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<p class="MsoNormal">Dancer and choreographer Ligia Lewis takes up “plot” in its multiple meanings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EMPAC at Rensselaer invites Capital District Theater audiences to A PLOT / A SCANDAL by Ligia Lewis, February 16+17, 2024. Presented in the EMPAC Theater on the campus of RPI, in Troy, NY.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this two-night presentation of Lewis’s award-winning stage production, rebellious fantasies become schemes against the limits of narration. Mythical, historical, and political vignettes scandalize landed property’s legacy. Where plot
is a scandal, the stage gives itself over to the pleasures of transgression. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here, Ligia Lewis explores what it might mean to be caught in the act.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Drawing together personae that range from Enlightenment thinker John Locke and 16th-century Santo Domingo slave rebellion leader Maria Olofa (Wolofa), to Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte and Lewis’s great-grandmother, Lewis performs
a “poetics of refusal at the edges of representation.” <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scheming against theater’s strict economy of seeing and being seen, “master of ceremonies” (Der Faust Prize, 2023) Ligia Lewis outlines a scene “where the excitement for that which does not fit might find its place.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EAST COAST PREMIERE<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EMPAC at Rensselaer presents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A PLOT / A SCANDAL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ligia Lewis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">February 16+17, 2024 | 7PM Friday + Saturday<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 ages 55+ and non-RPI students<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Advance tickets available online at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2024/plot-scandal<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Box office opens two hours before show for walk-up sales.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Questions? EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 (voice)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EMPAC <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">50 Eighth Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Troy, NY 12180<o:p></o:p></p>
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