Experience Birdie, a genre-defying production that blends documentary images, stagecraft, and visual poetry to offer a playful yet powerful artistic reflection on migration and the contradictions of our globalized world. The show begins with a striking photograph: migrants clinging to a fence in Melilla, while golfers play on E.U. soil a few meters away. On stage, three magnetic performers manipulate cameras, scale models, and over 2,000 miniature animals to project a universe where the smallest details become vast landscapes—where Hitchcock’s The Birds echoes threats and hopes of today, and where everyday objects build metaphors for mass movement, consumer society, and human resilience.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Founded by Àlex Serrano in Barcelona in 2006, Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theatre company that creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary times. The company uses the richness of innovative and vintage tools to extend the boundaries of its theater. Based on creative collaborations, Señor Serrano’s productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and scale models to stage stories about discordant aspects of today’s human experience. The company’s productions premiere and tour mostly internationally. At present, Agrupación Señor Serrano’s core includes Àlex Serrano, Pau Palacios and Barbara Bloin. David Muñiz and Paula S. Viteri complete the stable structure of the company. For each production, the company has also counted on the essential collaboration of a cross-disciplinary and variable creative team. Agrupación Señor Serrano was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2015. The company has also been recognized nationally and internationally with awards such as Premi Ciutat de Barcelona o el Premi FAD Sebastià Gasch.

CREDITS

FUNDING + SUPPORT

A production by Grec 2016 Festival de Barcelona / Agrupación Señor Serrano / Fabrique de Théâtre – Service des Arts de la Scène de la Province de Hainaut / Festival TNT – Terrassa Noves Tendències / Monty Kultuurfaktorij / Festival Konfrontacje Teatralne. With the support of Cultural Office of Spain’s Embassy in Brussels / Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya / Centre International de Formation en Arts du Spectacle de Bruxelles / Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y la Música (INAEM) / Institut Ramon Llull.

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