FISHNETS
‘Fishnets’ are not appropriate for work. Fishnets are a trap.
Fishnets are back in style, a tangle of enmeshed gaps.
Trawling deep for pleasure, there’s surprises in the catch,
old mess and wrecks long-laid in depths
that can’t just be thrown back.
‘Fishnets’ sees Annie and Emilia tangling and unravelling, as they navigate romance, intimacy, pleasures, and pressures, as a trans and migrant couple dreaming of borderless futures.
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Devised and Performed: Emilia Nurmukhamet and Dear Annie
Costume: Amy-Rose Edlyn
Projection and Lighting Design: Nurul Wardani (Slice of Light Design)
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‘Fishnets’ is an innovative live-art performance weaving together live music and dance. ‘Fishnets’ is a show about clumsily reclaiming bliss from binarily sanctioned shapes, and loving every part.
The live electronic music soundscape consists of rich synths and snippets of field recordings, woven through rhythm to summon a sense of occasion, transporting the duo between a formal ball, a club, and a tranquil forest glade. A miniature pipe-organ carries the audience through these various landscapes with airy dreamlike melodies. The movement shifts between physical theatre into absurdity from recognisable gestures, and dance that explores flow, interruption and the impossibility of repetition.
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‘Fishnets’ has so far been created through performances across London at Dulwich Picture Gallery (02.2026), The National Maritime Museum (08.2025), Ugly Duck (05.2025) and Rich Mix (03.2025).
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We are actively seeking support to develop Fishnets into a full length performance - a transportative collage of queer relationship dynamics, stretching concrete reality with gender-blurring fantasy.
“The dance was mesmerising. ”
“The fragile yet unbreakable connection between the two of them was felt as they moved amongst the space.”
“An intimate-moment-made-public”
Performance Photography
By Amy-Rose Edlyn & Egi Amarudin
