Art and Practice workshops bring together artists at all stages of their careers to learn from one another. Join artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis for a performative workshop in which Lewis facilitates a chorographic landscape through guided improvisation and introduces expressive concepts that give form to her stage works. Participants will organize themselves into an ensemble inspired by a “Medieval complaint,” a musical concept that expresses public or personal grievances against injustices.
Please wear comfortable clothing. Seating is available, and you are encouraged to interpret all movement prompts in whatever way is best for your body. Participants are invited to interact with each other during the program.
This two-hour, in-person program is for anyone who identifies as an artist. It will be followed by a casual reception. This program is free, but an application form is required. To keep the program intimate, registration is limited and applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. For any questions, please contact [email protected].
Artist, choreographer, and dancer Ligia Lewis conceives and directs experimental performances for a range of venues and mediums, from the stage, to galleries and museums, to films and exhibitions. Lewis’s work is often marked by physical and emotional intensities and the collision of comedy and tragedy. Through her work, performer and audience confront a confluence of processes that disrupt normative conceptions of the body, while Lewis negotiates the ghostly traces of history, memory, and the un/known. Her expressive concepts form movement, speech, affects, thoughts, relations, and utterances within a highly defined choreographic landscape. Held together by the logic of interdependence, disorder, and play, her work creates space(s) for the emergent and the indeterminate while tending to the mundane. In her work, sonic and visual metaphors meet the body, materializing the enigmatic, the poetic, and the dissonant. Her work slides between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Lewis’s work continues to evoke the nuances of embodiment.
Accessibility
FM assistive-listening devices (headsets and neck loops) are available for sound amplification. Neck loops are available to use with these devices. Neck loops do not work with hearing aids without T-coil technology.
All-gender restrooms are located nearby.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
Art and Practice is a series of seminars and workshops that bring together artists at all stages of their careers. Together they explore the challenges and possibilities of sustaining a creative life.
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Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by Volkswagen of America, the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.