What I liked
I always appreciate a fully physical performance, and Annalisa Limardi puts her body through the wringer to bring NO to the audience. It’s not just that it’s meticulously (and impactfully) choreographed, but also that it demonstrates a high degree of strength and control to do.
What I didn't like
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My overall impression
It feels strange, and almost reductive, to call a performance “brave,” and it’s a word I don’t often use when talking about a show. But there’s really no other word for NO.
It’s a show that lays a single performer completely bare to a maximal emotional degree. Recreating not just personal experience but a whole system of abuses, expectations, and microaggressions through an amalgamation of slam poetry, soundscaping, and kinetic movement unlike anything I’ve really seen before. I am not exaggerating when I say I was moved to literal tears.
