MAKING TIME
Encounter the surprising world of one of Australia’s most left of field dance artists – Tim Darbyshire.
22 January 2027
Friday 6pm
The Drill Hall, Critical Path
1c New Beach Road, Darling Point, NSW 2027
Gadigal & Birrabirragal Country
Pay what you can $5 – $15 (+ booking fee)
Situated somewhere between theatre, exercise video, dance, installation and concert, Making Time considers how collective attention and connection are negotiated.
A cowboy, a human-badger and a choreographer guide our experience in their collective quest to keep audiences connected. The work creates an unusual encounter between the audience members, voices, bodies, and systems that shape their relationship. Through moments of opt-in participation and dialogue, familiar modes of watching and engaging are gently unsettled, inviting alternative ways of sensing what is happening and how we might be together.
Making Time speaks to a cultural moment of growing isolation and mediated connection. It dwells in surreal territory and the possibility of authentic collective experiences within increasingly artificial social worlds.
Created and performed by Tim Darbyshire with creative consultants including Thembi Soddell (sound), Jude Anderson (dramaturgy), Silvana Mangano (video), and local participants.
ABOUT TIM DARBYSHIRE
Tim Darbyshire is a choreographer and performer working across dance, performance and installation to create immersive worlds that oscillate between transformative and unpredictable patterns. His work investigates how bodies operate within mechanical, sonic and social systems, drawing audiences into terrains of intimacy, disorientation and quiet absurdity. Over the past two decades Tim has developed a body of experimental work that includes More or Less Concrete, Stampede the Stampede, Tainted Title and Significant Encounters, presenting his work across Australia and internationally at contexts such as Dance Massive, Arts House, Noorderzon Festival (NL), Tanzhaus Zürich, Every Body’s Spectacular (IS) and Kampnagel (DE). Tim is a co-founder of the international artist network Sweet & Tender Collaborations, exploring alternative modes of cultural production, and has collaborated with artists including Vera Mantero, Meg Stuart, Christine De Smedt, Shelley Lasica, Angela Goh and Brian Fuata. Based in regional Victoria, he continues to explore how experimental choreographic practice can unsettle familiar rhythms of time, attention and togetherness.
More info here: https://www.timdarbyshirestudio.com/
IMAGE CREDIT: Tim Darbyshire, Making Time, Early Development, Gunnai Kurnai Country. Image Credit: Tim Darbyshire.
IMAGE ID: An image of a figure curved over a mysterious white form inside a small room. The figure is wearing black gloves, top, pants and shoes and also a full mask head covering of a badger’s head. The artist refers to this figure as a human-badger hybrid figure.
This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Municipal Council’s Cultural Grants Program, Dancehouse, Punctum – Experiments in Live Art, Bendigo Venues & Events – The Engine Room and FLOAT Artist In Residency Program.
