STRUT Dance partners with PICA to present Restore, a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works that highlight innovation and cross-regional collaboration. In 2026, Restore will debut CALL, a new choreographic commission by Boorloo/Perth-based dance artist Ainslie Allan, alongside the West Australian premiere of Mickey by Naarm/Melbourne-based choreographer Brooke Stamp.
In its third iteration, Restore explores grief, restoration and the labour of dance. CALL, created by Allan in collaboration with Annika Moses and Jo Pollitt, is a repeated call for feeling to meet the destabilisation and rupture of our times. In Stamp’s award-winning Mickey, the hidden and subconscious impulses of a dancer is uncovered as the usually closed space of a rehearsal room is pried opened.
Season Dates/Times
Wednesday 15 July 7pm (Preview)
Thursday 16 July, 7pm (Opening Night)
Friday 17 July 7pm (includes a Post-show Artist Talk)
Saturday 18 July 7pm (Closing Night)
Duration
100 minutes (including a 10 minute interval)
Recommended
Ages 15+
Content Warnings
Partial nudity
Sensory Warning: Loud sounds
Tickets are available online until one hour before show start –then check with venue Box Office. Performances will take place in the Central Galleries – entrance via the foyer.
Each event space is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us at (08) 9228 6300 or info@pica.org.au for any access requirements.
Brooke Stamp
Mickey
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.
Ainslie Allan
CALL
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-go as 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.
About the artists
Brooke Stamp (b. Parramatta 1979) is an Australian dancer, choreographer and educator. Her career spans two-decades of inquiry in dance, visual art, sound-performance, writing and dramaturgy; and is distinguished by a prolific body of work with Melbourne-based experimental dance company Phillip Adams BalletLab. Stamp has earned multiple Award nominations throughout her career for best female performer, including the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for Dance (2017) and Green Room Award for Outstanding Performer 2026. Recent works include for PAGEANT (New York); RISING (Melbourne, 2025); HOTA Gold Coast; Liveworks (Sydney, 2023); For the Record (VCA Art Space, 2023); Psychic Bridge (Praxis Space, LaSalle Galleries, Singapore); Artificial Island (Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore); An Enactment of its Own Poetics (Campbelltown Arts Centre); A Satellite a Letter a Rock a Score (Barco Dance Collection, Sweden/Critical Path); and Pulling Down from the Ephemeral (for Folie à Plusieurs & New Museum, New York; and Bombo Headland Geological Site), among others.
Stamp has an MFA from the UNSW School of Art, Design & Architecture and a PhD from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
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.
Image 1: Brooke Stamp, Mickey. Photo: Shannyn Higgins
Image 2: Ainslie Allan, CALL 2026. Photo: Fionn Mulholland
