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Ligia Lewis: minor matter
Friday, January 12, 2018 to Sunday, January 14, 2018
Ligia Lewis: minor matter
Ligia Lewis: minor matter
Dominican Republic
"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.
Associated Images:
| Date/Time | G | M/ST | CA |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRI 1/12 8:00 pm | $15 | $12 | $12 |
| SAT 1/13 8:00 pm | $15 | $12 | $12 |
| SUN 1/14 6:00 pm | $15 | $12 | $12 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff
