“to steal a folk, is to kill a folk, this is the end of some thing folk”
Concept, Choreography, Artistic Direction Ligia Lewis Performance: Cullberg Dancers Lighting design Joseph Wegmann Costumes Sadak Sound design George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow Musical Composition Anton Kats Scenography Ligia Lewis,Pia Gyll Choreographic Assistance Corey Scott Gilbert Prodcuction Cullberg Coproduction Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein
“facts are simply perceptions and surfaces, you go round and round fall on the ground”
Concept, Choreography, Artistic Direction Ligia Lewis. in process with and performed by Boglárka Börcsök, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Corey Scott-Gilbert, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Justin F. Kennedy, Nasheeka Nedsreal, (Jolie Ngemi), Damian Rebgetz. Text Ligia Lewis, in collaboration with performers Dramaturgy Maja Zimmermann Outside Eye Dragana Bulut Lighting design & technical direction Joseph Wegmann Set design Claudia Besuch (Gali) Costume Marta Martino Sound design & composition S. McKenna Management, production & distribution Nicole Schuchardt, Godlive Lawani–Stane Performing Arts Management
trailer Ligia Lewis and Moritz Freudenberg
“some stories are hard to tell, lucky for us ghosts don’t die so easily”
Concept, Choreography, Artistic Direction, Scenography, Text: Ligia Lewis. Co-performers/Assistance: Corey Scott-Gilbert, Justin F. Kennedy Dramaturgy, Research assistant: Sarah Lewis-Cappellari. Original musical composition: George Lewis Jr. and Wynne Bennett. Light Design: Joseph Wegman.
Press quote: “Lewis’s working method offers a compelling counterpoint to genealogy. Instead of tracing history’s fissures, she tugs at its contours, distorting them.” —Artforum
Concept, Choreography & Artistic Direction: Ligia Lewis in creation with and performed by: Dani Brown, Ligia Lewis, Jolie Ngemi, Susanne Sachsse Light design: Ariel Efraim Ashbel Scenic concept: Ligia Lewis Technical direction: Catalina Fernandez Costume design: sowrong Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer Coproduction: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 / Centre D’Art Contemporain (Geneva), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), donaufestival (Krems), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Münchner Kammerspiele. Press:Karen Archey, Frieze Magazine issue 206, October 2019 more info: https://www.stanepam.com/artists/ligialewis/waterwill/
Concept & Choreography & Artistic Direction: Ligia Lewis in creation with and performed by: Jonathan Gonzalez, Ligia Lewis, Thami Manekehla alternating performers: Corey Scott-Gilbert, Tiran Willemse, keyon gaskin Musical concept: Ligia Lewis Musical Dramaturgy: Michal Libera & Ligia Lewis Light Design: Andrew Harder
Press quote: It turns out utopia is going to have to coexist with apocalypse and that both have been with us all along. Lewis’s work offers a kind of oblique blueprint for how joy, hope, anger, and despair are all always the case, using the paradigma6c fact of blackness- Hannah Black, 4Columns, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/arts/dance/best-dance.html more info: https://www.stane-pam.com/artists/ligialewis/minormatter/
Concept, Choreography, Direction: Ligia Lewis in creation with and Performed by: Brian Getnick Alternating Performers: Andrew Hardwidge, Martin Hansen Musical Arrangement: George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow) Light design: Ligia Lewis Production: Ligia Lewis Supported by: Human Resources Los Angeles, ADA Studio Berlin, and Pieter Space (Los Angeles) Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Press quote: In Sorrow Swag, the path from the political to the primal is direct, if only we are brave enough to face its undeniable pain- Sara Lyons, Contemporary performance
https://brooklynrail.org/2016/02/dance/out-of-the-blue-ligia-lewis/
more info: https://www.stanepam.com/artists/ligialewis/sorrowswag/