{"id":47103,"date":"2016-05-24T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47103"},"modified":"2016-05-24T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:09:49","slug":"amrita-hepi-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47103","title":{"rendered":"Amrita Hepi interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/sydney\/dance\/amrita-hepi\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Amrita Hepi interview<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\">Time Out Sydney<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/au.linkedin.com\/in\/deejefferson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dee Jefferson<\/strong><\/a>, Arts &amp; Culture Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sydney\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> knows \u2013 and loves \u2013 Amrita for her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollaback!\" target=\"_blank\">Hollaback<\/a> nights and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyonc%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce<\/p>\n<p>Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work <em>Passing<\/em>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>-born dancer and spoken-word artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J0yQpaNCZaQ\" target=\"_blank\">Jahra Wasasala<\/a>, when Beyonc\u00e9 dropped her first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lemonade_(Beyonc%C3%A9_album)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lemonade<\/em><\/a> single and film clip, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formation_(song)\" target=\"_blank\">Formation<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like man\u2026 What the!? This is everything we\u2019re going through right now. And people were saying \u2018How dare she have a political statement? She\u2019s not even that black! She dyes her hair blonde!\u2019.\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<em>Passing<\/em> explores identity from the perspective of two women who not only have mixed cultural heritage, but whose dance practice spans genres as far apart as classical ballet, contemporary Indigenous choreography and dance hall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/sydney\/dance\/amrita-hepi\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts &amp; Culture Editor Sydney knows \u2013 and loves \u2013 Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyonc\u00e9 dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,4405,6462],"tags":[23637,986,22151,23841],"class_list":["post-47103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-passing-2","tag-amrita-hepi","tag-australia","tag-sydney","tag-time-out-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47103","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=47103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47104,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47103\/revisions\/47104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}