Please join us on Wednesday, May 25th at 6:30pm with resident Ligia Lewis in the Callie’s movement studio to present and discuss her new work in progress, A Plot / A Scandal.

As Lewis writes, “A plot exposed, a foul deed enacted, invites scandal. In the spirit of revolution or romantic musings, scandals provoke an imagining of the impossible.” Lewis asks how scandal might reveal what lies close to our fantasies: “How does scandal expose where society places its limits? If life is a scandal waiting to be plotted, how do we position ourselves within its matrix?”

Lewis will share excerpts of performance materials, then be in conversation with her sister and collaborator Sarah Lewis-Cappellari to discuss the contents of A Plot / A Scandal, unpacking some of the formal translations of its research, and sharing some of its critical inquiries. Join us for this intimate evening of performance and conversation.

A Plot / A Scandal will officially premiere at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin in October 2022. Its first iteration will be shown at Ruhrtriennale, Bochum in August 2022.

Ligia Lewis is a choreographer and dancer whose genre-defying works have thrust dance into the realm of contemporary art, and vice versa. Her practice, broadly speaking, engages with affect and embodiment, exploring the ways in which our bodies record and resist dominance.

Sarah M. Lewis-Cappellari is an Afro-Dominican-American cultural producer and currently a PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. Stemming from a position of critically addressing inequitable socio-political and cultural practices, she has combined her skills as a performance maker and pedagogue to provide cultural programming that invites, and centers underrepresented groups in the arts and in academia. Her current research explores the material and symbolic resonance of sugar, refined from cane, to interrogate how this “tastemaker” has fed the racial imagination.