Ligia Lewis: minor matter

Friday, January 12, 2018 to Sunday, January 14, 2018

Ligia Lewis: minor matter

Dominican Republic

"minor matter." Ligia Lewis (Dominican Republic). Photo: Martha Glenn.

"minor matter." Ligia Lewis (Dominican Republic). Photo by Steve Gunther

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"A beautiful, blistering trio…“minor matter” tapped into a place of generous and generative rage." - New York Times

"Lewis’s work offers a kind of oblique blueprint for how joy, hope, anger, and despair are all always the case, using the paradigmatic fact of blackness." - 4Columns

Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA

minor matter from LIGIA LEWIS on Vimeo.

Dominican-born and Berlin-based choreographer Ligia Lewis and performers Jonathan Gonzalez and Tiran Willemse engage in a complicated entanglement with the black box and themselves. Between light and shadow, reference and imagination, affect and embodiment, questions of re-presentation, presentation, abstraction and the limits of signification emerge. In minor matter, sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Through a dynamic interplay of the theater's parts —sound, light, image, and architecture—minor matter gives life to a vibrant materiality.

WINNER - 2017 Bessie Award!

Selected as "Best Dance of 2017" by the New York Times

January 12-13, 8 pm
January 14, 6pm

LOCATION: REDCAT (Theater)
631 W. 2nd St, Los Angeles, 90012

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Presentado como parte del Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA

Ligia Lewis, coreógrafa dominicana radicada en Berlín, junto a los artistas Jonathan Gonzalez y Tiram Willemse, establece un complejo juego de entrelazamiento con la caja negra. Desde la puesta en tensión de luces y sombras, referencialidad e imaginación, afecto y corporalidad se interrogan cuestiones como re-presentación y presentación, abstracción y los límites de la significación. El sonido atraviesa, en la pieza, distintos períodos musicales hasta llegar a la poética del presente íntimo. A través de una interacción dinámica entre los elementos teatrales -sonido, luz, imagen y arquitectura- minor matter da vida a una materialidad vibrante.

12-13 de enero, 8 pm
14 de enero, 6pm

LUGAR: REDCAT (Theater)
631 W. 2nd St, Los Angeles, 90012

Presented as part of the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA, organized by REDCAT and supported by a major grant from the Getty Foundation. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.