PINCH
What contradictions live inside your sense of security? Urgent, absurd, and darkly funny—this is not a drill.
PINCH is a surreal collision of dance-theater and emergency ritual. Swerving through the American Psyche™, a trio of characters encounter myths of preparedness. At each turn, they keep asking, breaking, cracking: Who taught you to move safely?
Drawing from safety drills staged in corporate, educational, and governmental settings, the trio stretches, subverts, and restages the mechanics of control. Out of their friction emerges a disruptive and comedic work that layers improvisation, physical comedy, fantastical reimaginings, wigs, and shock with a side of awe.
Asking not just how we survive, but who gets to feel safe and at what cost, PINCH stages a work where we twitch through our learnings – safety as its own absurd choreography.
Credits
Devised and Performed by: Neva Guido, Sophia Halimah Parker, Sacha Vega with appearances by Tina Bararian
Choreography: Sacha Vega
Writing: Sacha Vega
Original audio composition: James Gentile + Zack Kelley-Onett
Live sound: James Gentile
Lighting Design: Kyle Driggs
Producer: Cole Stapleton
Additional Production Support: Logan Kerr
Photo: Max Branigan
Performances:
December 12th at 8pm
December 13th at 8pm
Venue:
3AM Theatre
920 35th Ave, #3N
Queens, NY
This piece is made possible through a co-presentation partnership with 3AM Theatre.
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A work in progress version of this piece on April 12, 2024 at Theaterlab in NYC. An evening-length version premiered as part of Philly Fringe X Cannonball Festival 2024. Performed 9/19/2024 and 9/20/2024 at MAAS Studio Building in Philadelphia, PA.
Credits for PINCH 2024
Devised and performed by: Tina Bararian, Avery Gerhardt, and Sacha Vega
Concept and writing: Sacha Vega
Dramaturgy: Sophia Parker
Original composition: James Gentile and Zach Kelly-Onett
Audio mixing and live sound: James Gentile
All photography: Max Branigan
Images below from 2024 version of the piece.
