{"id":16218,"date":"2025-08-20T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/press\/premiar-for-some-thing-folk\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:44:19","slug":"premiar-for-some-thing-folk","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/news\/premiar-for-some-thing-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere for Some Thing Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"412\"><strong>Cullberg presents a brand-new dance piece by choreographer Ligia Lewis. In the middle of a blue landscape, a group of beings move, eager to belong. Ten dancers in a kind of Hieronymus Bosch in stage art form. Swedish premiere September 11, 2025, at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, following its world premiere at Tanz im August in Berlin on August 28.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"626\">\u201cWith this performance, I hope to convey that the ghosts, spirits, and monsters in our tales are really about us \u2013 symbols that allow us to see ourselves and our participation in the present,\u201d says Ligia Lewis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"923\"><em data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"645\">Some Thing Folk<\/em> is an entry into a world of its own \u2013 perhaps a dystopian past, or a deceptive funhouse mirror of our future. In creating the work, Ligia Lewis has drawn inspiration from, among others, feminist theorist Zakkiyyah Iman Jackson and cultural anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"1515\">\u201cMy hope with this piece has been to work with the idea of \u2018folk\u2019 not as something fixed or exotic, but as something in constant motion: an emerging, shifting collective of inner differences while also aware of the violence of the present,\u201d says Ligia Lewis. \u201cRight now I see a reactionary \u2018nativist\u2019 return mixed with a multicultural nostalgia. On the conservative side, we see far-right groups returning to a sanitized national myth, while on the more liberal side there is a cultural return to a kind of nativist fantasy of what it means to be \u2018the other\u2019 \u2013 without the critical edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1517\" data-end=\"1737\">Ligia Lewis is from the Dominican Republic, based in Berlin, and works as an artist, choreographer, dancer, and director. She presents her work on stage, in galleries or museums, through film, or in exhibition formats.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"2041\"><strong data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1789\">Concept, choreography, and artistic direction:<\/strong> Ligia Lewis<br data-start=\"1801\" data-end=\"1804\" \/><strong data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"1824\">Lighting design:<\/strong> Joseph Wegmann<br data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1842\" \/><strong data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1854\">Costume:<\/strong> Sadak<br data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1863\" \/><strong data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1880\">Sound design:<\/strong> George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow<br data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1915\" \/><strong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1937\">Music composition:<\/strong> Anton Kats<br data-start=\"1948\" data-end=\"1951\" \/><strong data-start=\"1951\" data-end=\"1966\">Set design:<\/strong> Ligia Lewis, Pia Gyll<br data-start=\"1988\" data-end=\"1991\" data-is-only-node=\"\" \/><strong data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2019\">Choreographic assistant:<\/strong> Corey Scott Gilbert<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2238\"><strong data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2058\">Performers:<\/strong> Anand Bolder, Arika Yamada, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Harrison Elliott, Johanna Tengan, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Lilian Steiner, Noam Segal, Panos Paraschou, Vincent Van der Plas<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2240\" data-end=\"2366\"><strong data-start=\"2240\" data-end=\"2257\">Co-producers:<\/strong> Tanz im August \/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein<br data-start=\"2310\" data-end=\"2313\" \/><strong data-start=\"2313\" data-end=\"2339\">In collaboration with:<\/strong> Kulturhuset Stadsteatern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cullberg presents a brand-new dance piece by choreographer Ligia Lewis. In the middle of a blue landscape, a group of beings move, eager to belong. Ten dancers in a kind of Hieronymus Bosch in stage art form. Swedish premiere September 11, 2025, at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, following its world premiere at Tanz im August in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15850,"template":"","class_list":["post-16218","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}