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   A woman of Bundjalung (Australia) and Ngāpuhi (Aotearoa/New Zealand) decent sits in a brightly lit room. Holding her right leg in the air she leans slightly forward, her left leg is crossed against the floor. Her dark hair is tied back into a ponytail. She is wearing a white shirt and bright blue trousers with matching trainers.
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Tue 21 Oct 2025
Rinse
Dance
Performance
Theatre
Event organiser:
Transform

Join Transform for Rinse - an intimate yet epic solo performance about the allure of new beginnings.

Dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi weaves personal narratives with the history of colonialism, art, feminism and pop culture, and asks: is it possible to start again?

Hepi’s electric new performance, co-created with Mish Grigor, questions whether being on the brink of extinction—a series of endings of various kinds—has intensified the seduction of the past. With a dynamic improvisational score, Rinse expands Hepi’s fascination with hybridity under empire and contemporary dance’s fixation with the ‘neutral’ body.

This Bundjalung (Australia) and Ngāpuhi (Aotearoa/New Zealand) multidisciplinary artist unfolds her research through movement, celebrating dance as a place of memory and resistance.

‘Hepi is a consummate storyteller’ – ArtsHub

‘One of the most in-demand artists of the moment’ – The Saturday Paper

Performances at Transform 25 co-presented by Transform and stage@leeds.

Produced by Performing Lines and supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body. Supported by Performance Space and Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance through The Makers Program. Commissioned by Carriageworks, Dancehouse, and the Keir Foundation for the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award

stage@leeds

School of Performance and Cultural Industries
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

53.80848, -1.552777

    Date
    Tue 21 Oct 2025
    Show all dates/times
    Tue 21 Oct 2025
    7:00pm - 7:50pm

    Ticket price

    £
    2
    £
    35
    Pay what you can

    Recommended price: £25

    Accessibility

    This show will be BSL interpreted. 

     

    Step Free Access: There is step free access to the event and there are accessible toilets at the venue. 

     

    Open Door Policy: We have an open door policy across all shows at Transform, meaning ticket holders are welcome to come and go as they need. 

     

    Seating: The tiered seating is high-backed. 

     

    Content Guidance: Contains haze, strobe and loud sound.

     

    There is also simulated blood, partial nudity, use of a toy firearm and some coarse language in the performance. 

     

    Head to Transform’s Access page for more information.  

    British Sign Language Interpreted
    Wheelchair access
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