In 20XX, a security specialist named Kawabi wants what everyone wants: to leave behind the scars of sickness, hunger, and war… and lead a new life in a new body. She joins The Grove, an idealistic start-up with a fleet of bioengineered and shareable bodies. But when a hostile entity hacks The Grove’s network, colonizing the minds and bodies of its inhabitants, Kawabi must rescue her new home… by reckoning with a ghost of the past.

A new work of science-fiction created by interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures, led by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Conor Wylie. Originally planned as a live theatre performance, K BODY AND MIND re-envisioned as an episodic miniseries for viewing at home, and now exists in both online and multimedia live performance formats. Blending overloaded 90s anime and cyberpunk aesthetics with an off-kilter and mesmerizing minimalist performance style, K BODY AND MIND is an impossible sci-fi epic performed by two bodies in an abandoned 100-year-old theatre.

Director + Writer: Conor Wylie

Performers: Jasmine Chen + Donna Soares + Anjela Magpantay

Sound design: Nancy Tam

Visual design: Daniel O’Shea

Movement collaboration: Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien

Story + Accessibility collaboration: Amy Amantea + VocalEye

Producing Stage Manager: Anjela Magpantay

Costume design: Leah Weinstein

Script Consultant: Shawn Macdonald

Camera Operators: Lukas Hyrman, Luc Forsyth, Thomas Chiasson

Sound Mixer 2: Ira Jordison

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