Ligia Lewis (Dominican Republic, USA) works as a choreographer and dancer. Lewis’s works, often marked by expressions of physical intensity and humor, animate subjects through physical expression that disrupts normative conceptions of the body. She negotiates the ghostly traces of history, memory, and the unknown. Through choreography, she develops expressive concepts that give form to movements, speech, affects, thoughts, relations, and the bodies that hold them.
Her work was presented in multiple venues across Europe and the US. She was managed and produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater from 2017 until 2021 and was a tanzhaus nrw factory artist from 2017 until 2019. She is the recipient of the Tabori Award in the category of Distinction, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants Award, a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production, and more. She was also featured on the German Dance Platform shortlist in 2022 and 2018.