The Sincerity Project #4 (2021)
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 it 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.
The Sincerity Project Performance History
Sincerity #5 (2024) Presented by FringeArts
Sincerity #4 (2021) Presented by Team Sunshine Performance at the Arch Street Meeting House
Sincerity #3 (2019) Presented by FringeArts
Sincerity #2 (2016) Presented by FringeArts at Plays & Players Theater
Sincerity #1 (2014) Presented by FringeArts
Team (Sincerity #4)
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
Photos Johanna Austin
Support
The Sincerity Project has been developed, in part, through The Orchard Project, the Live Arts Brewery (LAB) Fellowship program, and the First Person Arts RAW Program. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Wyncote Foundation, the Charlotte Cushman Foundation, FringeArts, and the Swarthmore Faculty Research Support Grant, and our Kickstarter Supporters.