As we wait out the final few weeks of Stage 4 restrictions, we invite you deeper down the BalletLab rabbit hole with a video presentation and live In-Conversation with Phillip Adams and Brooke Stamp.
On Tuesday 8 September, grab a glass of wine and join BalletLab and Temperance Hall Artistic Director Phillip Adams and dancer, choreographer and educator and long-time BalletLab collaborator Brooke Stamp as they examine the ‘learnt and unlearnt of obedient and disobedient bodies’ that have tested the physical limits of Phillip’s 25-year interdisciplinary choreographic practice.
Attendees will be able to submit questions through the chat – no video/voice participation required if you want to stay in your pyjamas!
PHILLIP ADAMS IN CONVERSATION WITH BROOKE STAMP
Tuesday 8 September, 6pm
Online via Zoom
In the meantime, sit back and watch Phillip Adams’ Hit Hollywood Blockbuster of Religious Catatonia, described in Phillip’s words:
“In this video presentation, I talk to the choreo-cinematic style of my work in “close up,” interrogating the works relationship to film by serving up a successive list of four hit Hollywood blockbuster instalments of religious catatonia: Amplification (1999), Miracle (2009), Above (2011) and EVER (2017).”
Many thanks to James Wright (NON Studio) for creating this video presentation with Phillip.
Watch the video below.
ABOUT BROOKE STAMP
Brooke Stamp (b. Sydney 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 performed the work of Phillip Adams, Adam Linder, Miguel Gutierrez, Maria Hassabi, Rebecca Hilton and Shelley Lasica among others; earning multiple Award nominations throughout her career for best female performer, and including the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for Dance (2017).
Since 2011, Stamp has regularly collaborated with Australian visual artist's Agatha Gothe-Snape; for the works Here, an Echo, 20th Biennale of Sydney; Rhetorical Chorus, and Oh Window (Mori Museum Tokyo); and Sally Smart; The Choreography of Cutting (NGA). Stamp has most recently performed in the inaugural commission for the Museum of Modern Art's Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio (New York), in Shelf Life by Adam Linder (2020). Other work with Linder includes the works Some Cleaning and Some Trade at the National Gallery of Victoria (AU), the Hannah Hoffman Gallery (LA), The Wattis Institute (San Fran), Kunsthalle Bern (Switz).
Stamp holds an MFA from the UNSW School of Art & Design, and is currently undertaking her PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melb).
CREDITS, Phillip Adams’ Hit Hollywood Blockbuster of Religious Catatonia VIDEO PRESENTATION
Amplification (1999)
Choreographer: Phillip Adams
Dancers, 2011 season: Joanne White, Carlee Mellow, Brooke Stamp, Rennie McDougall, Timothy Harvey, Ryan Lowe
Dancers, pictured in black and white photographs: Stephanie Lake, Shona Erskine and Geordie Browning
Body extras, 2011 season: Erin Fowler, Lilian Steiner, Pete AB Wilson
Composer/Turntablist: Lynton Carr
Set and Lighting Design: bluebottle
Costumes: Graham Green
Graphic Design: 3 Deep Design
Photography: Jeff Busby
Video documentation, 2011 season: Matthew Gingold
Miracle (2009)
Choreography and Direction: Phillip Adams
Music and Sound Composition: David Chisholm and Myles Mumford
Dancers: Luke George, Kyle Kremerskothern, Clair Peters and Brooke Stamp
Costumes: Toni Maticevski
Lighting: Bluebottle & Jenny Hector
Production Management: Tony Harding
Photography: Jeff Busby
Video documentation: Matthew Gingold
Above (2011)
Artistic Director, Choreographer and Design: Phillip Adams
Performers: Luke George, Rennie McDougall, Brooke Stamp, Joanne White
Interns: Alice Dixon, Erin Fowler, Rebecca Jensen, Lilian Steiner
Chorus: The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Chorus Master: June Tyzack
Assistant Chorus Master: Andrew Bainbridge
Choristers: Andrew Bainbridge, John Ballard, Simon Beswick, Christine Boyce, Nathan Bush, Terry Choi-Lundberg, Beth Coombe, Peter Cretan, Joanna Crisp, Ruth Croser, Greg Foot, Ann Godber, Garry Harradence, Sue Harradence, Clare Hawkins, Stefan Karpiniec, Michael Kregor, Bernadette Large, Tony Marshall, Mary McArthur, Stephanie McDonald, Colleen McIntyre, Schuya Murray, Di O-Toole, Christine Ovens, Jennifer Phillips, David Pitt, Eryl Raymond, Steve Raymond, Sharon Sherman, Anthony Sprent, Joy Tattam, Peter Tattam, Gill von Bertouch, Sally Ward, Beth Warren, Susie Williams, Simone Yemm
Production Management: Lisa Osborn
Photography: Jeff Busby
Video documentation: Matthew Gingold
With excerpts from the film TOMB (2010)
Concept: Phillip Adams
Direction and Realisation: Phillip Adams and Matthew Gingold
Director, Editor, Camera and Sound: Matthew Gingold
Performers: Phillip Adams, Brooke Stamp, Luke George and Joanne White
Aviary (2011)
Direction, Choreography and Set Design: Phillip Adams
Performed by: Phillip Adams, Luke George, Daniel Jaber, Rennie McDougall, Brooke Stamp, Joanne White, Peter AB Wilson
Costumes: Toni Maticevski
Millinery: Richard Nylon
Composition: David Franzke and Phillip Adams
Nests: Matthew Bird, Architect
Curtain painting: Gavin Brown
Lighting: Benjamin Cisterne
Production Management: Tom Webster for traffic light
Photography: Jeff Busby
Video documentation: Matthew Gingold
TOMORROW (2013)
Choreography: Phillip Adams
Performed by: Brooke Stamp, Rennie McDougall, Deanne Butterworth and Matthew Day
Costumes: Susan Dimasi (Materialbyproduct)
Composition: Garth Paine
Space/Planet Design: Matthew Bird and Phillip Adams
Kingdom (2014)
Concept & Curation: Phillip Adams
Choreographers, Designers & Performers: Phillip Adams, Matthew Day, Luke George, Rennie McDougall
Crown Designers: Paul Yore & Devon Ackermann
Lighting Designers: Paul Jackson & Danny Pettingill
Wardrobe Consultant: Geoffrey Watson
Video Documentation: James Wright (NON Studio)
Photography: Jeff Busby
EVER (2017)
Choreography: Phillip Adams
Performers: Gregory Lorenzutti, Lilian Steiner, Ben Hurley, Timothy Walsh, Olivia McPherson and Ellen Davies
Costumes: Akira Isogawa
Set/Lighting Design: Matt Adey
Film/documentation: James Wright (NON Studio)
Music: Shaker Loops by John Adams; Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss
Photography: Jeff Busby
Glory (2019)
Choreography, Concept & Direction: Phillip Adams
Dancers: Ben Hurley, Oliver Savariego, Rachael Wisby, Samuel Harnett-Welk
Set Design: Phillip Adams, bluebottle (Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston)
Lighting: bluebottle (Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston)
Costumes: The Huxleys
Film/Documentation: James Wright (NON Studio)
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Design: 3 Deep
Photography: Georges Antoni (Art Direction by 3 Deep)
Documentation photography: Jeff Busby
Image: Brooke Stamp, Miracle (2009). Photo by Jeff Busby.