It’s not how old you are, but how you are old. Force Majeure’s The Age I’m In is a poignant, witty and revealing portrait of how we inhabit the age we’re in throughout our lives.

Woven together and brought to life by Force Majeure’s distinctive dance-theatre language, a diverse selection of Australians aged between fourteen and eighty offer astonishingly personal responses to a range of emotive issues, creating an intimate and warm-hearted snapshot of the aging process.

Under acclaimed director Kate Champion, this remarkable performance which won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Company at the 2009 Australian Dance Awards, skillfully combines audio visual technology, real-life interviews and a distinctive physical language to take a fresh and humorous look at generational clichés, family interactions and the complexity of human relationships.

Force Majeure was founded in 2002 by Artistic Directors Kate Champion, Geoff Cobham and Roz Hervey. Creating at least one major new production of scale each year the company has been successful in attracting the coveted Major Festivals Initiatives support and has premiered at Sydney Festival in 2002, 2005 and 2008 as well as presenting work at the Adelaide Festival and in metropolitan theatres. Force Majeure has been growing in stature since building its infrastructure to match increasing demand for national and international touring.

“…funny and utterly uplifting…filled with beauty, constructed of simple and innocent moments of truth, hope and pure emotion” Daily Telegraph

“…there is an overwhelming sense of universality that elements of what is being expressed could apply to almost any era in many languages.” Sydney Morning Herald

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