Nora Raine Thompson
Nora Raine Thompson is a writer, performer, and dance scholar. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at NYU.
Generator is a little trippy and also bewildering and undeniably entertaining. It feels like being charmed by a shiny surface and wondering if its glow can feed you even while it gets bought and sold and profited from in the bright aisle of a grocery store. It made me ask, what do we do with a passion for and deep suspicion of glossy imagery, shining spectacle? What is left when you generate stardom?
Nora Raine Thompson muses on her expedition into The Room, a virtual collaborative imagination game created and facilitated by Anna Kroll and Chloë Engel.
Two writers wade into the hazy environment of David Thomson’s new work to grapple with opacity and transparency, the magical and mundane. Where one sees an M, the other sees a W, yet both come away with a sense of intimacy in the unknown.
One year after the premiere, Audre Wirtanen discusses her work DX ME FIX ME with Nora Raine Thompson. In conversation, the two laugh about bad doctors, consider the fetishization of pain in dance, and imagine healthcare that actually cares.
