A Plot / A Scandal
2023
Synopsis
Dancers in colonial wigs and various states of undress weave together historical, political, and mythical narratives—inspired by the Enlightenment thinker John Locke, the slave revolt of Santo Domingo in 1521, Cuban revolutionary Jose Aponte, and choreographer Ligia Lewis’ great grandmother.
Editorial
Throwing demands of conventional storytelling to the wind, this corporeally energetic work from Ligia Lewis is invigoratingly animated by the artist’s background in performance and dance. Bells toll, clocks chime, but linear time is out of joint in this stirring evocation of Caribbean resistance.
