Nourishment: what does it feel like to grow up?
New York City
what does it feel like to grow up? is an interdisciplinary dance, live music, theater, storytelling, installation design, and a multi-course tasting menu paired with drinks experience. In this chapter of Nourishment the audience is pulled into a non-linear world of aging as the cast shares experiences of what it feels like to be a child, to be a teenager, and to enter adulthood. The performance explores what dreams feel like and how reality unfolds. What does it mean to take responsibility, to fulfill expectations, and to feel disillusionment? How does this vast range of joys and struggles manifest itself within us? Is there ever a point when we stop growing up? Nourishment invites the audience to ponder these sorts of questions throughout the show while experiencing each performer’s inner world and perspective.
Premiere dates: Sept. 21-23, 2017
Premiere location: Planta Baja, Brooklyn, NY
Collaborators/cast credits:
Directed, Choreographed & Performed by Gwendolyn Gussman
Scenography by Anna Driftmier
Lighting design, Stage Management, & Performance by Aja Jackson
Music & Performance by Jett Kwong Kelly & Trevor New
Collaborating Artists & Performers: Nico Gonzales, Mara Driscoll, Carly Krulee, and Patrick Needham
Cuisine by Chef Collin Wagner
Photos by David Gonsier & Jeffrey Lee
"Nourishment is a show that is far easier to experience than to describe. It’s about the stories that make us, the stories that we don’t necessarily tell but which hum, unspoken, in our bones. It’s not any one person’s narrative; growing up is different for everyone, after all. But it’s a collage, a constellation, that traces a kernel of truth, that reminds us that regardless, we’re all swept up in the passing of time, in our stories. We’re all just figuring it out."
— Courtney Escoyne, The Stewardship Report
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