Dance
Ligia Lewis
Still Not Still
23 - 26 Oct 2024
23 - 26 Oct 2024
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With Still Not Still, Ligia Lewis develops a choreography for seven dancers in response to the historical marginalisation of black and non-Western people.
Ligia Lewis uses darkness as a site of critical imagery and imagination. Using the medieval form of the lament (a repetitive musical wailing) and combining comedy and tragedy, Ligia Lewis creates a singular, poetic theatrical language. Drawing on black humour and surrealist references, she opposes any illusion of historical progress. Ligia Lewis imagines a world suspended in time, a world at a standstill.
Can we consign a history that is full of gaps and holes to the past - particularly for those who are not included? Can history, or rather a certain version of it, be annihilated, laid out like a corpse and stripped of all rationality?
History as we know it is flawed and inadequate, shaped by the victors. What might emerge from the ashes? Still Not Still is the result of these questions.
Concept, choreography and artistic direction: Ligia Lewis
Text: Ligia Lewis in collaboration with the performers
With: Boglárka Börcsök, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Corey-Scott Gilbert, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Justin Kennedy, Nasheeka Nedsreal, (Jolie Ngemi), Damian Rebgetz
Dramatisation: Maja Zimmermann
External perspective: Dragana Bulut
Lighting design and technical direction: Joseph Wegmann
Scenography: Claudia Besuch (Gali)
Costumes: Marta Martino
Sound design and composition: S. McKenna
Acoustic and electric guitar: Joey Gavin
Assistant: Lissa-Johanna Volquartz
Sound management: Max Eilbacher, Neda Sanai
Stage management: Şenol Şentürk, Jachya Freeth
Production management: Hannes Frey, Vera Laube (HAU Hebbel am Ufer)
Tour and distribution: Nicole Schuchardt
Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin)
Coproduction: Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien GmbH (Vienna), Black Box teater (Oslo), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw (Ghent), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Tramway (Glasgow)
Funded by: Office of the Capital Cultural Fund (Berlin)
Where
Grande salle, level –1
When
23 - 26 Oct 2024
Partners
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