Fahrenheit

"Melancholy: A White Mellow Drama" emerged from a series of works interrogating race, representation, melancholy and grief. Upon the invitation of Fahrenheit, choreographer Ligia Manuela Lewis is developing the last part of the series "Melancholy" with performing artist Thibault Lac. It will delve into the politics of sadness while interrogating race, privilege, and the social construction of whiteness as sadness through the symbolic figure Platonov, Chekhov's byronic hero, as a means to reflect upon privilege and cultural hegemony. By means of willful engagement, dancer Thibault Lac will perform this melodrama of dance, theater, and text, making visible a politic of social mourning.