The body as work and destiny: movement workshop with Amrita Hepi
11am - 1pm, Saturday November 2, 2024
Saturday 2 November, 11am - 1pmAge: Over 18
Tickets: $15 - $20, Mob discount.
Booking is essential - book now.
Accessibily: participants should be willing to move with others. If you require Auslan interpretation please contact leona.debolt@lismore.nsw.gov.au or call +61266274608. Auslan interpretation requires bookings 5 days prior to the event.
The body as work and destiny
What do I have to say?
Could I use fiction to help it?
Where does it begin, enter, exit, end?
This workshop proposes to investigate the possibilities of constructing fiction from autobiographical elements and the idea of the divided self, with an emphasis on dance and text. Choreographer and artist Amrita Hepi will lead a workshop on making work from autobiographical elements: historical obsessions, post-colonial narratives, documents, dances, or memories. In Amrita's work, she often looks at the gap between lived experience and its representation, and where, in these gaps, we find meaning.
The workshop objective is to explore the limits that are established between reality and fiction, between performance and theatre, the evident and the hidden, intimacy and exposure, the imaginary and memory, from personal poetics that combine the role of author, narrator and performer.
Amrita will delve into:
- How we use, develop and continue 'technique' or logic with our physical training
- How to recognise our habitual movement and give it authorship
-the role of the author, narrator, dramaturg and performer and how to navigate personal poetics
- intimacy and exposure (what to keep hidden and what to show/what is showing on the floor)
- frameworks for working with others as a performer/maker
This workshop is for people wanting to make performance in a choreographic sense, and is open to performers or all disciplines, choreographers, dramaturgs, martial artists, dancers, writers, visual artists that are wanting to use/use liveness in the work they make. The day will start with a physical warm up, involve writing and discussion and working towards having a draft of something or some skills to continue working in their own practice. While dance training is not a prerequisite, participants should be willing to move with others.
About Amrita Hepi
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 the Artistic Associate group for STRUT dance. Her commitment to collaboration and kinship are key tenets to her practice.
