THE SINCERITY PROJECT #4 (2021)
Cyclones, Schools, and Packs
Presented December 8-12, 2021 by Team Sunshine at the Arch Street Meeting House
Team Sunshine’s ambitious 24-year performance experiment returned with its fourth installment in December 2021. Every two to three years, The Sincerity Project gathers the same group to create a new piece. The work reflects on the years that have passed since the last performance, building a long-term exploration into the shifting contours of contemporary life.
Facilitator and artist Shavon Norris served as the Guest Director for this installment, crafting an event that centered care as a way to reckon with the momentous past two years.
Weaving together performance and collective processing, The Sincerity Project #4 asked:
What does an experience of communal care and protection look, feel and sound like?
How do we gather and move and speak to our individual and collective safety, wholeness, and wellness?
How do we not go alone?
The Sincerity Project #4 provided us with a moment to gather, to be present with the mountainous experiences of these last two years, and helped us learn how we might reach for that something new.
Photos by Johanna Austin, www.AustinArt.org
Cast & Team
Guest Director: Shavon Norris
Creative Director: Alex Torra
Production Manager: Kate Sparacio
Stage Manager: Payton Smith
Ensemble: Aram Aghazarian, Rachel Camp, Benjamin Camp, Danielle Currica, Makoto Hirano, Mel Krodman, Marcie Mamura, Iris McCloughan, Megan Quinn
Audience Experience Manager: Ciara Collins
Video Producer: Danielle Gatto
Production Photographer: Johanna Austin
Lighting and Sound Engineer: Colin J Sass
Singers: Regina Banks, Evan Mayorga
A Special Thank You to our Sincerity Monthly Members!
Amanda Chudnow, Donkey Dover, Erin Read, Charles Meyers, Brian Ratcliffe, Teresa Wilensky, Joshua McLucas, Stephanie Harmelin, Bonnie Paul, Alan Smith, Ellie Furstenberg, Arthur Larrabee, Elizabeth Scanlon, Benjamin Smallen, Liz Green, Laurie McCants, Barbara Domue, Neil Bardhan, Emily Johnson, Lucy Jackson, Ann Callahan, Christie Hartwell, Cliff Schwinger, Alexandria Capone, Jesse Gottschalk, Jake Hooker, Susan Walker, Tim Kelly, Mia Rotondo, Kylin Mettler, Jerene Good, Roxana Torra, Jillian Jetton