BROOKE STAMP
TEARAWAY
TEARAWAY
Performer: Brooke Stamp
Visual Artist: Agatha Gothe-Snape
Composer: Kevin Lo
Costume: Geoffrey Watson
Lighting: Matthew Adey
Tearaway examines the legacy of modern dance in current live performance practice. It will act as a ‘conceptual re-embodiment’ of the important transition guided by prominent early modern dance pioneers such as Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham. This work will dissect her innate instinct to move forward and ‘tear away’, as they did, from the burden of information embedded in her body and practice, which is paradoxically bound by these womens’ legacy.
BROOKE STAMP is a Melbourne based artist working in dance, sound and installation. Her work evolves through improvisational practices that conceptually draw on the hyperreal and imagined rhythms inherent to the movement of the universe, linking concepts of sound genesis to spatiality and the body. A long- term collaborator with Phillip Adams Balletlab, Brooke presented her first full length work And All Things Return to Nature with the company in 2013, she also works ongoingly with visual artist Agatha Gothe- Snape, creating the score for Inexhaustible Present, at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2013. Brooke’s numerous collaborations exist across the visual arts, fashion design and music, they include Orbit Score for Yoko, Restitution Éphémère, & Magnetic Flip for Damned Air.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - July 2014 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.