Rinse, video documentation
Amrita Hepi
September 21, 2022
Creative Access Description
Colour digital video of a Bundjulung and Ngapuhi woman performing movement and dance, and delivering a thoughtful, critical, and humorous monologue on a variety of interrelated topics. She wears a loose fitting white button up shirt and black slacks, grey running shoes, white socks, and a wireless microphone attached at her left ear. Her long black hair is tied back. The performance is characterized by the woman's confident physicality: she balances, dances, poses, gestures, and contorts her body masterfully to illustrate and compliment her monologue. In the final sequence, the woman gives an audience member in the front row a laptop computer, instructing them to read a series of lines, which she repeats one by one while running in a circle around the stage. The momentum of the sequence builds and she calls upon the entire audience to participate, shouting her lines louder and louder before dancing intensely to a throbbing beat under strobing lights, a moment that end as abruptly as it started.Description
Video documentation of Rinse, a performance created, choreographed, and performed by Amrita Hepi with direction by Mish Grigor and sound design by Daniel Jenatsch. Amrita Hepi dances and moves about the stage while delivering a monologue on the continuum of knowledge and interconnectedness of all things that jumps from colonial critiques to relationship narratives to thoughts on the history of contemporary dance, among other topics. At the climax of the performance, Hepi initiates a call and response dialogue with the audience that builds momentum before culminating in a moment of intense physicality, flashing lights, and club music before coming to rest.Identifier
2022.0921 MAS V002Extent
1 Mini-DV tape, 00:29:29Tape Number
22-002Language
Videographer
Dan PonArtist
Amrita HepiChoreographer
Amrita HepiRelated program
Maskisin ᒪᐢᑭᓯᐣ and Rinse (Related)In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca