Animals and Hustlers

Esteemed international creative and LA based choreographer and dancer Adam Linder and Melbourne based dancer, choreographer and educator Brooke Stamp, will lead a one day workshop at Temperance Hall. The two performing artists have worked together on several projects including Some Cleaning at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2018 and Linder’s recent MoMA commission Shelf Life in 2020.

Animals and Hustlers are two embodiments that were developed for two different works. They are what Linder would refer to as ‘ambient’ physicalities that are inhabited over longer durations and demand that the performer is in control of making real-time compositional choices to determine how these physicalities unfold. Stamp and Linder will share the context, fictional thinking and bodily knowledge for these specific embodiments and together we will setup a performative situation in which they are at play.

Workshop date:
Sunday 18 April, 11am - 4pm (including lunch break)

Brooke Stamp (b. Parramatta 1979) is an Australian dancer, choreographer and educator. Her career spans two-decades of inquiry in dance, sound-performance, visual art, writing and dramaturgy, and is distinguished by a prolific body of work with Melbourne-based experimental dance company Phillip Adams BalletLab (2000-2015) alongside performances with Miguel Gutierrez (NYC), Adam Linder (LA), Maria Hassabi (Athens), Rebecca Hilton and Shelley Lasica, among others. Since 2011, Stamp has worked at the nexus of dance and the visual arts performing in over 20 major museums worldwide, in regular collaboration with artist’s Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sally Smart, Sidney McMahon and with choreographer Adam Linder; most recently performing in Linder’s Shelf Life, at the Museum of Modern Art New York (2020). Stamp’s creative practice explores the live form of performance through improvisational craft, interdisciplinary collaboration, archival mythology and psycho-physical poetics.  In 2017, Stamp received the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for Dance, the same year she was awarded an MFA with the UNSW School of Art & Design (Syd). Stamp is a current PhD by research Candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melb).

Find out more about Brooke's work at www.brookestamp.com/

Adam Linder was born in 1983, in Sydney, Australia, and is a choreographer and dancer based between Los Angeles and Berlin. His choreographies are presented on the stage and in the exhibition space. Linder’s works are characterized by a reflexive and chameleonic approach to format and genre, rendered in a highly visual sense of costume and staging. FULL SERVICE, a survey of his Choreographic Services 1 –5, was presented by the CCA Wattis Institute San Francisco in September 2018. and traveled to Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in February 2019. Recent solo or two-person shows have included The Museum of Modern Art (2020); South LondonGallery (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016); and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015). His works have been commissioned, presented or hired by venues such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; Kampnagel, Hamburg; Sadler’s Wells, London; 356 Mission, Los Angeles; and The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Linder has participated in the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), the Liverpool Biennial (2016) and Made in LA (2016) at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, for which he was awarded the Mohn Prize for artistic excellence. As a result of this prize a monograph regarding his stage works Who Is Surfing Who was published.

Find out more about Adam's work at www.adam-linder.net/