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17. – 18.
FEB
2023
LIGIA LEWIS
A Plot / A Scandal
© Moritz Freudenberg
A plot exposed, a foul deed enacted invites scandal. In the spirit of revolution or romantic musings, scandals provoke an imagining of the impossible. Utopian or mundane, how might scandal reveal what lies unwittingly close to our fantasies? And how does it expose where society places its limits? If life is a scandal waiting to be plotted, how do we position ourselves within its matrix? Immoral and lacking propriety, scandals are incidents where fantasy and pleasure take center stage. Guided by the questions of whom this pleasure is for and at what expense, Lewis’s new plot explores the stage where scandals abound.
Weaving together historical, anecdotal, political, and mythical narratives − ranging from an interest in the Enlightenment thinker John Locke, Maria Olofa (Wolofa) in the slave revolt of Santo Domingo in 1521, Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, and Lewis’s great grandmother, a figure Lewis turns to within her plot as a guide of resistance − the choreographer constructs the poetics of refusal at the edges of representation. A dance between affect and embodiment, seeing and being seen, A Plot / A Scandal is a scene in the making where the excitement for that which does not fit might find its place.
Time
19:30–20:40
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
70 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
In englischer Sprache
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Artist Bio
Ligia Lewis
works as a choreographer and dancer. Lewis’s works, often marked by expressions of physical intensity and humour, seek to animate subjects through physical forms of expression that disrupt normative conceptions of the body while negotiating the ghostly traces of history, memory, and the unknown. Through choreography, she develops expressive concepts that give form to movements, speech, affects, thoughts, relations, utterances, and the bodies that hold them. She is the recipient of the Tabori Award in the category of Distinction, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants Award, and a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. Lewis recently finished works including A Plot / A Scandal (2022), Still Not Still (2021), deader than dead (film and live performance, 2020), the trilogy including Water Will (in Melody) (2018), minor matter (2016), and Sorrow Swag (2014). Her most recent works shown at TQW were Still not Still and Sensation 1. ligialewis.com -
Credits
Konzept, Choreografie, künstlerische Leitung, Text
Ligia LewisPerformance
Ligia LewisAssistenz Choreografie, Performance
Corey Scott-Gilbert, Justin KennedyRecherche, Dramaturgie
Sarah Lewis-CappellariRecherche
Michael TsouloukidseLichtdesign, technische Leitung
Joseph WegmannMusikalische Komposition, Sounddesign
George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow, Wynne BennettVoiceover
George Lewis Jr AKA Twin ShadowTon
Manuel Pessoa de LimaBühnenbild
Ligia LewisKostüme
SADAKBühnentechnik
Şenol ŞentürkProduktion, Administration
Sina KießlingProduktion, Distribution
Nicole SchuchardtProduktionsassistenz
Julia LeonhardtProduktion
Ligia LewisKoproduktion
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Ruhrtriennale, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstencentrum VIELNULVIER Gent, Kaserne Basel, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Walker Art Center Minneapolis. Gefördert durch die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa. Mit Unterstützung (Residenz) von Callie’s, O Espaço do Tempo. Unterstützt durch NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. -
Events
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FEB
17
19:30 – 20:40
Ligia Lewis
A Plot / A Scandal
Time
19:30 – 20:40
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
70 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
In englischer Sprache
-
FEB
18
19:30 – 20:40
Ligia Lewis
A Plot / A Scandal
Time
19:30 – 20:40
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
70 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
In englischer Sprache
-
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© Moritz Freudenberg
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© Moritz Freudenberg
