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Ligia Lewis

minor matter

Part of “Complaint, A Lyric. A Retrospective by Ligia Lewis”

  • Performance
  • Dance
English /  60 min.

In “minor matter” two discursive apparatuses are at play – Blackness and the black box. In this piece, Ligia Lewis turns to the colour red to materialize thoughts between love and rage. The work unfolds multi-directionally creating a poetics of dissonance from which questions of representation, presentation, abstraction, and the limits of signification emerge. Throughout the choreography the performers push their bodies against the boundaries of the stage while simultaneously illustrating a humble relationship between their bodies and the space that encapsulates it. The three dancers get exhausted as their bodies strip the stage of its formal mystique to approach its matter—black. In “minor matter”, sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Built on the logic of interdependence, the theater’s parts – light, sound, image, and architecture—become entangled with the performers, giving life to a vibrant social and poetic space. For “minor matter,” Lewis received the Bessie Award for Outstanding Production (2017). “minor matter” is the second part of the trilogy “BLUE, RED, WHITE”.

Cast

Concept, choreography & artistic direction: Ligia Lewis / Performance: Ligia Lewis, Justin F. Kennedy, Hector Thami Manekehla, Corey Scott-Gilbert / Developed with: Jonathan Gonzalez, Hector Thami Manekehla, Tiran Willemse / Text: Performers / Musical dramaturgy: Michal Libera, Ligia Lewis / Styling: Alona Rodeh / Lighting design: Andreas Harder / Lighting: Joseph Wegmann / Sound design: Jassem Hindi / Sound (Tour): Bär Kittelmann / Dramaturgy: Ariel Efraim Ashbel / Text with quotation of the poem: “Dreamtalk” by Remi Raji / Assistance: Martha Glenn / Original production management: Björn Frers / Touring & distribution: Nicole Schuchardt / Administration (touring): Julia Leonhardt

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Dates

Past

Credits

Production: Ligia Lewis. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. Residenz-Unterstützung: FD-13, PACT Zollverein, 8:tension/Life Long Burning, collective address.

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Location

  • HAU2
    Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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    Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin

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