Double Blind

Overview

Celebrated choreographer Stephanie Lake presents an electric new dance work at the Northcote Town Hall. Fresh from its world premiere at this year's Sydney Festival, Double Blind is inspired by the infamous Milgram experiments, in which subjects were asked by scientists to electrocute people in another room in order to test how far they would go before rebelling against an authority figure.

Lake's hour-long show sets out to explore this notion — questioning the limits of obedience and morality — through movement that is both anarchic and carefully staged. "This idea of the conflict between a personal morality and our relationship with those in positions of authority was the seed of the work and something I feel to be relevant to our time," says Lake.

The show, which will run for just six evenings, features four world-class dancers, along with original musical accompaniment from audio-visual artist Robin Fox.