Aviary is a new work currently being developed in association with The Australian Ballet for premiere in 2011. Aviary draws inspiration from the music and interests of French composer Oliver Messiaen.
Synopsis
Aviary explores the inherent competitive nature of living creatures, driven by natural selection and embellished by design. Its innate decorative excess has been inspired by Beau Brummell (1778-1840), an arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and the UK celebrity and contemporary version, Sebastian Horsley, as examples of dandyism.
Aviary will be presented in a riot of colour and will be a wonderful ovation to ballet traditions and reprisal of the classical staged fantasy, injected with a dose of contemporaneity and BalletLab sensibilities.
Aviary's first stage, undertaken in 2009, sought to establish a choreographic basis for the work through cross-pollination across classical C20th balletic and contemporary dance techniques by Adams working with BalletLab's dancers and classically trained Australian Ballet dancers.
BalletLab intends to progress the work through four developmental stages in 2010-2011. Aviary will be available to tour 2012-2014.