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Ligia Lewis works as an artist, choreographer, dancer, and director. She presents her work on stage, in a gallery or museum, through film or exhibition format. Lewis's works are often marked by physical and emotional intensities by which comedy and tragedy collide. Through her work, the performer and audience confront a confluence of processes that disrupt normative conceptions of the body. Her work slides between the familiar and unfamiliar. At the same time, she 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. Lewis is the recipient of the German Theater Award Der FAUST in the category of Performance in Dance (2023) for "A Plot / A Scandal," the Tabori Award in the category of Distinction (2021); a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants Award (2018); a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for minor matter (2017); a Factory Artist residency at tanzhaus nrw (2017-19); and a Prix Jardin d' Europe from ImPulsTanz for Sorrow Swag (2014). Her work has been presented in multiple venues across Europe and the U.S. and is currently touring.