Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor RINSE

Amrita Hepi com Mish Grigor RINSE

Theatre 12€

Saturday 26 September · until 27 Sept

Performance by Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor, exploring the romance of beginnings and inertia, with autobiographical elements and narratives of art and colonial history.

Synopsis Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor RINSE ACCESSIBILITY In English with Portuguese subtitles This performance contains smoke, strobe lighting, loud sound, fake blood, and a toy gun "There is a whole history of dance simmering in Amrita Hepi's lively body." Le Monde What is so intoxicating about beginnings? Our constant craving for the first thrill caused by a romance, a scene, a canon, a theory, a relationship, a meal, or a country. Created by Amrita Hepi, choreographer and dancer from the Bundjalung territories (Australia) and Ngapuhi (Aotearoa New Zealand), in collaboration with Australian theater maker Mish Grigor, RINSE explores the romanticism of beginnings and what happens next, when those initial emotions begin to fade and inertia sets in. After a striking presentation at the Avignon Festival last year, Hepi and Grigor now debut at TBA with a performance in which Hepi questions whether living in the vertigo of extinction has intensified the seduction of the past. By recreating on stage an entropic myth about origins, RINSE goes from end to end, intertwining autobiographical elements with the grand narratives of art, feminism, dance, emptiness, desire, popular culture, and colonial history. An intimate yet epic solo, based on an improvised score, deepening Hepi's fascination with hybrid forms, celebrating dance as a place of memory and resistance. Amrita Hepi is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer based in Naarm and Bangkok. She works on the idea of archive, particularly how the body is traversed by ancestry, people, events, and environment. Collaboration and a sense of belonging are fundamental principles of her artistic practice, merging fact and fiction, memory and ethnography, the local and the singular in her performances. Amrita trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist, Amrita is one of the artists on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Mish Grigor is an artist working in the field of performance, exploring various collaborative formats. Through autobiographical tools, humor, and fiction, she seeks to examine, waste, and value time spent with others. Driven by an interest in the unpredictable, Grigor often uses spaces of dialogue, conversational strategies, and other devices of imposed live presence. Based in Melbourne since 2017, she is Director of APHIDS, along with Lara Thoms and Eugenia Lim. Artistic Team Co-author, choreographer, and performer Amrita Hepi Co-author and director Mish Grigor Sound design and composition Daniel Jenatsch Lighting design Matt Adey Produced by Performing Lines Acknowledgements Supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, and by APHIDS. Commissioned by Performance Space the Keir Foundation Supported by Supercell: Contemporary Dance Festival through the Makers Program, Carriageworks, Dancehouse, and the Keir Foundation Prices Discounts Not cumulative and do not apply to single prices. Under 18 Single price of €3 Under 25 Single price of €5 50% discount Unemployed people, CML professionals and municipal companies (extendable to companion) 30% discount