'62 Center: Student and Community Performance Opportunity

The ’62 Center will present Nicolas Noreña as one of our 24/25 visiting artists. While the performances are not until April 2025, he will be on campus Sept 30-Oct 4. He is looking for a “greek chorus” of students and community member actors. Below, you can see a description of the opportunity.

For more information, please email Randal Fippinger.

We are looking for a chorus to work with for a few days in the Fall (Sept 30-Oct 4) and two weeks in the Spring (March 31-April 12) and perform in the work-in-progress showing of SECONDS at Williams on April 10,11,12. Ideally, the chorus would be composed of 5-12 people. 

We would love for this chorus to be a mix of community members and students of any age and background; the more diverse, the better, with no age or movement restrictions. We want to meet some of these people in the Fall to get a sense of who we will be working with, and begin planting the seeds for the work in the spring. The piece looks at death, the processes, rituals, fears, fantasies, and imaginaries that exist in our communities. The idea is to workshop this material we call “collective unbecoming” with a group of locals, have open conversations about things we know and don’t know about death, ideas we have inherited, ideas we have accumulated, and ideas we have formed about death, encouraging difference and respect for each other. From this exchange, we would begin to construct abstract new rituals, dances, and songs, which will be developed theatrically and intertwined with the arch of the performance.   

For the first week in the Fall, we expect to have 2-3 3-hour sessions with anyone interested and able to attend.

The Million Underscores is an experimental theater company based in Brooklyn under the artistic direction of Nicolas Noreña. Founded in Summer 2013, the company has developed alongside a qualitative study of numbers and experiments in aesthetic drive, abstract composition, and collaborative writing.

NICOLAS NOREÑA is a Colombian theater maker and performer based in Brooklyn, his work explores interrogates and bends the architecture of languages that compose theater. 

He is the artistic director of THE MILLION UNDERSCORES, an experimental theater company founded in 2013, through which he has developed, produced, directed and designed over fifteen original productions that have been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, The Exponential Festival, Movement Research, The Brick Theater, The Clemente Center, Triskelion Arts, Target Margin Theater, O.D.C San Francisco, as well as galleries and public spaces around New York City. 

Nicolás studied, performed and worked with Mary Overlie for twelve years. Under her tutelage he learned how to teach her work. He currently teaches at  the Experimental Theater Wing in New York University where Mary taught for 40 years. He has also taught at Playwrights Horizons, MIT, TK Studios, and Universidad de Los Andes among others. He is the director of the Mary Overlie Archive.