The Loop
Co-Conceived and Created by
Stefanie Sertich, Lindsay Timmington and Irina Kruzhilina
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LaGuardia Community College
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November 2019
A devised site-specific performance co-created with Stefanie Sertich and Lindsay Timmington, The Loop was a meditation on the past, present and future of LaGuardia Community College and its community.
We gave the 25 students full creative autonomy in the development of the piece: under our collaborative guidance they were the driving force in researching, writing and designing The Loop. Their work led to the creation of five site-specific vignettes, each representing a stage in the development of LaGuardia, from birth to past to present to future to Utopia.
Each vignette was shaped into a highly distinctive visual and performative form, staged at various sites throughout the college. A procession linked these five fragments into a single performance, creating a unified sequence that connected the history of LaGuardia with its current students’ lives, hopes and dreams.
“I feel like ever since taking this (class) I’ve gotten more in tune with myself and knowing what I am comfortable with and what I am not comfortable with”
-Jade Robinson (Actor/Researcher)
“Theatre isn’t just one person, its everyone. You have your pros and cons, you have your arguments, you have your disagreeing. But you also have just something very, very beautiful, and special, which makes theatre great, which makes this play great”
-Una Bharat (Actor/Dancer)
“Creating the show from scratch has showed me that any day, at anytime I can just get a notebook, pencil, and start jotting some things down, and I can create something, I can just get bring along that wants to do something crazy with me and just make art, make something that matters”
-Ely Salgado (Actor/Writer)
“In a way, at first there was so much emotion going around, but right of the bat we started to use that to build who we are as individuals into an ensemble… all of us came together, as one”
-Jewels “The Guy” Lindo (Actor/Rapper)
“I am going to make this idea, with other people, and we are going to write the script together, we are going to design the set together, we are going to do all the lights, all the costumes, all the acting. You can do all of it, yourself…. It’s my art work, you can’t change it, because it is mine”
- Una Bharat (Actor/Dancer)
Creative Team
Co-Conceived and Created by
Stefanie Sertich, Lindsay Timmington and Irina Kruzhilina
Lighting Designer
Christopher Weston
Sound Designer
Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
Stage Manager
Hansol Oh
Technical Director
Michael Alifanz
Student Devisers
Ana Zhapa
Ashley Holmes
Brianna Freeman
Cheyanne Jackson
Dyamee Moore
Elisa Salgado
Giordano Morello
Jaden Robinson
Jeffrey Freeman
Jewels Galindo
Jordan Borges
Joshua Dueno
Lea Gaymon
Malik Pendarvis
Mankirat (Manny) Singh
Moesha Vivas
Monica Tatacoya
Nathea (Nat) Richardson
Patrick Surillo
Rajan Chaudhary
Ramona Ponce
Ricardo Rodriguez
Sheilah Gilot
Talina Herrera Sanchez
Una Bharat