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‘A good way to get out stress’: the magnetic force of the mosh pit
When she first went moshing, Rachel Ní Bhraonáin couldn’t stop giggling. Now she has made a dance show about the ‘gorgeous community’ she encountered
Photograph: Szymon LazewskiShe looked at the work of American physicist Jesse Silverberg, who analysed mosh pits and compared the way moshers moved and bounced off each other to molecules in a gas. Ní Bhraonáin tells stories she heard about people losing things in the crush – wallets, glasses, shoes – “and they get held up over their heads, like they’re conducting a lost and found. There’s one guy who lost a shoe and they all banded together to help him and put it back on him like Cinderella.” And she talks about how the crowd adapts depending on who’s in it, matching the force and energy of the people around them, adjusting to Ní Bhraonáin’s smaller frame, for example.
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