her that Amor is a snake which swallows her unborn child in her womb. Frightened and angry she takes a candle and a knife and creeps to the bed in which Amor is sleeping. Recognizing the beauty of Amor, she is shocked, and therefore a drop of wax drips on his shoulder, which wakes him up.

The disunion is unavoidable, because Psyche has spoiled the arrangement never to look at him. Amor disappears. Full of distress Psyche meanders around, always searching for her lost love.

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