The Woman who Lit the World (The Tesla project)

The Woman who Lit the World is a story about an old and a new genius, both obsessed with electricity.

The performance is part of the Tesla project which also includes Thunderstruck, Alternating Currents and the Spectrophilia festival.

For a long time, the choreographer Stina Nyberg has been walking in the footsteps of the inventor Nikola Tesla; gathering stories, technologies and myths about the vibrant history of the wireless. In The Woman Who Lit The World she tells the story of how she came to visit Tesla’s private library in Belgrade, have her photo taken in Tesla’s room at the Hotel New Yorker, get a hug from the boss of the Tesla Science Center on Long Island, tried to break in into the remaining building of the legendary Adam’s Power Plant in Niagara Falls, failed to build a tiny tesla coil at the maker space Fat Cat Fat Lab in Greenwich Village, danced with a Tesla coil in the barn of a Danish foot therapist, mastered the art of the remote control and finally stopped doubting the magic of electricity. Step by step, she realizes how the story of the genius turns into a story about herself.