RINSE

RINSE 2020

Originally Comissioned for the Keir Choreographic Award
Winner of The Peoples Choice AWARD 2020

Being developed in 2021 for touring.

Performance Work.

What is it about the beginning that remains intoxicating? The persistent lust for the initial thrill of a romance, scene, cannon, theory, relationship, meal, country — the opening lines. This work explores the romance of beginnings and what happens when the inertia takes over. Rinse questions whether being on the brink of extinction, or endings, has intensified the seduction of the past. The fraught idolisation of the singular narrative under the grip of hegemony. Through recreating an entropic origin myth on stage, Rinse travels from end to end, positioning personal narratives in relation to dance, art, feminism, cannons, the void, desires, popular culture and colonial history. An intimate solo based on a dynamic improvisational score, Rinse is a continuation of Hepi’s fascination with hybridity under empire and contemporary dance’s preoccupation with the neutral body.

Choreographer and Performer: Amrita Hepi
Dramaturg: Mish Grigor
Costume Designer: Aleisa Jalbert
Sound: Daniel Jenatsch