Ligia Lewis

Ligia Lewis works as an artist, choreographer, dancer, and director. She presents her work on stage, in a gallery or museum, through film or exhibition format. Ligia Lewis's works are often marked by physical and emotional intensities by which comedy and tragedy collide. Through her work, the performer and audience confront a confluence of processes that disrupt normative conceptions of the body. At the same time, she negotiates the ghostly traces of history, memory, and the un/known. Her expressive concepts form movement, speech, affects, thoughts, relations, and utterances within a highly defined choreographic landscape. Held together by the logic of interdependence, disorder, and play, she creates space(s) for the emergent and the indeterminate while tending to the mundane. In her work, sonic and visual metaphors meet the body, materializing the enigmatic, the poetic, and the dissonant—her work slides between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Lewis's work continues to evoke the nuances of embodiment. 

Photo: Luis Rodriguez