Amrita Hepi is an artist, choreographer from the pacific (bundjulung/ngapuhi territories)  -  through-lines in her practice include: historical fiction,The commodification of Indigenous culture as a global phenomenon and how to satirize the demand for “authentically native” curios. A recurrent theme in her practice is origins - how we come to understand ourselves/others through the archives of the body, land, mythos, and stories that precede us: real and imagined.

Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people's choice award from 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.

Her methodology usually involves researching into a site/area of interest or frustration/fascination to generate choreography and text as a departure point - letter writing, improvisational scores, found text,conversations, mistranslations, paraphernalia - as well as experimental or lo-fi but rigorous research methods to outline the subject material.

She is interested in how the body/or bodies (human and non-human) say something text cannot throughmovement and how text can be supplementary to create an atmosphere or scenography around a subject.Alot of her work uses docufiction, satire and of course contemporary performance as its frame - to look at how we deal with the legacy of colliding histories, colonization or empire.Amrita Hepi is an artist, choreographer from the pacific (bundjulung/ngapuhi territories)  -  through-lines in her practice include: historical fiction,The commodification of Indigenous culture as a global phenomenon and how to satirize the demand for “authentically native” curios. A recurrent theme in her practice is origins - how we come to understand ourselves/others through the archives of the body, land, mythos, and stories that precede us: real and imagined.

Exhibition/Performance/residency credits include:

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

Kluge Ruhe Gallery, Virginia, USA

Art Gallery of NSW, AUS

Impulstanz, Vienna

Kennedy Centre, Washington DC USA

Theaterformen, Germany

Next Wave Festival, Melbourne

Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,

Carriageworks, Sydney

TEDx, Sydney

Banff Centre Canada,

Art Central Hong Kong,

DARK MOFO Tasmania

Le Mans, Le Espal France

Cement Fondu, Sydney, Aus

The Lock Up Newcastle, Aus

ACE Open S.A, AUS