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Mankind always dreamt of flying. And man began to fly with the Montgolfier brothers and Otto Lilienthal. Didn’t women want to fly?

Yes, they did! Earhart is about such a woman: Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart, 1928

Amelia Earhart became a celebrity overnight, as she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane in 1929. In her own words she was “nothing more than baggage” with Wilmer Stultz as pilot and Louis Gordon as co-pilot/mechanic.

In 1932 she succeeded to solo the Atlantic crossing as second person after Charles Lindbergh. She was the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

Her celebrity status helped her raise funds for her plans, but just as well distracted her from her flying aspirations. She disappeared in 1937 at the age of forty while circumnavigating the Equator.

Earhart is musically linked to speech, drenched in history and results in highly pulsating stretch polyphony.

It is the first part of Whirly Girls, commissioned by the NFPK+ for Electra. The first performance of Whirly Girls will be in 2011.