The second part of Lewis’s triptych BLUE, RED, WHITE, ‘minor matter’ (2016), materializes thoughts between love and rage. Lewis and two performers engage in a complicated entanglement with the black box and themselves. In minor matter, sound travels across musical epochs to arrive at the poetics of the intimate present. Through a dynamic interplay of the theatre’s parts – sound, light, image, and architecture – minor matter gives life to a vibrant materiality.

Artist statement Ligia Lewis:
With my choreography, meticulously crafted forms of embodiment meet sonic and visual metaphors that give space for the emergent and the indeterminate while tending to the mundane. Trying to achieve an embodied dramaturgy in a field of play, I hope to allow for perceptions to shift from the familiar to the unfamiliar, stretching the capacities to care for and therefore give care to movements, speech, affects, thoughts, relations, utterances, and the bodies that hold them. In doing so, I hope to make the stage a site to materialize the enigmatic, the poetic, and the dissonant.