Photo by Karmen Elaine
Nora Sharp
2018 Co-MISSION Resident
Nora Sharp’s work draws on layered history and training as a musician, writer, organizer, teacher, capoeirista, dancer, choreographer, and occasional emcee, and reflects lived experience as a queer white Chicagoan. Nora has been an artist in residence at High Concept Labs as part of Vaudeo Motion and has performed with and for Ayako Kato, Jane Jerardi, Kirsten Leenaars, and The Inconvenience, among others. Nora trains capoeira angola with FICA Chicago and organizes Research Project, an artist-centered quarterly works-in-progress performance series. Nora holds a BA from Oberlin College.
PROJECT AT LINKS HALL
Small Boobs | December 2018
Small Boobs is a performance solo offered out of curiosity around the intertwined follies of gender and relationship. Using levity as a Trojan horse for heartache, Small Boobs unweaves and retangles tall tales and embodied blueprints of childhood, transhood, a donut shop, and beyond, using personal history, a mini synthesizer, extended metaphor, and more. Small Boobs builds a world and invites you in.
Artist Credits
Created, directed, and performed by: Nora Sharp
Tech & Sound Support: Brett Swinney
Documentation & Support: Aaron Greer
Lighting Design: Giau Minh Truong
Creative Support: Udita Upadhyaya & Bryan Saner