No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before
"I feel thrilled and moved. What a proposition! What an ode to consistency, to relationship, to process, to ageing. In this era of “the next big thing”, when work in the arts feels so piecemeal, so contracted and freelance, the pure ambition of this commitment is both breathtaking and deeply reassuring." Emilie Collyer
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Sound artist Michael Havir with Born in a Taxi's Artistic Directors, Penny Baron and Carolyn Hanna have a long-standing relationship exploring performance, risk, improvisation, and audience-performer reciprocity through the mediums of movement, text, and sound. Improvisation is the engine of Born in a Taxi multidisciplinary practice.
Over the past three decades, the depth of Born in a Taxi’s art form inquiry has led the company to develop a unique methodology and pedagogy in movement-based ensemble improvisation. |
This trio is committed to an annual long form improvisation ‘No Former Performer has Performed this Performance Before’…till they die. Edgy and immediate, intuitive, and responsive.
Presented by Born in a Taxi co-directors Penny Baron and Carolyn Hanna and associate artist Michael Havir Music and sound - Michael Havir |
NFP#7 - 2022
As part of Fringe 2022 12-15 October at Dancehouse
NFP#6 - 2021
Despite a few false starts and stops due to Covid lockdown this years performance was developed and performed at the Bluestone Church Arts Space Footscray.
Courtesy of Maribyrnong Council support.
Courtesy of Maribyrnong Council support.
NFP#5 - 2020
Due to Covid 19 restrictions this performance was developed and streamed live on the internet from the Taxi depot/workshop in Williamstown
NFP#4 - 2019
Presented over 3 nights at Dancehouse Carlton
NFP#1-3 - 2015, 2016, 2018
2016. Continued exploration of long form improvisation with participation of choreographer Helen Herbertson, lighting designer and Bluebottle co-founder Ben Cobham and Berlin based improviser and current Australian Council Fellow Andrew Morrish.
2015. Performances over 3 nights as part of La Mama Explorations festival.
