“Where My Girls At?” Celebrates 5th Anniversary in Home of Inception
October 23, 2011 by Nursha
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“Where My Girls At?” returns home to Oakland, California to celebrate its 5th 
Anniversary!
“Where My Girls At?” is a “thoughtful, provocative, and insanely funny” one woman show written and performed by the “multi-talented” Micia Mosely. Portraying five drastically different characters representing the diversity of Black lesbian experiences, Micia challenges the notion that there is only one way to be Black or queer in the 21st century.
A phenomenal one hour performance steeped in improv and audience participation, Where My Girls At? has thrilled audiences across the country from San Francisco, Detroit and New York to Amherst, Chapel Hill and Honolulu. A New York Innovative Theater Award Nominee, the show, while hilarious, continues to tackle difficult issues including inter and intra-group racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Written & Performed by Micia Mosely
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
Musical Score by RiMarkible Things Music
Produced by Shalonda Ingram
A Nursha Project Production
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, November 12th, 2011; 7:30-9:30pm
Sunday, November 13th, 2011; 3:00-5:00pm
Oakland School of the Arts
530 18th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Tickets
$15 if you purchase tickets by Oct. 31, 2011
$12.50 Group Rates
$20 Advance Tickets
$25 Tickets at the door
To purchase tickets, click here
To read a recent review of the performance by D.C. Theatre Scene , click here:
http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/09/where-my-girls-at/
Micia Mosely and Friends is “Hotter Than July”
July 6, 2011 by Nursha
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Join Micia Mosely in celebrating the latest installment of Micia Mosely and Friends during the 20th Annual HOT Festival at Dixon Place, featuring Ganessa James, Shelley-Nicole Jefferson, and Damian Washington! This event should not be missed!
EVENT DETAILS 
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 @ 9:30pm
HOT Festival
Dixon Place
161 A Chrystie Street (btwn Delancey and Rivington)
Lower East Side, New York
Ticket: $5
For more information, click here .
NPA Thandiwe De Shazor Featured at International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley
March 27, 2011 by Nursha
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Join Thandiwe De Shazor at “Home Cooking,” a one-night stand of queer performances, music, movement, puppetry, and food at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley, presented by Eye Zen Art. Thandiwe is workshopping some rewrites of his show, ” Children of the Last Days ,” and some new work, “Chicken Soup for the Chronic Masturbators Soul” or “The Wounded Boy Project”.
14th Annual BGL Cruise Presents Highly Acclaimed Play About Gay Schoolteacher Accused of Child Molestation
March 27, 2011 by Nursha
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Sailing November 2-10, 2011
For the first time, The Songmaster BGL Cruise will present its guests with an evening of enchanting live theatre! “Armstrong’s Kid”, featuring NPA 
Thandiwe De Shazor, is a riveting piece written by three time NAACP Theatre Award and NAACP Image Award-winning novelist, playwright, filmmaker, journalist and actor Stanley Bennett Clay. The play stars a gay schoolteacher (Clay) who is falsely accused of child molestation by his best friend’s fourteen-year-old son and spends nearly a year in prison before the truth is revealed.
Eleven years later, the now-grown accuser (co-star Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor) goes to the cabin retreat of the falsely accused to seek forgiveness. What follows is a blistering showdown, ripe with bitter confrontations, shocking revelations, vicious humor, hidden desires, and bitter truths exposed.
The Songmaster BGL Cruise may be smooth sailing but Stanley Bennett Clay’s “Armstrong’s Kid” promises to rock you like you’ve never been rocked before!
Sailing: Nov. 2 through 10, 2011
Book now to get the lowest prices! To join the Mailing List, visit www.bglcruising.com or contact Mark Harris @ 415-922-2916 for details
For more information, click here .
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NPA Thandiwe De Shazor Featured at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley!
Join Thandiwe De Shazor at “Home Cooking,” a one-night stand of queer performances, music, movement, puppetry, and food at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley, presented by Eye Zen Art. Thandiwe is workshopping some rewrites of his show, ” Children of the Last Days ,” and some new work, “Chicken Soup for the Chronic Masturbators Soul” or “The Wounded Boy Projec t”.
Catch the Latest Installment of NPA Micia Mosely’s The Progress Report
January 1, 2011 by Nursha
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For the latest installments of The Progress Report , see below!
Micia Mosely Says Goodbye to 2010…
For the previous episode, click here .
milDRED Goes to College!
December 31, 2010 by Nursha
Filed under Nursha Project Artists, Nursha World Featured Content
Join NPA milDRED on tour as she captivates college/university audiences around the country!
UPCOMING DATES
February 7th, 2011 from 12-2pm
Shepherd University
301 N King Street
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443
Stay tuned for more details
February 19, 2011 @ 7pm
MilDred performs her unique one woMan show at Dickinson College
Place: Carlisle Theater Cubiculo
44 West High Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013
PAST DATES
October 7th, 2010 @ 7 pm
The College of William and Mary
The Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium,
Williamsburg, Virginia A 23187
October 12th and 13th, 2010
Penn State
University Park, Pennsylvania
On the evening of Tuesday October 12th, 2010, milDred performs at the HUB Auditorium (which is in the HUB-Robeson Center) at 7pm and on Wednesday October 13th, 2010, attends the rally at the Old Main Steps starting at 12pm.
Stay tuned for details at http://www.sa.psu.edu/lgbt/
The Week of October 18th-22nd, 2010
St. John Fisher College
Rochester, New York 14618
Stay tuned for more details!
October 23rd, 2010
University of Vermont’s Women Of Color Conference!
Billings North Lounge
Burlington, Vermont 05401
MilDred speaks at 5:00pm for closure of Women of Color Conference and at 8pm MilDred performs her worldly acclaimed one woMan show “When She Was King/ D.R.E.D.: Daring Reality Every Day”
Stay tuned for more details.
November 18th, 2010
Pomona College
Claremont, California
Stay tuned for more details
Nursha Project Guest Curates Mason-Rhynes Late Night Series in D.C.
December 31, 2010 by Nursha
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Join Nursha Project in celebrating Late Night with Mason Rhynes Productions . If you missed the December 2010 installment of the performance series, click here for details.
The April 30th edition of Late Night with Mason Rhynes is one you will not want to miss! Nursha Project is proud to co-curate this production!
EVENT DETAILS
April 30th, 2011 at 10pm
Late Night at Joe’s Movement Emporium
3309 Bunker Hill Road
Mt. Rainier, Maryland
Featuring A.O. Movement Collective, Wendell Cooper, and other special guests!
Co-presented with Joe’s Movement Emporium
Tickets: $20 General Admission; $15 Student Tickets with ID
Must be 18 to attend
Featured Artists
A.O. Movement Collective will be performing their piece, “Wet.”
Choreographed by Sarah A.O. Rosner + dancers
Performed by Tara Aisha Willis
Music by The Idiot
Additional choreographic research by Kirstan Clifford
This excerpt is one section of our larger work in process, barrish , or: i promise i’ll only look at the sky (goddamn black fucking hole). La Mama Experimental Theater will present the (pre)premiere of the work at La Mama Moves! this May 27/28 in NYC. The entire work is transmutable – able to be put together in any configuration for any space – and available for curation by anyone interested. Find out how you can participate at www.theAOMC.org/menu
AOMC Bio: 
Founded in 2006, the A.O. Movement Collective is a home for hard falls and heavy slow dances: a community of dancers, thinkers, and makers who live by their art. The AOMC encompasses my choreographic work; when joined with blog Urgent Artist and freelancing collective A.O. PRO(+ductions) , it is the movement third of a platform representative of a new model for dancemaking.
Choreographically, the AOMC pioneers pomo-humanism via a rigorous love affair with the aesthetics of mess. At the same time, we are developing a discourse of anti-ephemeralism that surrounds our dancemaking. We believe that by actively questioning the underlying assumptions of our field (be they artistic or economic) we become radical agents of progress, evolving the form and creating a more sustainable future.
Performer Bios:
Image: Hosea Johnson
TAR A AISHA WILLIS (dancer) dances, makes dance, and writes things from her overly cozy apartment in Brooklyn. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College in 2009 with a B.A. in Dance and English, where she performed the work of Sean Curran, David Parker, Ivy Baldwin, Yanira Castro, Stephen Petronio, Gerald Casel, Nora Chipaumire, and Susan Rethorst. She received the Dance Theater Workshop Van Lier Fellowship just after college, and has shown work at DNA’s Works-In-Progress and Green Space’s Fertile Ground Series. Tara’s newest works will be presented this spring as an Alumni Guest Artist at The Latin School of Chicago, at the new REHEARSAL workshop series, and in the RoofTop Dance Series. Aside from The A.O. Movement Collective, Tara has most recently danced with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Anna Brown Massey and Edisa Weeks. She is completing her Pilates Teacher Certification at The Kane School, and teaches at the Pilates Garage in Park Slope. She supports her artistry as a freelance writer for A.O. Pro(+ductions), House Manager at Dance Theater Workshop, and hostess at Joe’s Pub. www.bodypoem.blogspot.com
The IDIOT (composer) is the performing Alias of THEODOR WILSON , a performing artist living in 
Brooklyn, NY. He calls his style of music “ ElectroDrama ,” because it combines trashy electronic riffs with melodramatic narratives, and because his live shows incorporate theatrical devices. Related genres include post-punk cabaret, new romantic, and industrial pop. Wilson is a trained pianist and occasionally performs acoustic versions of his electronic numbers.
The Idiot has referred to his persona as a “grotesque bitch,” and a “harlequin.” In concert, as well as in promotional appearances, he often wears articles of women’s clothing, notably high-heeled shoes, but insists he is not a drag queen, and that drag is “its own medium, with its set of own rules.” However, The Idiot does perform under the rap alias, “HamSamwich,” a self-described drag queen to end all drag queens, whose numbers often appear in the Idiot’s live act. The Idiot released his first official album, called “JUVENAL!A,” in 2010.
Wilson has collaborated with Rosner and the AOMC since 2007, and has scored both her performance works ( Haunt, The What’s Left Over After ) and short films ( Flour, Eggshells, Study #4 ). He has also appeared in her performance works ( in Love and Defense of the Ones I Destroy, barrish ) and is a performative force to be reckoned with. The composition he created for The What’s Left Over After appears on his 2010 album JUVENAL!A.
SARAH A.O. ROSNER is the founder of A.O. 3 (the A.O. Entity), a three-part platform uniting the A.O. 
Movement Collective , freelancing collective A.O. PRO(+ductions) , and the Urgent Artist blog. A.O. 3 represents a new model for downtown dancemaking by holistically supporting all involved – artists, audience, funders, and critics. When not working on her own ventures, she is the Manager of Engagement at New York Live Arts in NYC.
Born and raised outside of Washington, DC, Rosner attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she studied dance and film with teachers including Emily Devine, Sara Rudner, Keith Sabado, Tony Schultz, and Kathy Westwater. Rosner founded the A.O. Movement Collective in 2006, and has been at their helm creating Anti-Ephemeral PoMo Humanist discourse and works ever since, presenting work at the RAW festival, THROW, Open Perform, WAXworks, Green Space, AUNTS, Dance Place (DC), the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and most recently, Joyce SoHo.
Image: Dan Paul Roberts
WENDELL COOPER is is modern shaman and creative artist based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of the George Washington University (Dance/Religion), he is also a certified practitioner of energy bodywork and Thai Yoga Massage. He has taught, performed, and choreographed in China, Kenya, Russia, and the Netherlands. Cooper creates all of the elements of his interdisciplinary multimedia works that include both choreographed and improvised dance, original music, and video installation. He has worked with Nicholas Leichter Dance, the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Grisha Coleman, and the Magpie Music Dance Company. Wendell also self- produces as well as collaborates on projects with Mathew Heggem (as Kinaeathesia), Monstah Black, and Yozmit. SEA GLASS is his latest collaborative project. [ www.complexstability.com ]
Micia Mosely Kicks Off the Second Season of the Progress Report!
December 8, 2010 by Nursha
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Micia Mosely returns with a second season of Progress Report . To watch, click below.
Crawlspace: A Reading, Some Soup, Homemade Bread and Wine
October 27, 2010 by Nursha
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Support NPA Moira Cutler as she presents her newest production: CRAWLSPACE!
You’re invited to attend a reading of the new play about an interracial relationship between two women from the South transplanted to a broken down, haunted New York city ten years from now.
EVENT DETAILS: 
I <3 Brooklyn Girls!
October 22, 2010 by Nursha
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June is hot hot hot!!! Join Nursha Project in celebrating the release of I Heart Brooklyn Girl’s 2011 Pulp Pinup Calendar, and guess in which month NP Founder, Shalonda Ingram is pictured!!!
**In light of this fall’s terrible spate of young suicides and homophobic violence, we’re delighted that this year 10% of the calendar’s proceeds will be donated to Sylvia’s Place, a LGBTQ youth runaway and homeless shelter that does amazing work providing overnight, crisis intervention, mental health, healthcare, schooling and job training services.
