Dominic Field first appeared in a Wiggles video aged two. Thirty years on, his dance moves have won him fans across the globe – including Robert De Niro
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he band has yet to come on, but the crowd is deafening. A lot of screaming, a few criers, a lot of punters standing on their seats. Within the sanctuary of the sound desk, one of the crew hands me some earplugs. “Protect your ears – a lot of squealers in today,” he says, with a wink.
The Wiggles’ audiences are not known to hold back their enthusiasm, or ever put down the bubble guns, but there is a noticeably loud roar when a certain green man comes on stage: 31-year-old Dominic Field, AKA the Tree of Wisdom. After the show ends – their second of three that day alone, all sold out – Field shakes my hand as he’s wiping himself off. “I am a big sweater,” he says, affably. It is easy to see why.
As the Tree of Wisdom, Field’s wild dancing, with hip thrusts, mad shimmying and the occasional worm, has taken both the world’s stages and TikTok by storm, inspiring thousands of copycats – from giggling parents to US college kids on a night out.
