No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before
Latest: No Former Performer #9
Born in a Taxi forges new frontiers into long form performance improvisation. A live ‘study’ into performance, risk, improvisation, and audience-performer reciprocity. Edgy and immediate, intuitive and responsive.
Deeply personal, this work is performed once a year - same name, same people, different age, different preoccupations- till we die. Who will go first?
“this particular sustained rigour, of creating and performing work together over many years, is unique, and it really shines…. the pure ambition of this commitment is both breathtaking and deeply reassuring. I mostly forget I am watching improvisation, it is polished and has a progression of structure that feels carefully thought out and planned...”
Improvised by Taxi’s two artistic directors and sound artist Michael Havir, No Former Performer’s process is guided by master improviser Andrew Morrish.
Our aspirations for this work are unorthodox. Sound, words and movement directly express the authentic impulses of three improvisers to create something entirely unpredictable. Instinct, the unconscious/associate mind and the body’s intelligence in performance-making, drive each piece, forged afresh each time.
Deeply personal, No Former Performer is presented once a year. Same name, same people, different age, different preoccupations till we die. Who will go first?
No Former Performer reflects our ongoing, deepening practice and immediate preoccupations.
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Performers: Carolyn Hanna, Penny Baron. Sound artist: Michael Havir
2023 NFP #8 - Performance -Theatreworks; Nominated by the Greenroom Awards Association, Contemporary and Experimental Performance by a performer or ensemble.
2022 NFP #7 - Performance - Dancehouse Melbourne Fringe Festival; Nominated for Best Dance and Physical Theatre Fringe Award
2021 NFP #6- Performance - Bluestone Church Footscray supported by Maribyrnong City Council Artists in Residence program.
2020 NFP #5 - Performance - Lockdown live stream from THE CUBE at the Taxi depot/warehouse, Williamstown. Live edited streaming performances with live video mixing by Chris Codie, roving camera by Alana Hoggart.
2019 NFP #4 - Performance - Dancehouse
2017-18 NFP #3 - 2nd creative development funded by Creative Victoria with Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobram
2016 NFP #2 - Performance - La Mama Explorations
2015 NFP #1 - 1st creative development & birthplace @ Bundanon Artists in Residence program
Video credits
Performers: Carolyn Hanna, Penny Baron. Sound artist: Michael Havir.
Provocateur/ facilitator Andrew Morrish
Video: Leo Dale