…from one glasse to another. A festival of voice and video. Day 1. 11 December 2026, 7.30pm
Day 1 of …from one glasse to another, a transdisciplinary festival of voice and video curated by Sam Belinfante.
Nora Fischer, The Leap
In Ovid’s story Echo and Narcissus play creatively and provocatively with sonic and visual image making; Echo – particularly – is able to conjure new meaning and form through vocal repetition and mimicry. Beyond profound relations between light and sound, the stories are replete with issues of emptiness and fullness of self, of absorption and reflection.
Musarc presents a series of musical vignettes that restage Echo and Narcissus’ dialogues through modern and seemingly outmoded audiovisual technology.
Photo: Nichon Glerum
Nora Fisher performs The Leap
The Leap is a one-woman performance by vocalist Nora Fischer, except for the unexpected twist that Singer Nora will not be present on stage. Instead, Person Nora will be explaining why she will not be singing. For a while, she was unable to do so because of a complex cramp that was keeping her larynx in such a strong headlock that even Happy Birthday for her best friends was no longer an option. How could such a thing happen?
With this burning question, Nora starts digging for answers: from the pressure of the world's largest stages, to the inner pressure that she had to remove from her system like a wasp's poisonous sting. She unravels how the joy with which she once produced her frst notes, gradually got overshadowed by piercing eyes and razor sharp judgments. There is no shortage of demons behind the successful performer she had become – and among those demons is Nora's sister, who falls deeper and deeper into darkness as Nora's voice falls into silence.
But Nora is not the type to simply give up: there is a reason her parents used to call her “The Tank”. In the midst of the ruins, she demands answers: how can the radiating joy with which two girls started their lives, evolve into such an all-encompassing cramp? Who told us to get so caught up in suffocating perfectionism? In this grippingly tragic yet humorous storytelling performance, Nora invites her audience to join her in a highly intimate disclosure of what we secretly all know: nothing is what it seems.
Venue Information
Stone Nest
136 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1D 5EZ
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Stone Nest is an old building and unfortunately cannot currently accommodate electric wheelchairs. The venue can accommodate manually operated wheelchairs at ground floor level via a temporary ramp; please let us or the venue know that you are a wheelchair user when booking and whether a Companion will be accompanying you via the email info@stonenest.org and we will arrange a Companion ticket for you. Unfortunately the basement bar Below Stone Nest cannot currently accommodate wheelchair users.
Tickets
£18 (£14 Limited Concessions) tickets are available from Ticket Tailor.
You can also buy a Festival Ticket for the events on 11 and 12 December for £27. Donations in support of Musarc’s artists and ensemble programme are welcome.
