Handmade/Manmade toured in 07/08 alongside our other bungee masterpiece 'Stuffed'.

'Handmade/Manmade' is awash with surreal surprises and stagecraft.  The sensory show bounces high above three structures catching magical moments and awesome, spectacular bungee propelled swinging and swooping.

We love and hate the ties that bind us to reality... Wired Aerial Theatre trick the laws of gravity and audience's perception of what's real in their own synthetic paradise, but hey, what's real anyway in an artificial world?

Wendy and her delightful duo chase their tails and go nowhere fast.  They are just too darned busy to accomplish anything much.  They have forgotted what is real, how to press eject and how they ever functioned before they started running at life.

As well as being a spectacular sight to behold, Wired have also made this tour ‘a sensory experience’ with audience participation, smells that take you somewhere else and an audio-describer speaking through head-sets at every show which will allow people with visual impairments to feel the high’s and low’s as every second of action is explained.

Audience members can also come backstage for a ‘touch tour’ and be guided across the stage feeling how the bungee works and touching the features of the set.

"...physically challenging and emotionally charged aerial dance which absorbs and pulls you in by its bungee rope and leaves you hanging on for more."

(Brewery Arts)

"... The poise and technique used by Wired is impressive, the joyful energy of the movement makes you want to swoop through the air yourself and it also has a risk-taking, spectacular side that can attract audiences not usually tempted by a contemporary dance performance."

(Dance northwest)

"... Wired Aerial Theatre's work 'Handmade/Manmade' is a stand out creation because not only is it very clever, superbly performed and crafted it's actually entertaining... One of those creations in the wacky world of contemporary dance that makes you believe this wretched art-form can, just maybe, be something that doesn't make you want to beat your own head with a milk bottle!"

(Article 19)

"Wired Aerial Theatre’s Handmade/Manmade is bungee-assisted dance with the wow factor of circus. The performers have bungees attached to their waists that allow them to fly, dive, swoop and slide though a fun series of moves. They walk up walls horizontally and make giant leaps."

(The Stage)