{"id":66873,"date":"2025-08-01T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66873"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:18:18","slug":"i-close-my-eyes-and-images-rise-up-within-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/i-close-my-eyes-and-images-rise-up-within-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Close My Eyes, and Images Rise Up Within Me"},"content":{"rendered":"Rafael Tavares directs the eurythmy in the 2025 production of Faust at the Goetheanum. A conversation with Wolfgang Held.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWolfgang Held: What did you rehearse today?\n\n\n\nRafael Tavares: We just rehearsed a part of Faust II, the Classical Walpurgis Night scene, when Mephisto encounters the Lamiae, the Greek witches from Thessaly. It\u2019s less about the individual figures than about the space these Greek mythic creatures form around themselves. Mephisto tries to grab them, and they instantly transform their appearance into physicality. That\u2019s what we want to show: that the whole style of movement changes in this moment. At the exact moment of contact, the movement becomes more physical. That\u2019s the tension between drama and eurythmy. Mephisto is horrified by these beings because tran<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Tavares directs the eurythmy in the 2025 production of Faust at the Goetheanum. A conversation with Wolfgang Held. Wolfgang Held: What did you rehearse today? Rafael Tavares: We just rehearsed a part of Faust II, the Classical Walpurgis Night scene, when Mephisto encounters the Lamiae, the Greek witches from Thessaly. It\u2019s less about the individual figures than about the space these Greek mythic creatures form around themselves. Mephisto tries to grab them, and they instantly transform their appearance into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18304,"featured_media":66803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8797,8836,9255],"tags":[11675,8798,11676],"class_list":["post-66873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversation-en","category-eurythmy","category-faust-en","tag-ausgabe-27-28-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-31-32-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}