PINCH - Philadelphia Fringe Festival

PINCH

Sacha Vega, with Tina Bararian + Avery Gerhardt

Dance, Immersive/Interactive Experience

PINCH is an experimental dance work that blurs the fine (story)line between preparedness and chaos in the American psyche. This is not a drill. With humor, poetics, and absurdity, a trio of characters keep asking: Who taught you to move safely? What contradictions are held in your sense of security?

Tina Bararian, Avery Gerhardt, and Sacha Vega collectively devised and perform PINCH. Invested in probing their learnings around emergency responses, the performers turned to and pushed back against safety drills enacted at corporate, educational, and governmental levels. When does choreography enter or avoid the audacious hustle of embodying readiness? Out of their friction emerged this evening-length piece, which contains improvisational scores, safety simulations, piles of bodies, wigs, and warnings to tell a tale of shock and awe.

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Details

Run Time: 45 mins

Ticket Price: $25

Venue: MAAS Studio
Dates: September 19, 2024 - September 20, 2024

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September 19, 2024 6.30pm

1320 N 5th St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

September 20, 2024 9.30pm

1320 N 5th St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

About the Artist

Sacha Vega is an artist who collages across movement, poetics, and humor to invite focus into the ideologies that train our bodies to move. Working in concert with performers and audiences alike, shes invested in using her practice as an experimental space to test beliefs of authority, horizontal organization, and temporary utopias. She has exhibited and performed at Westbeth Gallery, Theaterlab, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Mason Gross Galleries, Baxter St x CCNY, Java Projec. She’s been in residence at LEIMAYs Incubator Program, Wassaic Project, Van Noord Van Noord, Casa Tagumerche, Stoneleaf Retreat, and ARTHA Project. She has a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Avery Gerhardt is an independent choreographer and freelance performer from Houston, Texas. She began her training at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts and graduated with a BFA from the Boston Conservatory. Founder and resident choreographer of Motlee Party, Avery has created and toured original works in Europe and the US. Her ongoing collaboration with Sacha Vega continues to inspire her practice, alongside her passion for writing, dramaturgy, and production.

Tina Bararian is an award-winning modern dancer, choreographer, and actor. She holds degrees in Film Studies from York University and Dance Performance from George Brown College. After earning her BFA, Tina moved to New York City to advance her studies at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Upon graduating in 2023, Tina founded her own dance company in New York and premiered her first piece, 'Not Here, ' at the Spoke The Hub residency, where she was honored with the People's Choice Artist Award. She is also the visionary curator and founder of "Dancers Of Iran, " a global artistic project and platform dedicated to showcasing dancers of Iranian descent, created in response to the prohibition of dance in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 18+

Violent Content

Adult Language

Strobe/Flashing Lights

Audience Interaction

Fog/Smoke Effects

Covid-19 Safety policy

Masks are required during this event