An exploration of the evolutionary theories of flight origins.
“Flight Origins” is an excerpt from Theory of Flight, a fantasia of avian obsession in which a scientist’s biology lecture on flight goes awry when she reveals her own extreme experiments. Dreams of flight, avian arias, a magical chalkboard, transgenic experiments, animated cellular processes, orchestral bird songs, and molecular music intersect in an emotional and scientific pursuit of human flight.
For an extended version of “Flight Origins” visit
vimeo.com/24791092
For more about Theory of Flight, including a movie of the whole performance visit
askewmusic.com/TheoryFlight.html
Anna Lindemann | composer, animator, writer
Lucy Fitz Gibbon | soprano, bird spirit
Anna Lindemann | scientist
Emma Lunbeck | consulting director
Kathy High & Jim de Sève | videographers
Kylin Mettler | costume designer
Jay Maury | lighting designer
Julia Alsarraf | sound engineer & stage manager
Ellie Markovitch & Rose Mitchell | Flying Feast designers
Nicholas Stipinovich & Sena Clara Creston | props fabricators
William Fritz | rigger
Synful Orchestra | electronic music realization
Bonnie Mettler | graphic design
Premiered and Filmed at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Goodman Studio, Troy NY in April 2011
Theory of Flight is funded in part by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts and the RPI Arts Department
Special Thanks
Michael Century, Kathy High, Shawn Lawson, David Rothenberg, Eric Lindemann, Bonnie Mettler, Yehuda Duenyas, Jim de Sève, Ellie Markovitch, Rose Mitchell, Eleanor Liu, Branda Miller, Tomie Hahn, Laura Garrison, Jenn Mumby, Curtis Bahn, Larry Kagan, Bill Bergman, Amina Shabbeer, Jean Purtell, Bill Fritz, Johannes Goebel, Geoff Mielke, Laura Desposito, Eric Brucker, Mick Bello, Todd Vos, Stephen McLaughlin, Jeff Svatek, Stephanie Tribu-Cromme, Angel Eads, Ryan Jenkins, Jason Steven Murphy, Avery Stempel, Ian Hamelin, John Cook, Laura Perfetti, CathyJo Kile, and Zhenelle Falk, Richard Prum and Antónia Monteiro
Copyright 2011