Rinse

Where does the exhilaration of beginnings come from? The first stirrings of love, the first words of a scene, the discovery of a new country, the first bite of a meal? This solo, co-created by Amrita Hepi and Mish Grigor, is like a choreographic game that blends movements and words to explore beginnings and what comes after, once the initial surge of emotion begins to fade and inertia sets in. Hepi moves from one ending to another, weaving together fragments of her own life with the history of colonialism, art, feminism, and popular culture. Fascinated by the hybridisation of forms, this Bundjalung (Australia) and Ngāpuhi (Aotearoa/New Zealand) dancer and choreographer unfolds her research through movement, celebrating dance as a place of memory and resistance. 

هل كان العيش على شفا الانقراض قد جعل البدايات أكثر جاذبية؟ تقدّم مصممة الرقصات أمريتا هيبي، أداء فردي حول نشوة البدايات، وتجعل من الرقص مكانًا للذاكرة والمقاومة. 

Interview with Amrita Hepi

With Amrita Hepi
Text and direction Mish Grigor
Sound Daniel Jenatsch
Lighting Matt Adey
French subtitles Elaine Normandeau

Production Performing Lines 
Co-commissioned by Performance Space, Carriageworks, Dancehouse, and the Keir Foundation for the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award
With the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts investment and advisory body
With the assistance of APHIDS – SUPERDRIVE & Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance through the Makers Program