Cellista’s Elegie with NYSZA

Cellista’s Élégie with NYSZA

A stage poem for aerial cello
Directed and performed by Cellista

Élégie tells the story of a blackbird who shapeshifts into human form and back. Élégie awakens one day in her magical tree outside the walled off city of Cloture to find its entire population has disappeared. In their departure, the citizens have left behind a city of altars, decorated with unlit candles; each containing the memories and mementos of the banished citizens.

NYSZA (pronounced nice-uh)

is a 24-year-old artist hailing from the Garhwal Himalayas in India. Raised in military camps across India, she eventually found her way to London, UK driven by her pursuit of freedom to think, love, and create. Blending traditional folk storytelling with poetry, electronic soundscapes, and world rhythms, NYSZA creates an eclectic brand of jazz-informed urban-world-fusion that exists in the liminality of genre.