Australian choreographer and performer Amrita Hepi involves Ottawa to assist launch 2026 with the Nationwide Arts Centre and Indigenous Theatre. Performances of her solo work Rinse, acclaimed for its witty tackle beginnings, reminiscence, and heritage, happen from January 22 to 24.
The work was co-written with theatremaker Mish Grigor, and has been touring, together with performances on the Competition d’Avignon, throughout Europe, and in Australia.
Rinse
What’s it concerning the starting that continues to be intoxicating?
Hepi’s Rinse delves into the pure romance of latest beginnings — that first rush of affection, the primary chapter of a brand new story… What occurs when that first intense thrill begins to fade?
She makes use of motion, textual content, and satire with a playful edge within the work, telling private tales that relate to bounce, artwork, feminism, need, love, well-liked tradition, and colonial historical past. The efficiency is intimate, however epic in scope, and creates a type of mashup the place fact and fiction, recollections and myths collide.
The stage is brightly lit, and her costumes and set are in white and blue, making a stark and placing background for vibrant motion and a monologue with a cheeky tone. Rinse explores dance as an area the place reminiscence and resistance come collectively.
The efficiency takes place in English with French surtitles, and the efficiency on January 24, 2026, might be interpreted in American Signal Language (ASL).
Rinse will even be introduced at Public Vitality Performing Arts in Peterborough on January 28th.
Amrita Hepi
Primarily based in Naarm and Bangkok, multidisciplinary artist and choreographer Amrita Hepi creates works that revolve across the notion of archive, particularly, with respect to the physique and the way it’s influenced by ancestry, folks, occasions, and setting. She is from the Pacific (Bundjalung/Ngāpuhi) territories.
Amrita skilled at NAISDA, Australia’s main performing arts coaching organisation designed particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander college students, in addition to Alvin Ailey in New York Metropolis. She has received the folks’s alternative award from the Keir Choreographic Award twice, amongst different accolades and recognition.
Her work has been carried out and commissioned in Australia and internationally. Amrita is a Triad member of efficiency firm APHIDS, on the board of administrators and inventive affiliate for RISING pageant and a part of the Creative Affiliate group for STRUT dance.
Her work examines notions of historic fiction, and the ways in which Indigenous tradition has turn out to be commodified globally in a quest for “authenticity”, utilizing a satirical lens. The theme of origins, and the way physique, land, myths and tales, each actual and imagined, come collectively to create a way of who we’re, runs via a lot of her work.
Collaboration and kinship are essential to her physique of labor.
Mish Grigor
Author and director Mish Grigor makes use of autobiography, humour, and fiction in efficiency works that span a spread of codecs. She is within the unpredictable, and sometimes makes use of dialogue and dialog in her items.
Director of APHIDS with Lara Thoms and Eugenia Lim, Mish is predicated in Melbourne, Australia. APHIDS is a manner for the three artists to create a observe that’s higher than the sum of its components. The group works in media that ranges from gallery to theatre reveals, textual content based mostly works, and extra.
She can also be a performer who has taken the stage to sold-out homes within the UK and Australia.
- Discover tickets and present info for Rinse on the Nationwide Arts Centre, January 22 to 24 [HERE].
- Discover tickets and present info for Rinse at Peterborough’s Public Vitality Performing Arts Centre on January 28 [HERE].
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