[Capdist-announce] EMPAC presents Ligia Lewis: A PLOT / A SCANDAL February 16+17

[TeBordo, Kathryn]

Dancer and choreographer Ligia Lewis takes up “plot” in its multiple meanings.

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.

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.

Here, Ligia Lewis explores what it might mean to be caught in the act.

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.”

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.”

EAST COAST PREMIERE

EMPAC at Rensselaer presents
A PLOT / A SCANDAL
Ligia Lewis
February 16+17, 2024 | 7PM Friday + Saturday

Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 ages 55+ and non-RPI students
Advance tickets available online at
https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2024/plot-scandal

Box office opens two hours before show for walk-up sales.
Questions? EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 (voice)

EMPAC
50 Eighth Street
Troy, NY 12180

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