Amrita Hepi & Mish Grigor // Rinse

In the organizer's words:

Where does our longing for the first high come from - a romance, a scene, a theory, a relationship, a meal or a country? In RINSE, Amrita Hepi, a dancer and choreographer with roots in Naarm and Bangkok, explores a euphoria with a limited half-life. And asks what comes afterwards - when habit regains the upper hand. Her electrifying solo performance thinks about the beginning from the end. It sheds light on whether the impending self-extinction of humanity reinforces the temptations of the past. And finds a myth of the origin of everything. RINSE travels from end to end, interweaving autobiographical elements with the grand narratives of art, feminism, dance, emptiness, desire, pop culture and colonial history. Hepi dances her history and the history of the world. And at the same time, she dances against it. In an intimate and epic narrative.

Text, choreography and performance Amrita Hepi Text, direction Mish Grigor Sound design, composition Daniel Jenatsch Lighting design Matt Adey Production Performing Lines Photo Zan Wimberely Supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the Australian Funding and Advisory Council for the Arts and the State of New South Wales through Create NSW and APHIDS; Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance through The Makers Program, Carriageworks, Dancehouse and the Keir Foundation, Keir Choreographic Award 2020 Commissioned by Performance Space and the Keir Foundation