Published: March 11, 2019
Melbourne’s contemporary dance renaissance and a decade of Dance Massive festival go hand in hand
Contemporary dance began for me in 2015, midway through a Tim Darbyshire show called Stampede the Stampede. A little like Phillip Larkin, I was late to the party. Better late than never.
For 15 long minutes, Darbyshire head-banged to a monstrous beat. I mean, he really head-banged – I became genuinely concerned about the health of his frontal lobe. Later in the show, he ended up standing on his head while an earthquake happened. In Tim Humphrey and Madeline Flynn’s ingenious sound design, a sub-woofer powerful enough to shake loose the pebbles and boulders strewn across it caused a low-frequency rock slide.
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