Nourishment
Nourishment is a series of an evening-length, site-specific and multi-sensory performance experiences that uses the collaboration of dance, theater, live music, storytelling, new media, set design, food, and drinks to investigate a viscerally-charged question. Nourishment is committed to creating boundary pushing, experiential and intimate art performances that invite the audience to tap into their own feelings and memories through their five-senses. Nourishment performances partner with local communities and source all food/drinks as locally, sustainably, and responsibly as possible.
Photo by Jade Warner
Recent Nourishment projects include:
Nourishment: Why Believe? (NYC)
Nourishment: Why Believe? (Denver)
Nourishment: what does it feel like to grow up? (NYC)
Nourishment: what does it feel like to grow up? (Denver)
Nourishment: what does it feel like to fall in love? (Denver)
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Nourishment: Why Believe? (NYC)
“By blurring the lines between the collaborators’ artistic expressions of choice, and even between the performers and the spectator, Gussman guides the audience away from the othering often intrinsic to the performing arts with a gentle reminder that beyond those distinctions lies a shared humanity.” -Courtney Escoyne, The Stewardship Report
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Nourishment: Why Believe? (Denver)
“The performance guided the audience into this awe and feeling through participation and sensory stimulation. Food and drink were used as invitations of pleasure, bringing the audience back into their own bodies, and therefore, the houses of our own beliefs.” -Molly Davidson
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Nourishment: what does it feel like to grow up? (NYC)
"...the disconnect between one performer weeping through a tough recounting of a very real event and another having abstract thoughts about an unclear concept give audience a way to empathize or muse on what it means to perform." -Quinn Batson, offoffoff.com
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Nourishment: what does it feel like to grow up? (Denver)
“The piece continually centers around exposure, release, contraction and the realization, the notion, that maybe, upon looking back, you were perfect; exactly what you were supposed to be.” -Stragand, Presenting Denver
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Nourishment: what does it feel like to fall in love? (Denver)
"The whirl-wind, the ache, the excitement, that ability to take such a banal subject as love and to transcend the normative ideation. The partnership tugged on the heartstrings and brought about fulfillment." -Presenting Denver