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WOLVERINE


Image one: Nat Cartney. Image two-four: Victor Frankowski

World premiere:
Sydney Festival 2024
10 – 13 January
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 5 

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“...evocative and visually stunning.”
                               - Time Out Magazine

Sound designer: Amy Flannery
Lighting design: Benjamin Brockman
Dramaturg: Miranda Wheen
Producer: Carl Sciberras
Costume: Eliza Cooper

Supported by Dance Makers Collective.
Development supported by Rapport international residency with South East Dance, Brighton UK.

Emma Harrison’s solo work Wolverine with composer Amy Flannery turns the need to carry your keys in your fist at night, like Wolverine, into a cycle of transformation, subverting and appropriating feminine archetypes, mythology, wolves, pop culture and self-defence. 

A highly physical work somewhere between dance, cabaret and performance art, it explores critical notions of gender, power, the pervasiveness of feminine archetypes in our stories, and the repercussions of those tropes on women’s bodies.
I acknowledge the Gadigal and Dharug peoples as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, work and create.
I pay my respects to all First Nations peoples and their elders past and present.
I recognise and honour their 65 000 years of connection to place, community, and story telling.
Sovereignty was never ceded.