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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

First up we have the site specific installation “Expecting” by Pipilotti Rist at Centraal Museum in The Netherlands (https://youtu.be/rMF_jfI9tlQ?si=ThRet5GMuAxskNYb)
#LaEsoterica #PipilottiRist

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

And now our feature presentation: “Faust”/“Lekce Faust” (1994) directed by Czechoslovakian artist and animator Jan Švankmajer (https://youtu.be/P4O3fYwYPW0?si=GuG3R6G1Vef0lJyy)
#LaEsoterica #Faust1994 #JanSvankmajer #90smovies #horror #animation

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

Similar to our first ever #LaEsoterica feature “Alice”/“ Něco z Alenky” (1988), “Faust”/“Lekce Faust” (1994) is comprised of a combination of live action acting, puppetry & various forms of animation (stop motion, claymation, etc)
#LaEsoterica #Faust1994 #JanSvankmajer #Alice1988

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Dr. Dani Sanchez

“Faust” (1994) is loosely based on on plays “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Available Here: https://archive.org/details/faustgoethe00goetiala/page/n3/mode/2up) and “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus” by Christopher Marlowe (Availble here: https://archive.org/details/tragicalhistoryo00marl_0), which are based on the German legend.
##LaEsoterica #Faust1994 #JanSvankmajer #Goethe #ChristoperMarlowe

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

Our leading man Czech actor Petr Čepek passed away due to pancreatic cancer a few months after this film was released
#LaEsoterica #Faust1994 #PetrCepek

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

Next up is the “Push Comes to Shove” segment from the 1984 “Baryshnikov by Tharp with American Ballet Theatre” episode of PBS’s “Great Performances” (https://youtu.be/wg8dG_uhezQ?si=Ro0ZaTAQBSgiAZc7)
#LaEsoterica #BaryshnikovByTharp #MikhailBaryshnikov #TwylaTharp #dance

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

This performance originally ran at the American Ballet Theatre in NYC and was a collaboration between American dancer, choreographer, and author Twyla Tharp and Latvian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sorry the video is so crappy, idk why no one has remastered this performance
#LaEsoterica #BaryshnikovByTharp #MikhailBaryshnikov #TwylaTharp #dance

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

Twyla Tharp is now in her mid-80s and Mikhhail Baryshnikov is now 77. They both continue to work, teach and perform.
#LaEsoterica #BaryshnikovByTharp #MikhailBaryshnikov #TwylaTharp #dance

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Sep 2, 2025

Our final art installation is “Gravity”. This site specific kinetic light projection is by French artist and musician Yann Nguema ((https://youtu.be/e-qVhGEmIbE?si=zfihfzzMa6ogjZFm) and it utilizes the combination of light projections, intricate computer programming, music (composed by Nguema) and the space of Colmar, France’s 14th century, Gothic-style church Église Saint-Martin.
#LaEsoterica #YannNguema #art