Keywords: Digital Media, news, desensitization, marginalized communities, community care
No More News for Nancy is a spoken word, movement, and sound-based digital performance experiment exploring the connection of 24-hour news in marginalized communities.
Nancy is a young Biracial Gen Z millennial cusp who has a very unhealthy relationship with news. Deemed too empathetic by the “system,” Nancy is placed in TIN (Trapped In News), a government program designed to desensitize people of the global majority to news. Through spoken word, dance, and music, Nancy confronts some serious life questions that she is not sure she is equipped to deal with.
“Why do conspiracy theories exist?”
“What was it like to grow up in the generation that was the birth of the digital age?”
“What is the obsession with 24-hour news?”
“How is access to information harmful vs. helpful?”
“What is it like as a black person to consume news that causes unfathomable pain?”
Was it the Twin Towers? The mad cowers? Or Tori, that girl who has been missing for hours?
Performance includes audience “goodie bags” featuring nostalgic 90s/2000s snacks stress relief treats.