Our Jurisdiction

After a marvellous and successful first season in Auckland, Our Jurisdiction is coming to Dunedin Fringe Festival! We are delighted to give the work another life in Ōtepoti/Dunedin.

Our Jurisdiction is an episodic contemporary dance show collectively held by Emma Broad, Evie Logan and Lulu Qiu as they occupy this fabricated existence. It is Deborah Fletcher’s first full length independent work. Her work is inherently collaborative; it is as much influenced by the people involved as the thematic content drives it. Her work pivots on the intersection of movement, live art, collaboration and the interplay of interdisciplinary elements.

Three bodies dance through spaces of physical reality and psychological stipulations. The imagined and actual impositions of the mind. An entangled cognitive tracing through movement. The inhabitants leave behind traces and echoes of memories and movement, as one world fades into the next. Where does one body begin and another end? Time morphs into a kaleidoscope of interpretation. So, we invite you to come and sit here with us. As you, too, once inhabited this space.

“Our Jurisdiction holds time hostage; a distortion reiterated in movement. The choreography cycles through gestures that become fresher with each pass and hypnotically soothe my usual impatience - by no means a small feat.” - Teianna Chenkovich, Theatreview

Choreographed by Deborah Fletcher
Movement collaborators & performed by Emma Broad, Evie Logan & Lulu Qiu
Produced by Fiona Saunders
Images by Yin-Chi Lee
Graphic design and production support by Lulu Qiu 
Set design by Eleanor Fletcher
Music curation by Deborah Fletcher
Costume Curation by Deborah Fletcher with Lulu Qiu and Evanda Pitovao