SALTLINES FOR SEALION WOMEN is a community dance project centred on recovery, safety and kinship. It engaged a local community on the southern coast of Aotearoa New Zealand in dance storying inspired by the recolonisation of Otago’s coastline by pakake, one of the rarest and most endangered sealion in the world.

Fiona Graham collaborated as dramaturg with choreographer Carol Brown on 'Saltlines for Sealion Women'. This was a site specific community dance project centred on recovery, safety and kinship. it engaged a local community on the southern coast of Aotearoa New Zealand in dance storying inspired by the recolonisation of Otago's coastline by pakake, one of the rarest and most endangered sealion in the world. The work was performed by an intergenerational cast of 20 female performers during the Wild Dunedin Otepoti Festival of Nature at St Clair Beach.

Related URL: https://www.wilddunedin.nz/events-2025/saltlines-for-sealion-women

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39277