Rinse by Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor

What is it about the beginning that remains intoxicating - our persistent lust for the first rush of a romance, scene, canon, theory, relationship, meal or country?

Created by Bundjalung and Ngapuhi dance artist Amrita Hepi and theatre-maker Mish Grigor, Rinse explores the romance of beginnings and what happens next, when the initial thrills begin to fade and inertia takes over.

Hepi’s electric performance questions whether being on the brink of extinction – a series of endings of various kinds – has intensified the seduction of the past. By recreating an entropic origin myth on stage, Rinse travels from end to ending, weaving together autobiographical elements with the grand narratives of art, feminism, dance, the void, desire, popular culture and colonial history.

An intimate yet epic solo performance based on a dynamic improvisational score, Rinse expands Hepi’s fascination with hybridity under empire and contemporary dance’s fixation with the “neutral” body.