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

DISCIPLINE was a one-night, one-hour show made up of recent experiments from my ongoing solo practice. It took 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.