STRUT Dance partners with PICA to present Restore, a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works highlighting innovation and cross-regional collaboration. In 2026, Restore debuts a new choreographic commission from Boorloo/Perth-based dance artist, Ainslie Allan, and the West Australian premiere of a new work from Naarm/Melbourne-based choreographer, Brooke Stamp.
Now in its third iteration, Restore responds to the growing demand for sustainability in choreographic practices. The initiative emphasises the importance of light production design, supporting independent dance with a model that enables greater mobility of works. Restore aims to create sustainable pathways for dance to thrive, evolve and reach a broader audience.
Restore is presented by STRUT Dance in association with PICA, and has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, the WA Government and STRUT Movers who are our generous and supportive donors.
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Mickey
Brooke Stamp
A wild trip through the psychic waste of a dancer.
In this premiere work from Brooke Stamp, the hidden, subconscious impulses of a dancer rise and writhe. Stamp pries open the usually closed space of a rehearsal studio so we can witness the dancer at work. Spoken-word recordings of Stamp’s inner-world are amplified and warped through a feedback loop, provided by experimental composer Daniel Jenatsch, powering her movement. Her deep knowledge of dance is embodied, regurgitated and dislocated through psycho-physical release.
Every performance of Mickey offers a new, ever-evolving experience. The creative process is alive and in real time. Her psyche balances the line. And the line is the labyrinth.
CALL
Ainslie Allan
A series of atmospheric scores are versed in repeated call for feeling as a way to meet the destabilisation and rupture of our times. The work offers grieving-as-we-goas an emotional response-ability for living, listening and thriving amid personal and socio-political complexities.
Grounded in combining the enduring performance improvisation practices of three artists, Ainslie Allan, Anika Moses & Jo Pollitt CALL deliberately seeks tenderness and deep attending inside constant unsettlings. It proposes embodied dis-armouring as resilience, as a way of staying with the resonance of continuous aftermaths. Layered, looped, live-generated choreography, voice and writing-as-dancing return again and again to repair and restoration, not as resolution but as an active process that is ongoing and communal.
Allan, Moses and Pollitt combine and expand edges of respective artistic forms to accentuate the body as an essential site for listening and healing. They perform together as integrated ensemble to generate an urgently warm call that ‘conjure(s) more than itself’ – LaBelle, 2014.