Tune in for a conversation over Zoom during the 5 p.m. hour with EMPAC curator Katherine C.M. Adams about the stage production A PLOT / A SCANDAL by Ligia Lewis that makes its East Coast Premiere at EMPAC this weekend.

A PLOT / A SCANDAL is Berlin-based dancer-choreographer Ligia Lewis’s award-winning performance that takes up “plot” in its multiple meanings. Rebellious fantasies become schemes against the limits of narration. On stage, Lewis draws together personae ranging from Enlightenment thinker John Locke to 16th-century Santo Domingo slave rebellion leader Maria Olofa, Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, and her own great-grandmother. She explores what it might mean to be caught in the act. In the artist’s words, “If life is a scandal waiting to be plotted, scandals are incidents where fantasy and pleasure take center stage.” Ligia Lewis was recently announced as part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and she just closed her solo gallery exhibit in New York City. Curator Katherine Adams talks about bringing the stage production to EMPAC in Troy, and how the artist marks it with physical and emotional intensities where comedy and tragedy collide.

Event details can be found at empac.rpi.edu.

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