The Loop
Environmental Designer
A devised site-specific performance, The Loop was a meditation on the past, present and future of LaGuardia Community College and its community. In a design-driven laboratory process, co-led by Stefanie Sertich, Lindsay Timmington and Irina Kruzhilina, students explored various strategies for creating site-specific environments, identifying and augmenting the spaces for their performance, and writing narratives inspired by the history and aesthetics of their sites. To create material for The Loop the students dove into LaGuardia’s archives, interviewed staff and students throughout the school, and connected the history of LaGuardia with their own 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
Location
LaGuardia Community College, New York, 2019