Facts are simply perceptions and surfaces. You go round and round fall on the ground. What is the condition of bad fait(h). What is deader than dead?
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. In response to this exclusion from the past, Lewis leverages darkness as a site for critical imaging and imagining. 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 and comedic 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.
Facts are simply perceptions and surfaces. You go round and round fall on the ground. What is the condition of bad fait(h). What is deader than dead?
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. In response to this exclusion from the past, Lewis leverages darkness as a site for critical imaging and imagining. 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 and comedic 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.
Concept, choreography & artistic direction | Ligia Lewis |
Performance | Boglárka Börcsök, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Corey-Scott Gilbert, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Justin Kennedy, Jolie Ngemi/Ligia Lewis, Damian Rebgetz |
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 |
Acoustic & electric guitar | Joey Gavin |
Assistance | Lissa-Johanna Volquartz |
Sound technician (tour) | Manuel Pessoa de Lima |
Stage technician (tour) | Şenol Şentürk |
Production management | Hannes Frey, Vera Laube (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) |
Administration (tour) | Sina Kießling, Julia Leonhardt |
Touring & distribution | Nicole Schuchardt |
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Production | Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer |
Co-production: | tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Black Box Theater (Oslo), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Ghent), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Dance International Glasgow / Tramway |
Funded by | Capital Cultural Fund (Berlin) |