Photograph by Paul WattDO YOU NOMI? is a dynamic new production by award-winning director and actor, Grant Smeaton and seminal Scottish choreographer, Alan Greig. Read more …
It is the story of Klaus Nomi, a man with a unique singing talent and his rise to fame in the New York avant garde scene of the 1970s and 80s. It is also the story of a world which would be transformed by the new and much misunderstood AIDS virus.
An interdisciplinary performance weaving together dialogue, dance and theatre, DO YOU NOMI? will take its audience on a humorous, dark and sensual journey. Four male performers will shine a light on the life of Nomi, combining an emotionally driven narrative with the power and athleticism of dance.
This vibrant and visual production will leave the audience in no doubt as to the importance of this forgotten icon.
Do You Nomi? is performed by a company of dancers and actors Jack Webb, Darren Anderson, Drew Taylor and Laurie Brown.
Do You Nomi? is a low-key poignant tribute to the one-off talent, sadly dead at 39, but moreover it is true to the restless, shape-shifting spirit of the 1980s underground scene.
If Do You Nomi? sometimes amounts to less than the sum of its carefully assembled parts, it is still a show of extraordinary, troubling vividness, featuring a beautiful, thought-provoking central performance from Drew Taylor as Nomi, and a stunning playlist by composer Tom Murray.
Appropriately enough, given that Nomi declared himself 'artificial' and 'beyond human', this variable-but-interesting show leaves its strongest impression in the visual sphere; a fact which is largely down to Veronica Rennie's superb recreations of Nomi's costumes.
Having teamed up with actor/ director Grant Smeaton, [Alan] Greig has endeavoured to give dance and theatre equal billing, with limited success.
Theatre preview: Do You Nomi?
On Tour, from Friday February 8, 2013, until Thursday March 7, 2013.
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