Aviary is a work for eight dancers being made in association with The Australian Ballet, Melbourne composer David Franzke and artist Gavin Brown. Aviary is a work for the caged bird, both real and metaphoric, inspired by the music of French composer Oliver Messiaen.

Consideration of the influence of traditional ballet across contemporary dance technique is the underlying basis for Choreographer Phillip Adams. Aviary explores the inherent competitive nature of living creatures, driven by natural selection and embellished by design, inspired by Beau Brummell (1778-1840), an arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and UK contemporary celebrity, Sebastian Horsley, as examples of dandyism. The wildness of the outside world will be brought into the 'cage' through Brown's florid hand-painted scenic backdrops and Franzke's live playback of recorded birdsong on gramophones. Aviary will be a riot of colour and an ovation to ballet traditions - on a collision course with dandyism and the edifice of the British Monarchy. Aviary is a reprisal of the classical staged fantasy, injected with a dose of contemporaneity and BalletLab eclecticism.