SE PA RA TI SM
presented by Swallow-a-Bicycle
A live performance about the forces pushing us apart, and what it means to be together.
For almost two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has separated us – physically, ideologically, globally. And that’s not all. It feels like, everywhere we look, there are forces driving us apart. In a swirling, crisis-ridden, divided world, what does it mean to be together?
In Se Pa Ra Ti Sm, four maverick artists, Bianca Guimarães de Manuel, Mark Hopkins, Pam Tzeng and Matthew Waddell, grapple with how anonymous systems shape their identities and relationships, and how those shifting landscapes play out in logic-defying Alberta.
Join them in a world of abstract cowboys, digital avatars, busted stereotypes and modern mythologies, for a vivid and visceral exploration around big questions of self-determination and mutual dependence!
Bianca Guimarães de Manuel – Creator / Performer & Costume Designer
Mark Hopkins – Creator / Performer
Pam Tzeng – Creator / Performer
Matthew Waddell – Creator / Performer
Sky Desjardins – Lighting Designer
Thomas Geddes – Technical Director & Production Manager
Kate Pallesen* – Stage Manager
Jenna Rodgers – Dramaturg
Mike Tan – Documentarian, Rehearsal Director, Workshop Stage Manager
Sarah Uwadiae – Scenographer
Darren Young – Composer & Sound Designer
… and huge thanks to Noriko Marumo, our other workshop stage manager; Morgan Yamada, for the fight choreography consultation; and Mike Czuba, the dramaturg for our very first workshop!
