Every Monday 9 - 10:30am
Koha entry
A contemporary dance class for professional independent dancers in Wellington.
To sign up:
contact Eliza: eliza@houseofsand.org
House of Sand is run by sibling creative partnership Eliza Sanders and Charley Sanders. They created madcap, visceral performance work with a signature expressionistic style in and across artworks including theatre, dance, cabaret and visual & performance art.
"Eliza and Charley Sanders are important artists who give us an alternate view of the world" — Suzy Wrong, Suzy goes see & Auditorium (UK)
We came together through a shared belief that the dance and theatre worlds could learn a lot by looking to each other for innovative new ways of working and modes of performance, and it just so happened that we each had siblings on the other side of the fence! The playful blending of art forms to create experiences that are more fecund for audiences and more accessible to broad audiences is at the centre of our ethos as a company.
We explore what it means to be a citizen of the world by looking towards the very personal, intimate and specific. And we’ve developed a methodology which brings the idea of global/local citizenship into the body, the muscles and the guts, and results in a signature aesthetic: visceral, expressionistic, and slightly absurd.
Biography:
Eliza is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and producer. She is the co-artistic director of House of Sand for whom she has choreographed three ensemble dance works - Knitting While Sleeping (2016), Feet.Us (2017) & Fear of Eggs (2018), created and performed and extensively toured two multi award winning contemporary performance solos - Pedal.Peddle (2015) and Castles (2016), a series of improvised duets with Brandan Anderson for Belconnen Arts Centers Dance on the Edge - Contents. Container (2019), a solo dance/design work made in collaboration with Glenn Ashworth - Sarah (2020), a 3hr dance/ performance art piece for Art Not Apart - Womb Man (2020) and a 4hr improvised gallery installation for Play_station - e.motion (2020). She danced for 24 hours straight in all Hours and performed as an actor in REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.
Eliza has created numerous works for QL2 Dance - This Poisoned Sea (2017), Bigger (2018), the Shape of Empty Space (2019) Footnote Dance Company - Not All who Launder are Washed - (2017), A Snail Watches Dust Particles in Sunlight (2018) in collaboration with James O’Hara and New Zealand School of Dance Sunflower Sutra (2017).
As a performer Eliza has worked for Body Cartography, The Australian Dance Party, The World of Wearable Art, Battleground Productions, Little Dove Theatre Art (inc. Sound and Fury Ensemble) and Java Dance Theatre. Eliza is a certified Countertechnique teacher and is a key artist on the Make a Move program, working to improve dance education in schools for the Australian National Curriculum.