WOMAD

Z-Girl

From Australia

Tsubi Du, a freelance designer, performer and musician based in Adelaide, has spent the past 20 years refining her puppetry, circus and street theatre skills - in addition to crafting brilliant and original costumes and props for theatre productions. Her talents combine in striking works that explore themes of female empowerment, using recycled goods in a cheeky form of mutation/adaptation, laced with a rich seam of humor. Illustrating this mesh of creative ideas best (and hot off the cutting table) are Tsubi's newest creations - Z-Girl and G-Girl. Z-Girl is part circus-star, part zebra, who trots along loftily among festival audiences, always attracting attention for her boldly stripped leggy attire, yet once she's become the centre of attention, with a snicker and a swish of her tail, she's gone to seek greener pastures. (G-Girl, a strikingly familiar cousin to Z-Girl, is part-giraffe.) Z-Girl premiered at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival in the UK and soon became legend (rumour has it that she was kidnapped one night, but that was obviously just another unsuspecting zebra) and photographs of Z-Girl even featured in Q Magazine's Glastonbury Review.