Canceled: Workshop on Stage

Inspired by critical fabulation and Afropessimist thought, this workshop explores the psychic and physical dimensions of moving in and against a racist landscape in the European theatre. Adopting methods of critical inquiry from thinkers like Saidiya Hartman and David Marriott, Ligia Lewis hopes to disentangle movement from invention and instead couple dance with thinking and action. The workshop takes the theatrical term of “corpsing” into account, asking how moving away from theatrical mastery toward an otherwise unspectacular everydayness (not to be misinterpreted as the canonical postmodern quotidian), inviting antagonism and fantastical nothingness into the mix of expressive possibility. This workshop is particularly focused on Black embodiment and the Black “nothing and everything”.