Current
Upcoming
March 13 & 15, 2025: World premiere of Cosmic Docks alongside Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop’s THICK: a crumbling freak show, at the Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival at the Dance Center of Columbia College. Info and tickets here.
January 2025
Oberlin Screenwriters Intensive, Oberlin, OH
Production Residency for Cosmic Docks at the Dance Center of Columbia College
Recent/Past
2024 throughout: 2024 Lab Artist with Chicago Dancemakers Forum - read the announcement
December 2024: World premiere screening of The Real Dance - Season 2 (+ rescreening of Season 1), featuring Tuli + Tithi Bera, Lichen Bouboushian, & Alison Kopit, at FACETS Chicago.
August 2024: In residence working on Swine Ball at the Chicago Performance Lab at the University of Chicago, with playwright/dramaturg Hal Cosentino and collaborating performers Sophie Allen, Claire Binguit, Emma Linderman, Grace McCants, Zach Nicol, and Sara Zalek
June 2024:
Understudy for Algernon in Strawdog Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest
DISCIPLINE, a new one-hour one-them-show about financial complicity, tentative transmasculinity, and the men you wished would love you back, at Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut Series
2023 throughout:
Queer|Art Mentorship Fellow in Performance working with director and choreographer Will Davis
The Real Dance - Season 2 in production, Season 1 streaming on Open Television | OTV
November 2023: Invited work-in-progress showing of Cosmic Docks (formerly known as Origin Story) at Rattlestick Theater, NYC, presented with Queer|Art and co-hosted by Will Davis and Miranda Haymon
October 2023: Presented talk/embodied workshop Slouching Towards Technique: Gender dysphoria, physical correctness, and sense of belonging in dance class at the American Dancing Bodies Symposium at Columbia College
August - September 2023: Sharp Tank, a new series of casual works-in-progress + conversation, Episodes 1-3 on Thursdays 8/31, 9/14, and 9/21 at 7pm at bim bom studios, 5226 W. Belmont, Chicago. More info HERE.
This series will return in 2025; check back or join mailing list to stay up to date or express interest in performing. Thanks to all the artists who shared their work - Charlotte Long, Bindu Poroori, Aviva Jaye, Lichen Bouboushian, Christina Chammas, Ali Claiborne-Naranjo, Martin Levy aka Candy, Camila Rivero Pooley, Helene Achanzar, and Sungjae Lee - and to everyone who joined us to take in and chat about the work.
July 2023: Rootstock Residency with Grace McCants at The Croft, MI
July 2023: Excerpt-in-progress of DISCIPLINE at Physical Theater Festival’s Scratch Night
June 2023: Excerpt of Cosmic Docks at New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival, Abrons Arts Center, NY
May 2023: Queer|Art Mentorship Fellows retreat at Stephen Petronio Residency Center, NY
April 2023: Dramaturg for Julie Crothers’ residency at MANCC, FL
March 2023: Excerpt from Cosmic Docks and screening of The Real Dance - Episode 2 at Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (RAD Fest), Kalamazoo, MI
November 2022: Guest artist at Direct Encounters with the Arts, Western Michigan University
October 2022: Excerpt from Cosmic Docks and screening of The Real Dance - Episode 2 at Elevate Chicago Dance
June 2022: The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show, Episode 2, co-created with Grace McCants and with videography by Bea Cabrera, Sydney Sullivan, and Spence Warren, premiered at the Pivot Arts Festival
Summer 2022: Workshopping Hal Cosentino’s new play Lineage with The Syndicate
March 2022: Residency at the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
March 2022: The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show, Episode 1 screening at Midwest RAD Fest, Kalamazoo
2021: The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show, starring Christina Chammas, Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop, Irene Hsiao, and Dorian Vanunu, with original score by Dorian Vanunu, commissioned & premiered by the Pivot Arts Festival 2021. You can watch it here.
Fall 2021: Student work responder, Beloit College dance program
In general: The brilliant and talented Alyssa Gregory invited me to be a guest on Volume 3 of her podcast The Process, which explores how Chicago dancemakers make their work, alongside co-host Tia Greer. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!!
Further Back
September 2020: Synapse Arts’ #CrosswalkDances with Grace McCants (virtual) - viewable here
September 2020: Links Hall’s 96 Hour Performance Festival with Spence Warren, Ayako Kato, and Jacob Snodgrass (virtual performance). Recording available upon request (email nora.sharp@gmail.com).
March 2020: Excerpt of Family Reunion at Midwest RAD Fest (Regional Alternative Dance Fest), Kalamazoo, MI
March 2020: Guest artist at Direct Encounters with the Arts, Western Michigan University
February 2020: Guest artist at Kirsten Leenaars’ performance course Everyone Says I Love You at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
February 2020: Shared process and footage from Family Reunion at the Local Artists Showcase at the In/Motion Dance Film Festival, Loyola University, Chicago
January 2020: Premiere of Family Reunion at Steppenwolf’s LookOut series
Winter 2019: Movement direction for and you wanna go forever by Genesis Ensemble at Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series
November 2019: Guest artist at Direct Encounters with the Arts, Western Michigan University
Summer 2019: Featured artist & cast member for The Fly Honey Show X
June 2019: Queer Comedy Night, Reunion Chicago
May 2019: Daddy Issues/Zaddy Issues at Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC
April 2019: Family Portrait premiere at Synapse Arts - New Works, Chicago
March 2019: Small Boobs at Midwest RAD Fest (Regional Alternative Dance Fest), Kalamazoo, MI
Winter 2019: THE AMTRAKLOR (see deets on the page for this project)
December 2018: Performed in Udita Upadhyaya & Lindsey Barlag Thornton’s a last a loved a long for In Progress at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Fall 2018: Workshop Series: Making & Responding to Solo Performance at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley
November 2018: Small Boobs at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley
October 2018: Small Boobs at Solo: A Festival of Dance at On the Boards, Seattle
September 2018: Udita Upadhyaya’s nevernotmusic book release at Tritriangle
July 2018: Talk: Attachment Theory in Popular Culture at Comfort Station’s Comfort Society Series. Some notes from this talk here.
June 2018: Small Boobs premiere at Links Hall Co-MISSIONS Festival of New Works