House of Sand Presents Knitting While Sleeping

House of Sand Presents Knitting While Sleeping

WELLINGTON FRINGE FESTIVAL FEB 24 - 27 @ 9PM
Bats - The Dome, 1 Kent Tce, Mt Victoria

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How do we respond to the inevitable chaos?

‘Knitting While Sleeping’ is a dance work which splits the audience in two. The work provokes inner and outer chaos by disturbing and distorting the proximity to and perception of performance.

Rows of people lying in place: are they rows of students in a dormitory? rows of displaced people in a refugee camp? rows of bodies in a graveyard? Whatever they are they are not in control of their situation.
And the guardians of those bodies: Will they fulfil their role as caregivers, or belie it?

Creator Eliza Sanders explains:
“Half the audience are seated traditionally in the seating bank, the other half lie in rows on the stage floor, And then a group of female performers enter the space. Their proximity to the bodies on the floor is full of potential.
We move from an ordered procession to a state of high chaos, the risk (or perceived risk) on the stage grows exponentially. A little like ‘Cafe Muller’ but bodies replace chairs.
Conceptually, by placing the audience on the stage, it also asks the audience to reconsider the nature of performativity: what does it mean to ‘perform’ in art, and in the world. To perform a dance,to perform an act of care, to take action on a local or global scale. ”

Eliza graduated the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) in 2014 and has been creating solo work and traveling the world developing her craft for the last year. ‘Knitting While Sleeping’ takes inspiration from inner conflicts - linking population growth and global citizenship to the feminine instinct and women’s roles as caregivers - together with Eliza’s virtuosic technique, in her first full length work for multiple dancers.

Eliza has assembled a team full of experience and energy: Award winning Sydney based director Charles Sanders (NIDA, EarlyWorx, STCSA) comes on board as dramaturge, multi-faceted composer Mario Spate (Mio, The Killgirls) designs sound, and four of NZSD’s brightest emerging talents bring the work to life.

Creator & Choreographer - Eliza Sanders
Dramaturge - Charles Sanders
Dancers - Laura Beanland-Stephens, Jadyn Burt, Tyler Carney, Sophie Gargan
Sound Design - Mario Spate

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