Tim Darbyshire – SeeDance#3

Making Time

Tim Darbyshire will share his work-in-development Making Time.

22 JANUARY 2027
SATURDAY 4PM

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 between choreography, performance, installation and concert, Making Time considers how collective attention and connection are negotiated between bodies, images and mediated environments. 

At its centre is a peculiar human-badger hybrid figure, appearing through projected video alongside a shifting chorus of synthetic voices and guides. The work creates an unusual encounter between audience, figure and the systems that shape their relationship. Through moments of participation, dialogue and shifting attention, familiar modes of watching and engaging are gently unsettled, opening up different ways of perceiving 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 the surreal territory of disembodied communication, and in the possibility of authentic collective experiences within increasingly mediated social worlds. 

Created by Tim Darbyshire with creative consultants including Thembi Soddell (sound), Jude Anderson (dramaturgy), Silvana Mangano (video), and local participants. 

Further information

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/

This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Municipal Council’s Cultural Grants Program, Dancehouse, Punctum - Experiments in Live Art, and Bendigo Venues & Events - The Engine Room.

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.

Image Credit: Tim Darbyshire, Making Time, Early Development, Gunnai Kurnai Country. Image Credit: Tim Darbyshire.
Image Description: 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.