Some Thing Folk
by Ligia Lewis
A future written in the past
A story hard to tell,
something folk for now
In a distant past, in a fantastical landscape, a new story is being written. An imagination of a future that is otherwise impossible.
Suppose the “human” body, beyond its fleshly matter, comprises stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. How might these porous and animate creature-like things (bodies) host an-other story inspired by their collective pasts but uprooted and set in motion by a series of imaginative departures? A crucial story which teaches us to see each other more honestly.
Inspired by for example black feminist theorist Zakkiyyah Iman Jackson and cultural anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, choreographer Ligia Lewis will explore complex modes of embodiment in ways that confront a racial history tethered to the skin, while simultaneously disrupting any linear or reductive explanation of this experience.
An exploration of something completely new but simultaneously very, very old.
