Contact High: New York
Brooke Stamp
The Line is a Labyrinth (Mickey Reimagined)

For night two of Contact High: New York, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT Presents: Brooke Stamp The Line is a Labyrinth (Mickey Reimagined), 2025. Reserve your free ticket.

A wild trip through the psychic waste of a dancer.

In The Line is a Labyrinth (Mickey Reimagined), Brooke Stamp returns to the raw materials on which her premiere work Mickey is founded. 

Taking the site of PAGEANT—a hybrid studio and performance space —as a starting point, The Line is a Labyrinth reimagines Stamps’ master work Mickey, commissioned by Performance Space, Eora Sydney  and HOTA (Home of the Arts), Kombumerri Gold Coast and recently presented at RISING, Naarm Melbourne.

In Mickey, 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. Originally developed in collaboration with composer Daniel Jensatsch, spoken-word recordings of Stamp’s inner-world are amplified and warped through a feedback loop. In the Line is a Labyrinth, New York-based sound artist Andrew Fox will reimagine the score powering Stamp’s movement. 

In this work, Stamp’s deep knowledge of dance is embodied, regurgitated and dislocated through psycho-physical release. Every performance 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.

Brooke Stamp (b. Sydney 1979) is a dance-artist practicing within a global matrix of peers to create performance bridging fields of dance, visual art, sound, conceptual performance, dramaturgy, writing, and curation. Prioritising an aesthetic of the experiential, Stamp’s work operates characteristically in improvisation to generate live situations that shift fluidly between contexts of studio, gallery, theatre, and natural site.

Stamp’s early career was marked by a significant collaboration with Phillip Adams Balletlab. Since 2011, Stamp has contributed to over 20 Museum-based works worldwide: including at the Mori Museum, 20th Biennale of Sydney, NGA, ACCA, NGV and AGNSW. Stamp’s more recent practice has been characterised by her collaboration with artists Agatha Gothe-Snape, Maria Hassabi, Miguel Gutierrez, Rebecca Hilton and Adam Linder. 

Stamp’s recent works include Mickey, RISING, Naarm Melbourne (2025); Mickey, Liveworks, Performance Space, Eora Sydney (2023); Psychic Bridge, Praxis Space LaSalle Galleries (Singapore); Artificial Island, Earl Lieu Gallery (Singapore); Pulling Down from the Ephemeral, Folie A Plusieurs & New Museum (NYC); Tearaway Part One: The Crater of Motor Power, Inaugural Keir Choreographic Award (2014); and  And All Things Return to Nature (2013).

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​​Across three nights, 24-26 July, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT present Contact High: New York, a free showcase of Australian performance practice.