NEW: Cosmic Docks tours to the Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia in September 2025 - tickets here!

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Cosmic Docks is a trans tall-tale about orbiting the sources of yourself and yearning for clarity in a broken world. Choreographer and comedian Nora Sharp builds a world where personal history and sci-fi futurism intersect in the dumpster out back of a local top surgery office, eventually charting a pathway beyond story or self.

CHOREOGRAPHER, WRITER, & PERFORMER: Nora Sharp

LIGHTING DESIGN: Christine Shallenberg

PROJECTION DESIGN: Ruby Que

SET DESIGN & BUILD: Bluestem Building & Restoration - Erin Bliss, Gisselle Dorado, and Bryan Saner

ORIGINAL SOUND: Nora Sharp

PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT: Sophie Minouche Allen & Zachary Nicol, with earlier support from Charlotte Long & Will Davis

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Jessi Barber

RUNTIME: 75 minutes (adaptable)

Cosmic Docks premiered as part of the Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in March 2025 at the Dance Center at Columbia College. The festival was a Winter 2025 Art Pick in the Chicago Reader - read more here.

We proudly shared the weekend with the world premiere of THICK: a crumbling freak show, a multimedia solo performance by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop.

Read coverage of the Chicago premiere by Rachel Lindsay and Corey Smith at Sixty Inches from Center.

Cosmic Docks began through a residency at Hambidge in 2022. Further development support was provided by the 2023 Queer|Art Mentorship program with mentor Will Davis, the 2024 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award (and their space partnership with the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, a Production Residency at the Dance Center at Columbia in early 2025, and various work-in-progress or excerpt showings Rattlestick Theater, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix 37, Midwest RAD Fest, bim bom studios, and the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Elevate Festival, all 2022-23.

Read more about how Cosmic Docks came about on the Nor Art newsletter.

Cosmic Docks will tour the U.S. in late 2025 thru 2026. Dates and details are in progress - email nora.sharp@gmail.com for more information or booking inquiries.