00:02There's something hypnotic about it.
00:07Friday nights in this suburban garage are about self-expression.
00:11We describe it like it's a feeling.
00:15This is what it looks like to dance flood style, an emerging art scene born in the flood
00:20plains of Ipswich.
00:21The man behind it was just 12 years old and living in women's shelters with his mum when
00:26Queensland's devastating 2011 floods arrived.
00:29I remember seeing the streets, the aftermath, and it was like a bomb went off.
00:35You know, it was so much debris, it was so dirty, and the dance is a response to that upbringing
00:44but also channeling it into a positive way.
00:47The art form is gaining traction beyond Ipswich.
00:50It's been adopted by street dancers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Byron Bay and Auckland.
00:55Shota Sasaki flew to Ipswich from Japan.
01:01Really?
01:02I'm not thinking about anything while dancing.
01:04The feelings just come out.
01:08The dancers hope it'll change the way the historical Queensland city is perceived.
01:13You still get it now, like, I get it in my, like, day-to-day, like, just like, oh, like,
01:19where you live?
01:19Like, oh, I live out in Ipswich.
01:21And, like, there's like the, they won't explicitly say it but, you know, you can tell what they're
01:26thinking.
01:26It just shows that even from a place like Ipswich, having all these people from overseas
01:31and interstate come here, you know, anybody can really rise up if, if you get together
01:36and believe in a vision.
01:40Turning climate disaster into a creative community.
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