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

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 Jose 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 explores what it might mean to be caught in the act.

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