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Part dance theatre, part live improvisation, part performative lecture. Manage Your Expectations takes the idea of the ‘trigger warning’ to its absurdist extreme using humour to question how ‘informed’ consent can really be and asking ‘How much do you really want to know?’

Created and performed by House of Sand’s own multi-award winning maverick of the stage Eliza Sanders, Manage Your Expectations helps us to see the limits of the power to communicate, and our failures to say what we mean. Through a unique blend of dance, clown and absurd philosophising, performer and audience engage in a deeply imperfect exchange, musing on the influence of context, identity and personal history.

Manage Your Expectations Is full of vigour and energy with a hint of confrontation and chaos in this mind (and body) bending show.

MANAGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS

AS PART OF NZ FRINGE

TE AUAHA
65 Dixon Street
Te Aro
WELLINGTON

FEB 27 - MAR 2 2024 @ 8:00PM

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That was friday

world premier season 23rd - 26th November 2022 Belconnen Arts Centre, canberra

now available for touring

A bold new contemporary performance work about being a stranger in your homeland and at home in strange lands.

“Clever, frequently brilliant and techologically titilating…” [stun magazine]

“ A stunning achievement in brave storytelling.” [city news)

Collaborative theatre at it’s most honest, most revealing, and beautifully performed.

A unique theatrical event.”
[peter wilkins, canbera critics circle]

Conceived by Charley Sanders and Eliza Sanders
Created and written by Charley Sanders, Eliza Sanders, Jack Sullivan and Amrit Tohari Agamemnoian with the ensemble

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Video design by Laura Turner
Original score by Mario Späte
Garments by Monique Bartosh
Lighting Design by Tony Black
Featuring Enya Daly, Alec Katsourakis, Billy Keohavong, Lachlan Martin, Ryan Stone, Ella Williams, Jareen Wee, Amrit Tohari Agamemnoian and Sara Zwangobani

A dark theatre, lights come up, and Five Dancers groove like daggy dads at a school dance to an incredibly sexy cover of Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”. A young man jumps between them - thrashing something out - and a young woman projected on screen with half-packed suitcase, waits for someone to answer her phone call.

In the coming moments you’ll learn that the young man and woman are siblings who’s mother has just died. And you’ll meet an immigrant artist with profound ideas and a fluid gender expression.

Over the next two hours the mother struggles to keep her kids close; the son falls blindingly in love; and the daughter grapples with a life changing surprise. You’ll learn that the immigrant artist is a refugee from a place where their very existence is a crime, and the dancers will carry you through the web of interconnection between them towards a place where family is found, re-found or chosen anew; where you can honour the past you got handed, and celebrate who you have chosen to become.

Moulded from the experience of the queer, trans & culturally diverse team, That Was Friday layers dance, theatre and video in a theatrical collage of humans searching for home. This ground-breaking new work fills the gaps between art forms to create a new experience of connection.

Darkly humorous, joyful, and visually stunning, That Was Friday will take your heart and squeeze it.

That Was Friday’S premiere season was by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the ACT Government; Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund and MATCH Lab; the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative; Ausdance ACT and QL2.

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Charley
sanders

co artistic director

+61 (0) 430 965 946
company@houseofsand.org

Eliza
sanders

co artistic director

+64 (0) 21 161 5997
company@houseofsand.org