In Honest Process, Thea Little and collaborators excavate and reinvent ideas of ego, commercialism, and narcissism toward collective ambition, vulnerability, and the wise self. By utilizing a wash of abstract gestures, vocals, and facial expressions that form a communicative internal language, Honest Process exposes a sometimes serious, sometimes playful relation to healing and all that healing can look and feel like. Within Honest Process, there is a strong sense of listening to one another, gently acknowledging and seeing the audience, being patient with time and space, as well as a healthy dose of over-the-top improvisation, competition and humor. Honest Process acknowledges that healing is not always neat or linear and is an active and engaging journey. Choreographer Thea Little will be performing alongside Katie Norton-Bliss and Lea Torelli. Other collaborators include costume and set designer Nicole Lane Fulmer, sound designer Brian McCorkle, and dramaturg and choreographer’s assistant Emily Aiken.

Thea Little is a Brooklyn-based performer, composer, choreographer, and musician. Her solos and group works are at the intersection of dance-theater, experimental vocals and performance art. She studied classical piano for ten years and as a self-taught composer, has created more than fifty sound scores performed both domestic and abroad. Little spent six years with the School of American Ballet and holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University and a Bachelors degree from Columbia University. Thea has performed in traditional and experimental venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including The Whitney Museum, The Traveling Trolley in Kingston NY, WUK Conservatoire in Vienna and David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. She has worked with artists such as Neta Pulvermacher, Moving Theater, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Panoply Lab, Anaïs Maviel, LEIMAY and the Feminist Art Group (F.A.G.). In April 2018, Little presented two sold-out performances of her evening-length work, Extraordinarily Inverse, at the Center for Performance Research (CPR). Most recently she performed her solo works at The New School for Women Between Arts and at the Asia Society for Dancing My Truth alongside luminous performers such as Eiko Otake and Michelle Boulé. National Sawdust is presenting Thea’s evening-length vocal-dance trio Honest Process on July 11, 2019 as part of her 2018-2019 Artist-in-Residence at the organization.