Next Wave Festival: Passing [Melbourne]
Next Wave Festival:  Passing [Melbourne]

Event Information

Date/Time

Friday May 13, 2016
6:30 PM

Location

Northcote Town Hall
189 High St
Northcote, VIC 3070
Australia

Auslan Interpreter/s

Marc Ethan

Language/ Cultural Consultant

Tickets

$18 (Auslan tickets click on the link below and select the date - 13th May - click on Enter Promotional Code and then enter password ACCESS)

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Next Wave Festival (a world of creative discovery).

PASSING: Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung NSW/Ng?puhi NZ) & Jahra Wasasala (NZ)

“Amrita doesn’t just make the political personal, she makes it physical and impossible to ignore”

Nakkiah Lui, writer

Using the notion of racial passing as a catalyst for a series of movement monologues, spoken word passages and physical conversations, PASSING maps two bodies under pressure from the responsibility that comes from being of mixed cultural background.
A trans-pacific partnership of physical force, PASSING combines Amrita Hepi’s hip-hop prowess and background in contemporary dance with Jahra Wasasala’s grounded and ritualistic choreographic style to create a provocative, complex and deeply magnetic work—a physical dialogue that exists between two daughters of diaspora.

Bringing together some of Australia’s most talented creatives including an original score by Lavern Lee (Guerre, Cassius Select, Black Vanilla) and styling by installation artist Honey Long, PASSING is an evocative portrait of the ‘exotic’, and the exhausting effects the title can bear.

A script of the spoken word dialogue will be available for audiences upon request during the season.

Get your tickets by clicking on the link above and select the date –  13th May – click on Enter Promotional Code and then enter password ACCESS

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