'Is this actually dance?': Australia's overlooked art form is its most exciting
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…