Reflections of the end
Thursday, August 27th, 2009After a successful preview of the Wallstories we are getting ready for the premiere in October in Washington, DC. I am working on the last three sections and the last part is always the hardest. What do you want the audience go away with? The piece includes stories of people who lived through with the Wall from East and West side. I am not trying to judge or separate or say this was good or that was bad. I am trying to make people feel and think and question listening to various perspectives. At the moment I am also working on including my own memory into the piece and one of my early memories was when I was 8 years old: My father took me to the wall and told me about a young boy who got shot trying to jump over the wall from the East side to the West. He told me never to try that myself. I was shocked to hear it and later when I was older I found out who that boy was. It was Peter Fechter. The last victim was Chris Gueffroy who tried to escape in February of ’89. It’s strange to think about it. If he just had waited 8 more month he would have been free to walk to the other side and probably still alive. Life is strange: should you act or wait for something to happen? Is it worth the fight? What would you have done? I never thought about it before but now going back memory lane it all comes back.
This week I also want to share images of the performance taken by photographer Yi-Chun Wu. Please, enjoy.
