The Loop

Co-Conceived and Created by

Stefanie Sertich, Lindsay Timmington and Irina Kruzhilina

LaGuardia Community College

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.

The Loop 1

“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)

The Loop 2

“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)

The Loop 3

“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)

The Loop 4

“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)

The Loop 4

“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)

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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