Shavon Norris
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator, and facilitator. She uses movement along with text, sound, and imagery to reveal the stories living in our bodies. Her work explores our relationship to our identities, our experiences, and to each other. An examination and celebration of what we feel, think, and believe. As an artist her work has been presented at venues in NYC and Philadelphia.
As a performer, she has performed for Silvana Cardell, Leah Stein, Merian Soto, makini poe, and toured with Pig Iron Theatre Company. As a facilitator, she works with artistic, educational, and corporate institutions, offering learning on topics of Creativity, Inclusivity, and Healing Centered/Trauma Informed Practices. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to offer herself, learners, performers, and audiences, opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. She loves the living and working she gets to do in the world.
Awarded Grants
2024
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Shavon Norris’ project, THE CRONING SESSIONS, will invite elder Black women (60+ years old) and middle-aged Black women (40-60 years old) to explore what it means to age with curiosity, pleasure, and in community. The project will utilize interviews, story circles, and movement explorations within performance-based facilitation workshops that will engage participants in framing and defining beauty, value, and health for themselves and will serve as research for the creation and performance of THE CRONING, a movement and theater piece, which will premiere in 2026.
