Dance & Performance 
Ligia Lewis

Still Not Still

Ligia Lewis

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer. She creates affective choreographies while interrogating the metaphors and social inscriptions of the body. Lewis’s work continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. Her work has been shown at various venues and festivals, such as Abrons Arts Center / American Realness (New York), Flax / Fahrenheit (Los Angeles), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin).

Her awards and honors include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2018), a Bessie Award for “Outstanding Production” for minor matter (2017), and ImPulsTanz’s Prix Jardin d’Europe for Sorrow Swag (2015).

Ligia Lewis’ stage works are (co-)produced and represented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

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Credits

Concept, choreography, direction 
Ligia Lewis 
Performance 
Boglárka Börcsök, Darius Dolatyari, Corey-Scott Gilbert, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Jolie Ngemi, Justin Kennedy, Damian Rebgetz 
Dramaturgy 
Maja Zimmermann 
Outside eye 
Dragana Bulut 
Lighting design, technical direction 
Joseph Wegmann 
Sound design, composition 
S. McKenna 
Acoustic and Electric Guitar 
Joey Gavin 
Set design 
Claudia Besuch (Gali) 
Costume 
Marta Martino 
Assistant 
Lissa-Johanna Volquartz 
Production management 
Hannes Frey (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 
Production assistant 
Vera Laube (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 
Touring, distribution 
Nicole Schuchardt (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 


Produced by Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Black Box teater (Oslo), Arts Centre Vooruit (Ghent), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Dance International Glasgow / Tramway. Funded by Capital Cultural Fund (Berlin).
 

Still Not Still

+++ Performance postponed +++

“Liga Lewis has focused her practice on creating other possibilities for viewing and sensing the world in order to reflect on relation and empathy.” – Frieze Online

Liga Lewis develops a choreography for seven performers, a composition that emerges out of the dark space that is history for black and non-Western subjects. She makes use of the early musical form of a „complainte“  ­– a prolonged lament or musical poem. Through the confluence of comedy and tragedy, Lewis evokes with poetic force a unique theatrical language full of dark humor and surrealist imagery, disrupting any fantasy of historical progress. Thus, Lewis imagines a world out of time, a world at a standstill.

Can a history full of bad faith, gaps and holes, particularly for those that fall outside its purview, be left to the past? Can history then, or a particular form of it, be deadened, exposed as a corpse, and stripped of reason? Given history is fallible and insufficient, and overdetermined by its victors, what might emerge once it is laid to rest?  Still Not Still emerges from these conceptual questions, and, in response, makes an attempt to step to the side of the past.

Ligia Lewis

Ligia Lewis is a dancer and choreographer. She creates affective choreographies while interrogating the metaphors and social inscriptions of the body. Lewis’s work continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. Her work has been shown at various venues and festivals, such as Abrons Arts Center / American Realness (New York), Flax / Fahrenheit (Los Angeles), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin).

Her awards and honors include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2018), a Bessie Award for “Outstanding Production” for minor matter (2017), and ImPulsTanz’s Prix Jardin d’Europe for Sorrow Swag (2015).

Ligia Lewis’ stage works are (co-)produced and represented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

ligialewis.com

Credits

Concept, choreography, direction 
Ligia Lewis 
Performance 
Boglárka Börcsök, Darius Dolatyari, Corey-Scott Gilbert, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Jolie Ngemi, Justin Kennedy, Damian Rebgetz 
Dramaturgy 
Maja Zimmermann 
Outside eye 
Dragana Bulut 
Lighting design, technical direction 
Joseph Wegmann 
Sound design, composition 
S. McKenna 
Acoustic and Electric Guitar 
Joey Gavin 
Set design 
Claudia Besuch (Gali) 
Costume 
Marta Martino 
Assistant 
Lissa-Johanna Volquartz 
Production management 
Hannes Frey (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 
Production assistant 
Vera Laube (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 
Touring, distribution 
Nicole Schuchardt (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) 


Produced by Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Black Box teater (Oslo), Arts Centre Vooruit (Ghent), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Dance International Glasgow / Tramway. Funded by Capital Cultural Fund (Berlin).
 
29.04./
30.04.
Thu/​Fri
19.30
29.04./
30.04.
Thu/​Fri
19.30
TQW Halle G
€ 20/15/10
 
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