Lithium Faust
2021, Light and Sound Machine
team:
Direction: Jonathan Uliel Saldanha; Lighting design: Letícia Skryky; Light assistant: Santiago Tricot; Sound design: José Arantes; Additional sound design: Francisco Antão; 3D image: AALTAR System; Additional dramaturgy: Catarina Miranda; Executive producer: Joaquim Durães; Production: SOOPA; Co-production: Teatro Municipal do Porto; Support: Direção Geral das Artes
In Lithium Faust, no human performers take the stage. Instead, the black box itself becomes the protagonist—a sentient mechanism orchestrating a choreography of light, multichannel sound, and smoke. Stage and theater machinery, normally hidden, emerge as active agents, animating a dissociative, ever-shifting landscape. Inspired by satellite constellations and vertical architectures, this is a machinic dance where perception is fractured, and the stage becomes a living organism.
