During these unprecedented times, we invite you to relate your stories of resilience, grief, joy and discovery through a series of creative challenges presented in micro-filmmaking tutorials.
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Find out more and sign up here: www.wellofwills.com
A Community Celebration in the Intersection of Art, Activism and Spirituality
When: December 4th 2018 | 7-11pm
Doors | 7p
Candle Lighting + Work in Progress Performance of The Judiths of Virtuous Dissent* | 7:30p
Celebration + Short Film Screening + Live Art | 9:00p (Doors close 7:30p-8:30p for the performance)
More Artist Contributors to be announced soon!
Where: Mister Rogers | 1409, 231 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Advanced Tickets: $15 | 36 | 50 | Tickets are limited, we recommend you reserve in advance!
$15 - Community Support
$36 - Project Champion
$50 - Mega Supporter
On December 4th, we find one another in the darkness, sharing the weight of our struggle and illuminating the light of our joy. Join community, artists and activists for More Light! A night of Community Celebration and Live Art.
The evening will be electric with live music, ritual, short film premiere, and the premiere work-in-progress of The Judiths of Virtuous Dissent*.
About The Judiths of Virtuous Dissent:
Theater director, Nessa Norich and her ensemble of interdisciplinary artists channel the fullness of our grief, anger and love into a prismatic vision of a heroine who vanquishes the force of violence with the force of feeling. Judith is a mythological rebel who uses the oppressor’s knife to cut off his head. We parse through the realities of resistance through her story.
About the night:
This event occurs during the festival of Hanukkah, a celebration of the miraculous continuity of light in times of darkness. In this spirit, we gather community to share an evening of music, art and meaningful connection. We invite you to release fear, and join us to gather energy for the fight for brighter futures.
Information for how to connect with local activist communities will be available as well.
Enter into a dream ritual awash in music, poetry, storytelling, and earth-art-magic – a creation of artist and author, Day Schildkret of Morning Altars and theater artist, Nessa Norich. This immersive poetic dreamscape is the official celebration of the book release of 'Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit Through Nature, Art, and Ritual'. Come in your pajamas and let's plant the seeds of our dreams so they may sprout in our waking world.
Day Schidkret will create a massive flower altar as we journey through visions of the future with featured artists.
October 4th 7:30-9:00pm, The Assemblage NoMad
I have just finished filming a feature - the first I've written and starred in! - in Tuscany, Italy. The piece is a comedy exploring the wellness and mindfulness trend as it compares to authentic forms of transformation through dance and embodied ritual. I play Alex, a social media-obsessed aspiring yogi life coach who must learn to let go of her unhealthy need for external validation - from her followers and her partner.
Dates: July 28, August 4, & 11, 1-5pm
Cost: $300
Click here to reserve your spot!
There is no such thing as writer’s block in Neo-Futurism! In this 12-hour workshop, we will use the fundamentals of the Neo-Futurist aesthetic to get unstuck. Learn how to use the material of every day life, be in conversation with chance, and integrate task and movement as tools to fill the blank page. By the end of this workshop, participants will have written, performed and workshopped both individual and collectively-written short plays which will be showcased in an invited performance on the last day of the workshop!
An inspiring series creating art of resistance at the intersection of sisterhood, activism and spirituality.
This summer, I will be co-facilitating a series of feminist theatre workshops that reconstruct the Biblical story of Judith. Judith is a heroine of the Jewish canon, who liberates her people from the oppression and violence of a colonizing ruler. This project seeks to activate the Judith’s in us all with a close study of the narrative through the lens of feminist theory. Through theatrical interpretation, we will collectively author a new story that responds to the shocking political reality of 2018 to develop pathways of resistance to ongoing forces of oppression.
Register here: https://thejudithproject.brownpapertickets.com/
More info here: https://wellofwills.squarespace.com/about-the-project/
There will be 5 main topics explored in this series. Each topic will be introduced and discussed by the group at a Thursday Evening Salon. The texts and discussions from this salon will be used as source material for the subsequent Sunday Afternoon Theater Lab. Each Sunday will end with a sharing of work created amongst the ensemble/group.
Session #1: Evening Salon July 12 / Theater Lab July 15
Session #2: Evening Salon July 26 / Theater Lab July 29
Session #3: Evening Salon August 9 / Theater Lab August 12
Session #4: Evening Salon September 13 / Theater Lab September 16
Participants will learn the following Performance Techniques:
Composing autobiographical performance
Narration using poetic movement
Developing feminist narrative structure
Transforming ideas into visual form using poetic movement, character, and storytelling
Enhancing performance skills such as physical presence, vocal technique, embodied movement and acting.
Outer Spaces, produced by Private Cabin Collective, will have its world premiere at Twister Alley Film Festival. It is one of five features selected to be screened.
Twister Alley is ranked on FilmFreeway's Top 100 Best Reviewed list and was named to MovieMaker Magazine's 2017 Top 50 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee.
DIRECTOR: Sean Weiner
CAST: Max Brand, Francis J Spieler, Nessa Norich, Sebastian Conelli, and Ann Gulian
Visit Outer Spaces WEBSITE: outerspacesfilm.com
Today, Shine on in Schools was invited by Superintendent Espinale to present our program to all of the principals of District 12 in the Bronx. We are grateful to have been the only program invited to share the stage.
Nessa will teach a workshop on Movement, Improvisation & Play.
Ecstatic Dance is a community gathering for people who want to express themselves freely, alongside a beautiful group of people who are there to connect and expand together.
Join us and enjoy a safe and inspiring space to dance without talking, drinking, and the nightclub vibe. This is about self-expression, freeing your mind and body, and connecting with yourself and those around you. No booze, no shoes and no chit-chat on the dance floor helps us keep it intentional. Amazing music helps us keep it all about Dance.
Shine on in Schools visits our 8th Bronx Public School!
www.shineoninschools.org
SMASH THE PATRIARCHY offers 30 Neo-Futurist plays that celebrate the diverse life stories and perspectives of womxn by womxn. By telling our true stories we seek to empower and inspire others to resist the dominating Patricharchy and rise together for intersectional rights. Join us for a dynamic night of political, personal, hilarious, moving and authentic theater.
When: 3/23 & 3/24 @ 10:30pm
Where: Kraine Theater – 85 E 4th St. (btw 2nd & 3rd)
Tickets: $20 @ Door and in advance. @ nynf.org/smash
Nessa Norich is no stranger to baring her secrets in front of hundreds of strangers as a NY Neo-Futurist. Today, on Katharine Heller's Tell the Bartender, she discusses her recent journey with epigenetic trauma as a grandchild of holocaust survivors.
https://tellthebartender.com/2018/03/22/episode-101-revoking-your-ancestral-contract/
Nessa co-stars in Season 2 Episode 9 of the HBO series High Maintenance!
In collaboration with Well of Wills – a 48 hour devising workshop in which 17 women, with varying performance experience, collaboratively create a 12-minute work of performance art to be performed at the House of Yes.
The final piece played with the structure of the Beauty Pageant, a pop culture symbol of misogyny and patriarchy (not to mention formerly owned by our President). Instead of competing, the chorus of women raise their voices collectively and proclaim, "I am the woman of my dreams". We hear singular female voices arise to testify that women embrace love knowing that love comes with great labor. For love, we choose to be courageous in the struggle.
