POSTURES OF RETURN
Experimental Sound Performance
Written and Composed by CATHERINE NOA ASHLEY with ARIEL HIRSCHHORN and JACK ZORNADO featuring work by David-James.
August 15, 2026
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8:00 PM
Postures of Return is an interdisciplinary performance integrating live sound, voice and projected media to negotiate the need for duality within the self. By offering a look into this internal colloquy, the work questions which ways of knowing best sustain us, and which ask us to contort. Through this lens, Postures of Return traces how a Black femme body shifts posture, voice and presence across moments of internal love and misunderstanding.
Artist Bio:
Catherine Noa Ashley is a multimedia designer and performance artist working across sound, installation, and moving image. By leaning on the senses, Ashley creates portals of awareness that attune viewers to the inexorability of time, the echoes of history and the fluidity of identity. Ashley’s work has been shown at the Flynn Center, the Santa Fe Opera, Struer Tracks, the RISD Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, The Brick Theatre, The Makers Space, Wilbury Theatre Group among others. MFA in Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design. Part time faculty at Parsons School of Design and RISD. Current Resident with Woodward Residency. Studio Theatre Apprenticeship Alum.
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