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Ainslie Allen, Annika Moses, Brooke Stamp, Daniel Jenatsch

Restore: Post Show Artist Talks

Restore: Post Show Artist Talks

Join STRUT Dance and PICA on Friday 17 July for Restore: a charged double bill of new dance works, followed by an intimate post-show artists’ talk that opens up the ideas, sounds and movements behind these performances. 

Facilitated by Sofie Burgoyne, Co-Director of STRUT Dance, the conversation brings together Ainslie Allan and Annika Moses, and Brooke Stamp and Daniel Jenatsch, to share how collaboration, experimentation, movement and sound have shaped these new works. 

Stay after the performance for a rare chance to hear directly from the artists as they unpack the creative sparks, questions and processes that brought Restore to life. 

Admission is free with a ticket to the Friday 17 July showing of Restore.

About the artists

Ainslie Allan (they/them) – fka. Daisy Sanders – is a Boorloo dance, experimental and community artist (WAAPA BA Arts Dance 2013, Honours 2017). Their choreographic work is based in improvisation (body/voice/writing), re-imagines audience paradigms and prioritises collective experience and energetic exchange. Protracted experience of chronic illness led Ainslie to develop a rest-focused movement method and deeply considered approach to collaborative artistic leadership that is sustainable, accessible and caring. Ainslie was University of Otago’s 2023 Caroline Plummer Fellow (Aotearoa), company artist with Sensorium Theatre (2016–2023) and pvi collective (2024) and the 2025 Artistic Director of Stompin (Lutruwita). Their original works include A Resting Mess (2016-current), Womb for World Weeping (STRUT Situ8:CITY 2022) and Room To Rest (Arts Centre Melbourne 2021). Ainslie’s artistic values and practice have been shaped by powerful working relationships with Teac Damsa (Ireland), Geoff Sobelle (USA), Ros Crisp (Vic), Pilar Mata Dupont (Netherlands/WA), Jo Pollitt, Joshua Pether and Tone List (all WA) among others.

Daniel Jenatsch is a multimedia artist and composer based in Melbourne. His work combines hyper-detailed soundscapes, music, text and video to create experimental documentaries, installations, radio works and performances. In 2021 he received the John Fries Award for The Close World, at UNSW Galleries. Additional work includes The Sheraton Hotel Incident (2019), commissioned by ACCA for the Macfarlane Commission, and Mysterious Illness (2018), presented by Arts House. His work has been presented at the MCA, ACMI, Kunsten festival des arts, the Athens Biennale, Liquid Architecture and Next Wave Festival. Daniel has worked as a sound designer artists including Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler, Kim Sooja, Lucy Guerin, Amrita Hepi and Atlanta Eke. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University, where his research investigates orality and contemporary technology.

Annika Moses lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. Nika Mo is a moniker under which Moses performs and releases alt/freak-folk music. Great Statue is the music and ‘performance art’ moniker through which they channel the still-living Laurie Anderson in karaoke drag. Alongside this Moses organises and curates with Tone List, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music. Across some of the year Moses facilitates creative projects in Tura’s regional program, on Martu and Gija lands in the East Pilbara and Kimberley. Moses work has been premiered and exhibited in festivals including Totally Huge New Music Festival, Fairbridge Festival, Audible Edge, FRINGEWORLD, WAMfest and Sound Spectrum, and installation works at Cullity Gallery and Mundaring Arts Centre.

Brooke Stamp (b. Parramatta, 1979) is a leading voice in Australian contemporary dance, recognised for her multivalent practice spanning dance, visual art, experimental sound, research and education. Working between bases of Naarm/Melbourne and the Gold Coast, she interrogates the evolving role of dance in contemporary culture through dynamic explorations of personal, feminist and collective dance histories. Unfolding across studios, galleries, theatres and natural environments, Stamp’s work is motivated by a deep enquiry into the body and the politics of presence–drawing on improvisation to cultivate a distinctive signature of experiential aesthetics and ‘real-time’ choreographies that transcend genre and form. Stamp’s early career is distinguished by stand-out performances with leading choreographers including Phillip Adams (BalletLab,2000–2014), Miguel Gutierrez (NYC), Chunky Move, Shelley Lasica, Rebecca Hilton and Sandra Parker, among others; earning her multiple Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations for Best Female Performer. In 2005, she was awarded an Australia Council Skills and Development Grant to study in New York and in 2017 she received the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for Dance.  


Supporters

Presented by STRUT Dance in association with PICA. Restore is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, the WA Government, A & M Fini Foundation, The Chapel Space and STRUT Movers, STRUT’s generous and supportive donors.