Image: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has announced 'Birdie', a multimedia performance by Barcelona-based theatre collective Agrupación Señor Serrano, for February 10-11, 2027 at the Historic Asolo Theater in Sarasota. The two-night presentation is priced at $40, with performances listed for 7:30 p.m. on both dates. The event appears in The Ringling’s 2026/27 Art of Performance lineup, which also includes dance, jazz, roots, and other live programs across the season.
According to the museum’s event listing, 'Birdie' is an object-theater and film work that combines live action, video projection, soundscapes, and more than 2,000 miniature figures. The performance is described as constructing parallel worlds in tension, with imagery drawing loosely on the atmosphere of 'The Birds'. The piece uses recurring images of birds in flight and descent to frame two interwoven narratives: one centered on ecocide, displacement, and human exploitation, and another suggesting an idyllic but fragile reality.
The Ringling says the work unfolds through cinematic framing and real-time manipulation of models, with the performers exposing how media shapes perception and obscures truth. The piece is presented as a meditation on global inequality and resilience, and the company’s layered structure contrasts beauty and devastation, distance and proximity, control and chaos. The source materials do not provide additional production credits beyond Agrupación Señor Serrano and founder Àlex Serrano, who established the collective in Barcelona in 2006.
Agrupación Señor Serrano is described by The Ringling as an internationally acclaimed theatre collective known for fusing live performance, video, scale models, and digital technology. The company’s work is said to examine contemporary society through layered storytelling and to juxtapose reality and fiction while exploring globalization, media influence, and human behavior. The museum’s language places 'Birdie' within that approach, emphasizing the group’s use of visual systems and mixed media rather than conventional stage narrative.
The performance is part of a season that The Ringling has framed as the 2026/27 Art of Performance lineup. The same season page lists other events including 'Night of Wonder', 'Compagnie Leïla Ka', Georgia Heers, Valerie June, 'SKIN NOISE' by Ringling Artist-in-Residence LaMichael Leonard, Jr., 'Returns Department' by The Kif Kif Sisters, and MicroWIP @ the HAT. For 'Birdie', the museum’s listing notes that subscription sales are already available and that individual tickets will go on sale September 1, 2026.
A separate Ringling page for the same event repeats the Sarasota schedule and identifies the venue as the Historic Asolo Theater. It also provides the box office contact number, 941-360-7399. The event listing ends with a link to the company’s website, srserrano.com, and positions 'Birdie' as part of the museum’s ongoing performance program at the Historic Asolo Theater.
