MINOR MATTER
MINOR MATTER

national premiere

MINOR MATTER
© Martha Glenn

national premiere

The colour red materialises thoughts between love and rage.

“minor matter” is the second part of the trilogy (BLUE, RED, WHITE) performed by three dancers. Two discursive apparatuses are at play — blackness and the black box. The work unfolds multi-directionally creating a poetics of dissonance from which questions of re-presentation, presentation, abstraction, and the limits of signification emerge. Throughout the choreography the performers push their bodies against the boundaries of the stage while simultaneously illustrating a humble relationship between their bodies and the space that encapsulates them. The performers get exhausted as their bodies strip the stage of its formal mystique to approach its matter—black. Sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Built on the logic of interdependence, the theater’s parts — light, sound, image, and architecture — become entangled with the three performers, giving life to a vibrant social and poetic space.


16YRS+

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Credits

Concept and choreography Ligia Lewis • Performers Ligia Lewis, Tiran Willemse, Corey Scott-Gilbert, ​(original cast Hector Thami Manekehla, Jonathan Gonzalez) • Musical Dramaturgy Michal Libera, Ligia Lewis • Sound Jassem Hindi • Sound technician Neda Sanai • Light Andreas Harder • Light Technician Joseph Wegmann • Dramaturgy Ariel Efraim Ashbel • Support Martha Glenn
• Executive prodution and difdusion Nicole Schuchardt - HAU Hebbel am Ufer • Co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer • Financial support Senate Chancellery – Cultur and Europe, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. • Approximate lenght 1h