Wolverine

World Premiere in Sydney Festival
Sydney Dance Company, Neilson Studio (The Thirsty Mile)
Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Road Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Wednesday 10 January – Saturday 13 January 2024

Don’t walk home alone at night, but if you must, carry a set of keys in your fist exposing them between your fingers, to defend yourself.  Defend yourself, or evolve, into a Wolverine.

Emma Harrison (choreographer/performer), working with Amy Flannery (composer) and Miranda Wheen (dramaturg), team up in a cycle of transformation that subverts and appropriates feminine archetypes, mythology, wolves, pop culture and self-defence, in a solo work that lives somewhere between dance, cabaret, and performance. 

Wolverine is a highly physical work exploring critical notions of gender, power, the pervasiveness of feminine archetypes in human stories and the repercussions of these imbalances on women’s bodies.

Wolverine was first developed as part of Rapport, DMC’s international exchange partnership with South East Dance in Brighton, UK.

Choreographer and Performer Emma Harrison

Composer Amy Flannery

Dramaturg Miranda Wheen

Lighting Designer Benjamin Brockman

Producer Carl Sciberras

Photography Nat Cartney