Amrita hepi artist

Introducing Amrita Hepi, a recipient of The Corner Dance Lab – Indigenous Residency Scholarship made possible through support from Arts Northern Rivers.

Hepi joins fellow scholarship recipient, Tyrel Dulvarie in a 9-day dance residency being held at Jasper Corner, Federal from 15 – 23 January 2016. Situated in the NSW Northern Rivers region just 30 minutes inland from Byron Bay, the annual event is led by Philip Channells (Dance Integrated Australia) and Gavin Webber (The Farm Company) with guest artists from the local area, across Australia and the UK.

The Corner Dance Lab is a regional NSW annual event designed to connect local and metropolitan-based dance artists and to enliven and support the development of dance in the local region. It also provides professional development opportunities for participants to engage with some of the countries best talent and create pathways for new creative investigations.

I’m wanting to focus on how to make work that’s more broadly accessible and compelling. Working with the other amazing artists and teach

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Interview #157 — Amrita Hepi

I’m part of a demi-communal silent writing group that hang out every Friday called the writers’ army—it’s the only zoom I look forward to and it is facilitated by theatremakers Liv Satchell and Emma Valente. You just write in collective silence in a zoom room of a dozen people for 45 minutes and someone in the group offers a different provocation week on week to close the cycle. The provocation doesn’t have to have anything to do with your writing and everyone in the group is invited to share thoughts on the reflection if anything surfaces for them. Recently we chat about the spaces in between Capital ‘P’ Practice and small ‘p’ practice. I’d love to hear more about your small ‘p’ practice—not from a theoretical perspective but what the repetitive rituals you come back to are?

This might sound super mundane but small ‘p’ practice for me includes finding different ways to dance, running, reading and searching for some way to find like I’m on the line with my body. A way to continuously sense that. I hate that I’m saying this but it’s also emailing pe

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Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung/Ngapuhi Territories) is a multidisciplinary artist & choreographer based in Naarm and Bangkok.

Her interest as an artist is in the idea of archive; particularly in relation to the body and how it is organized by ancestry/people/events and environment.

By coalescing fact and fiction,memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular into the performance/art work she makes.

Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people choice award for the Keir Choreographic Award, was a Forbes 30 under 30 for artist, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally.

Amrita is a Triad member of performance company APHIDS, on the board of directors and artistic associate for RISING festival and part of theArtistic Associate group for STRUT dance. Her commitment to collaboration and kinship are key tenets to her practice.

Exhibition/Performance credits include:

Serepentine UK (DO IT)
National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Kluge Ruhe Gallery, V