WE PULL THE TRIGGER
We Pull The Trigger is a roving portrait of togetherness in motion. A kinky ensemble falls, collides, and caresses — queering relationships to the city, each other, and to you. We blur the boundaries between watching, being watched and joining up. When everything falls apart, what else do we have but you and me?
Before the show, you’re invited to make a bracelet to add to the community basket.
Audience participation
This is a free-range performance across a large, flat space. Choose your point of view: move close, step back, shift around, or settle in. How you witness is entirely up to you.
Participation is optional, signaled by a bracelet. Wearing a bracelet means you’re open to interaction, if and when it happens. No bracelet tells the performers you’d prefer to observe without interaction. You can change your mind anytime by slipping one on or off.
The venue is ADA accessible. Audience members with mobility devices are welcome to roam or make use of designated viewing areas. Suggested audience age is 16+.
Creative Team
Adam Kerbel
Choreographer
Annie Peterson
Performer/Co-Creator
Vitche-Boul Ra
Performer/Co-Creator
Loren Groenendaal
Performer/Co-Creator
Zeze Schorsch
Performer/Co-Creator
Gene Farbe
Outside eye/Co-Creator
Support Team
Interactive Play Lab
Interactive Design Consultant
Anna Kiraly
Setting and Design Consultant
Performer/Co-Creator Biographies
Annie Peterson (she/they) is obsessed with the tension of performance, showing the play in concentration, and the often awkward sublime. Annie is a movement and video artist, creative producer, and arts administrator whose work has been shown at MAAS (Philadelphia), Rhizome (DC), Dance Place (DC), Grapefruit Studios (Milwaukee), EXPS/SLC (Salt Lake City), and in various fields and living rooms. Annie is a Fieldwork facilitator and is one of the seven artists powering hall pass, a new project space in Philadelphia.
Loren Groenendaal is a dance artist holding an MFA from UNC Greensboro, BA from Oberlin, and CMA from LIMS. Loren performs and teaches contact, comedy and dance improvisation and modern dance with open classes at Cardell Dance Studio. Loren is the founder of Vervet Dance as creative outlet for work that is often interdisciplinary, collaborative, inspired by nature and humanity, and includes improvisation in composition. Loren is delighted to bring the honed skills of improvisation into the challenge of an immersive, interactive work of “We Pull The Trigger” by the brilliant Adam Kerbel and is excited to discover what emerges.
Vitche-Boul Ra is a Transhumanist Folk-Theurgist with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Sculpture concentration) from The University of the Arts [2018] with additional studies in Dance. Ra investigates Black sovereignty through Performativity and Possibility as a medium. A Philadelphia native, It has shown at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vox Populi and more. In NYC, Ra presented in both Movement Research and Black Aesthetics/J.A.W. at Judson Church in 2023. Continually It collaborates with Moor Mother [Goddess] stateside and internationally. In 2021 It lectured at Yale School of Art and in 2023 Ra showed at the Murray Art Museum Albury in Albury, NSW (Australia) in addition to being awarded a 2023 Pew Fellowship.
Zeze Schorsch (she/they) is hungry, horny, hairy, and haunted and uses any artistic medium to deal with that. Their work is usually on a stage, though. Since choreographing their first concert WISDOM TEETH in 2018, they've performed on stages throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now Philadelphia, PA. Here they have presented work in Cedar Becher's YEILD series, choreographed for Gene Farbe's Little Orphan Annie But All Adults, and continues their involvement in the Fieldwork workshops facilitated in Philly by Annie Peterson. This October, Schorsch is collaborating with Becher on the 24-hour performance To Time presented at hall pass
Outside Eye
Gene Farbe makes things you can see, touch, hear and sometimes smell. They also make jokes. Originally from New Orleans this Uarts grad hopes to crack your heart open with humor just enough to have some questions about the world sneak in. Gene was a 2023 recipient of the Leeway grant and won a Fringie in 2024.
Choreographer
Adam Kerbel (he/him/el) is a movement artist and choreographer working across choreography, improvisation, and hybrid forms as tools for reflection and connection. With roots in theater, circus, puppetry, and experimental performance, his work has been presented by New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, The Music Center, and Breaking Walls Festival. He established Performa Choreographic, a platform for brave new dance, co-founded Almanac, and previously produced Cannonball. Kerbel creates spaces for shifting cultures. Visit performachoreo.com. Follow @performa.dance
About the Project Team
Performa Choreographic is a platform for brave new dance, based in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, established by Adam Kerbel. Performa supports artists through a community-centered, multi-city model that offers guidance and tools across the creative process. Kerbel is a movement artist working with choreography, improvisation, and hybrid forms to foster reflection and connection. His work is rooted in theater, circus, puppetry, and experimental performance and has been presented by New York Live Arts, Jacobs Pillow, The Music Center, and more. He co-founded Almanac, produced Cannonball, and creates movement attuned to shifting cultures.
Added Thanks
Rodney Murray
Katherine Desimine
Equilibrium Dance Academy
hall pass
su Güzy
Cannonball Festival
FringeArts
