FLYWAY

Created by Lz Dunn and produced by Aphids, FLYWAY investigates the annual perilous journey across the globe by migratory birds. Audiences were taken on a sensory bird-watching tour through the city, provided with an immersive soundtrack created by Lawrence English and looking for hijacked screens displaying mediated ethereal imagery. Using video, sound and performance FLYWAY merges foreground and background and creates a thought-provoking and queer experience of ‘nature’.

Commissioned to design and construct the costume design for FLYWAY, I incorporated tailored elements, a leather harness and remote-controlled fibre optic ‘wings’ that illuminate as dusk falls upon Dunn and the audience they have led through the urban environment to the water’s edge. Inspiration was drawn from notions of visibility/invisibility, transience, old flying paraphernalia, the musician Fatima al Qadiri and Dunn’s own personal style.

Flyway was shown at the Operadagen Rotterdam, Netherlands (18-24 May 2014) and the International Theatre Festival "Varna Summer", Bulgaria (5-12 June 2014).