she bike spoke love
  heart
 
  HOME BASE
   
  THE TOUR
   
  THE HUB
   
  THE SPOKES
   
  THE DEDICATION
   
  THE JOURNEY
   
  MEDIA TRAIL
   
  THE BIG WHEELS
   
  CONTACT
   
  SHE: Bike/Spoke/Love
  bicyclea bicycle love story

Spoken word theatre play which celebrates


the bicycle
(as daily transportation and symbol of self-reliance)

and bicyclist
(as empowered activist and cultural rebel)

This full-length multimedia work features the innovative use of poetry, lyrical dialogue, freestyle and choreographed bicycling, video sequences, and a turntablist.

ESA, the main character in She: Bike/Spoke/Love, is a young woman in her early 20s who loves her bicycle because it allows her to: explore her deepest musings and yearnings; escape the pressures of family and other figures of authority; and discover her own true path.

As ESA agitates against her mother, she begins to assert a strong ethic of self-empowerment. But the mother, flung into a morass of self-doubt and internal scrutiny, eventually delivers herself from her own restrictive thinking and joins her impassioned bicycling daughter in a last-minute attempt towards inter-generational understanding.

And then there's the boyfriend...
   
   A Sound Culture Production • Contact Tammy Gomez at sound_culture@hotmail.com