EnLfeshed , 2026
Performance co- authored and performed with Ligia Lewis
Staged as a TV set with a live studio audience, Ligia Lewis & Liz Rosenfeld use storytelling, humour, dance, and video to explore histories of social justice. They use their fathers as a backdrop for an exploration of family and unlikely coalescing.
Choreographer Ligia Lewis and performance artist Liz Rosenfeld work at the threshold where knowledge, access, (il)legibility, and erasure do not simply cross but flash up against one another. Through estrangement and nuanced play with the portraiture of their fathers – a dance between homage and critique – they interrogate that which they inherit and refuse. Tracing the correspondences between the past and present, they demand the importance and (im)possibilities of what radical coalition can be, starting with their own togetherness.
As children of Jewish-American fathers defined by civil rights organizing, Lewis and Rosenfeld use this shared background to address their political disappointments in the present. Through their lived experiences as a Black-presenting femme and a trans-nonbinary person, the two artists explore choreographic and autobiographical connections. Using humor, they approach storytelling playfully to allow the body to hold what linear narrative cannot.
Team
Concept, direction, performance: Ligia Lewis, Liz Rosenfeld / Production: Joelle Burrichter / Pre-Produktion: Godlive Lawani / Administration, finances: transmissions / Stage design: Ligia Lewis, Liz Rosenfeld / Lighting design, stage design assistance: Joseph Wegmann / Stage construction: Jörg Fischer / Live Sound for stage, sound technician: Carola Caggiano / Sound composition and design: George Lewis Jr. AKA Twin Shadow, Wynne Bennett / Musical arrangement: Ligia Lewis, Liz Rosenfeld / Tailor suit designed and constructed by: Ian Bernhard / Costume styling: Ligia Lewis / Vocal coaching: Leah Marojević / Dramaturgy: Season Butler, Dr. Sarah Lewis-Cappellari / Video cinematography: Nadja Krüger / Video edit: Silke Briel / A warm thank you to: Kunstquartier Bethanien, PSR Collective / Uferstudios, Maciek Sado, Kathy Rosenfeld, George Howard Lewis, Steven Rosenfeld / Audio description: Emmilou Roessling, Silja Korn
PAST AND FUTURE PERFORMANCE DATES:
UPCOMING: Arsenic (Centre d'art scénique contemporain) in Lausanne, Switzerland, March, 2027
PREMIERE : Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin, September, 2026
*For Full show documentation and future tour bookings please contact Liz’s website email or through https://ligialewis.com
Trailer for ENFLESHED
