Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut Series, Chicago

DISCIPLINE is a one-night, one-hour show made up of recent experiments from my ongoing solo practice. It takes place over 3 acts: 1) Context, 2) Punching At, and 3) Man Dance.

Program Notes

Created & performed by Nora Sharp

Sound by Nora Sharp (Oh Yeah), Fleetwood Mac (Everywhere), and Johannes Brahms (Violin Concerto in D Major, 1st Movement, as performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic)

Production & Stage Manager: Anastar Alvarez

LookOut Producer: Lauren Steinberg

Technical Director: Matthew Chapman

Graphic Design: Melanie Jeanne Plank

Documentation by Alyssa Gregory, Tony Santiago, Ricardo Adame, & Daniel Borland

The moment in the last act where I pull my shorts up my thighs is a quote of a movement of Lu Yim’s that they call the wedgie.

Special thanks: Bear Bellinger, La Mar Brown, Lucas Brown, Leslie Cagan, Katie Matteson Campana, Anjal Chande, Cultural Workers for Palestine - Chicago, Susan Dreeben, Joanna Furnans, Lally Gartel, Shawn Lent, Ruslana Lichtzier, Grace McCants, Bindu Poroori, Sam Sharp.

Check back to this page after the show for updates on some of the artists and other figures whose ideas influenced this work.