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Ligia Lewis

Water Will (in Melody)

Part of “Complaint, A Lyric. A Retrospective by Ligia Lewis”

  • Performance
  • Dance
German audio description /  English /  60 mins.
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“Water Will (in Melody)” is a devised choreographic work for four performers using melodrama as a point of departure. Wrestling with language and notions of "the will", this dystopic fantasy becomes a space for negotiating desire, imagination, and feelings of an encroaching end. Unfolding with playful inventiveness, a wet and cavernous landscape becomes host to a fiction that invites instability, recreation, and catastrophe. Lewis initiates this world in which voice, gesture, touch and movement, flow like waves –– both gentle and turbulent. Through the language of mimesis, Lewis and her performers engage with the porousness of the theater by producing a fantastical-like materiality translucent to its metaphoric and symbolic weight. Surrendering to the possibilities of the haptic, sense gets un-done to get re-done, paving way for an-“othered” organization of sight and touch. Through this process of alienation, exteriorization, and materialization, this melodrama touches the borders of its own making giving life to both the emotional landscape of its protagonists as well as to the theater itself.

Cast

Concept, choreography & artistic direction: Ligia Lewis / Development with original performers: Titilayo Adebayo, Dani Brown, Susanne Sachsse / Performance: Dani Brown, Ligia Lewis, Jolie Ngemi, Susanne Sachsse / Text: Ligia Lewis in collaboration with the performers / Dramaturgy: Maja Zimmermann / Light Design: Ariel Efraim Ashbel / Sound Design: Jassem Hindi, S. McKenna / Sound (touring): Max Eilbacher / Set design: Eike Böttcher / Technical direction & lighting: Catalina Fernandez / Costume design: sowrong studio / Assistance: Carina Zox, Gilad Bendavid / Original Production management: Hannes Frey (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) / Administration (touring): Julia Leonhardt / Touring & distribution: Nicole Schuchardt

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Dates

Past
Notes:

With Haptic Access Tour (19:30) and audio description (German)

Credits

Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-production: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 / Centre D’Art Contemporain (Genf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), donaufestival (Krems), Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Supported by: Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC).

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Location

  • HAU1
    Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin

    There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. 
    Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to book tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons for all events via the ticketing system. If you have any questions or would like to book, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

  • HAU2
    Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

    There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
    Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to book tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons for all events via the ticketing system. If you have any questions or would like to book, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

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