Nora Alami crouched over a large Post-It pad of paper, writing with a black sharpie, mid process for “3rd Body” while in residency at BRIClab. She is backlit by a low shin light that emits red, yellow, and orange orbits.

2022 Resident Artist : Nora Alami

The Eros Project*

JUNE 9-11, 2022

DOORS & HAPPY HOUR: 7:30pm
PERFORMANCE: 8pm

$20 in advance / $25 at the door

Are you in a practice of keeping dried flowers or plants? Or do you have any flowers that are ready for a new life? Bring them as an offering to co-create an eros altar.

ASL Interpretation will be available on Thursday June 9, 2022

*Please note this piece contains adult content and nudity.

The Eros Project is a multi-modal dance performance that triangulates desire, teases edges, and manipulates vantage points. What are the edges of ourselves and the edges of our desire? How is desire an othering of the self? The Eros Project blends readings on the eros and the erotic, the curation of desire through colonialism, and somatic investigations into longing and loving. The Eros Project is an embodied collection of choreographic scores, fragments, musings, portraits, and conversations.

By creating fragmented narrative and choreographic vignette studies of The Lover, The Beloved, and The Third (the vantage point between) as three separate characters in the mind - The Eros Project proposes intimate tracings, psychological fragments, and poetic reframes about ways of loving the self and losing the self. The Eros Project is an exploration of the effusive, evasive, and ephemeral ways of knowing the self.

Nora Alami is a Moroccan-American dance artist currently based on the unceded lands of the Lenape-Hoking and Canarsie people, known as Brooklyn. Her choreography has been presented at the Center for Performance Research, New York Live Arts, International Center of Photography, pOnderosa, Colorado College, and Movement Research at Judson Church. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, River to River Festival, and toured internationally at the 2018 Focus on Mediterranean Choreography platform in Castiglioncello and Spoleto, Italy.

She has been awarded the Alliance for Artist Communities’ Diversity + Leadership Fellowship, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Choreographic Residency, and Miguel Gutierrez’s Landing 2.0. Nora is a 2021 JACK Resident Artist, a 2021 BRIClab: Performing Arts Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2021 Rest and Restore Residency at The Petronio Center. She is thrilled to be developing The Eros Project as the 2022 Resident Artist at Triskelion Arts.

Photos by Angel Acuña and David Donsier

 
Nora Alami at the BRIClab showing in November 2021. She is standing in a profile, in a near silhouette against a wooden wall lit red. There is a vertical streak of bright LED lights framing Nora on the left. Nora is mid speech and mid gesticulation.
A large stone wall with inscriptions at Judson Church. Nora Alami faces away wearing a sequined red dress, mid-length dark brown hair, she holds a red and white fabric that drags on the floor in her left hand.
 
 
 

To ensure that we are providing a safe environment for all, Trisk has the following protocols in place...

*Triskelion Arts is ADA-compliant and committed to making our theater welcoming and accessible to all. For seating questions, and accommodation, or assistance is needed for purchasing tickets, please contact us at 718.389.3473 or info@triskelionarts.org. Accessible seats are available for each performance and an accessible restroom is located on street level.