The premiere screening of Nora’s new film Nora the Many, made in collaboration with Choreographer Eleanor Bauer and composer Zeena Parkins.

Tickets and info.
The premiere of our film ‘Nora the Many’ will be an in person screening at Sadler’s Wells on the 29 and 30 September 2022, at 8pm. There will also be a relaxed daytime screening at 11am on 30 Sept.

Nora the Many is a film based on a novella of the same name, written collectively by Nora (dancers Stephanie McMann, Eleanor Sikorski, Flora Wellesley Wesley) and choreographer/performer Eleanor Bauer. It tells the story of Cindy’s Bar and its peculiar regulars: Divina the megalomaniacal performance artist, her child and faithful follower Tworden the Giant, Elba the Electric Child, and Tina the daydreaming bartender.
Zeena Parkins’ musical score and Bauer’s narration invite us on a non-linear trip through a multiverse of strange characters, with McMann, Sikorski and Wellesley Wesley’s dancing providing a polyphonic bed of rhythm and emotion. It is a surreal and humorous study of a tight knit group and the planet they live on: the vast, volatile body of a giant.
Thursday’s World Premiere screening will mark the release of the EP of the sound score composed by Zeena Parkins, pioneer of contemporary harp practices and Guggenheim Fellow (2019). There will also be a post-show talk following the screening with all of the collaborators, and a chance to get your copy of the novella: Nora the Many.

CREDITS
Concept - Eleanor Bauer
Writers and performers - Eleanor Bauer, Stephanie McMann, Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley
Direction and cinematography - Stepanie McMann, Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley
Additional cast - Fox Gill-McMann and Albie Gill-McMann
Music Composition - Zeena Parkins
Film Editing - Eleanor Bauer
Sound mastering, location recording and foley - Michael Picknett
Colourist - Luke Bern Carr