{"id":46702,"date":"2016-05-13T01:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46702"},"modified":"2016-05-13T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:49:16","slug":"passing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46702","title":{"rendered":"Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.nextwave.org.au\/#event=298\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2016.nextwave.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">Next Wave Festival 2016<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcotetownhall.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northcote Town Hall<\/a><br \/>\n189 High Street<br \/>\nNorthcote, Victoria 3070<br \/>\n<strong>2016-05-12 Through 2016-05-18, Tuesday-Friday 18:30 AEST, Saturday 15:15 and 18:30 AEST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Presented in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darebinarts.com.au\/programs\/speak-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darebin Arts&#8217; Speakeasy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Choreographers\/Performers: <strong><a href=\"mailto:amrita.hepi@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amrita Hepi<\/a><\/strong> (Bundjalung NSW\/Ng\u0101puhi NZ) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/creativetalanoa.com\/2013\/12\/05\/jahra-rager-a-passionate-spoken-word-artist-choreographer-and-contemporary-dancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jahra Wasasala<\/a><\/strong> (NZ)<\/p>\n<p>Using the notion of racial passing as a catalyst for a series of movement monologues, spoken word passages and physical conversations, <em>PASSING<\/em> maps two bodies under pressure from the responsibility that comes from being of mixed cultural background.<\/p>\n<p>A trans-pacific partnership of physical force, <em>PASSING<\/em> combines Amrita Hepi\u2019s hip-hop prowess and background in contemporary dance with Jahra Wasasala\u2019s grounded and ritualistic choreographic style to create a provocative, complex and deeply magnetic work\u2014a physical dialogue that exists between two daughters of diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing together some of Australia\u2019s most talented creatives including an original score by Lavern Lee (Guerre, Cassius Select, Black Vanilla) and styling by installation artist Honey Long, <em>PASSING<\/em> is an evocative portrait of the \u2018exotic\u2019, and the exhausting effects the title can bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing Next Wave Festival 2016 Northcote Town Hall 189 High Street Northcote, Victoria 3070 2016-05-12 Through 2016-05-18, Tuesday-Friday 18:30 AEST, Saturday 15:15 and 18:30 AEST (Local Time) Presented in association with Darebin Arts&#8217; Speakeasy Choreographers\/Performers: Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung NSW\/Ng\u0101puhi NZ) and Jahra Wasasala (NZ) Using the notion of racial passing as a catalyst for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,8,4405,6462],"tags":[23637,23635,23636,23634],"class_list":["post-46702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-passing-2","tag-amrita-hepi","tag-jahra-wasasala","tag-jahra-rager-wasasala","tag-next-wave-festival-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46703,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702\/revisions\/46703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}