The Zebras
All Ages
30 September - 3 October
Wednesday
30th September
Saturday
3rd October
Yagan Square
40 minutes
Born in a Taxi
Free event
Funky, fashionable and funny, The Zebras know how to get a party started. With their own groovy dance tracks, they create a sense of play and connection across age and culture. Think bold stripes, wild dance moves and animals with serious style. They're bringing the disco back to the streets, one hoof at a time.
Commissioned by Werribee Open Range Zoo
Company Biography
Born in at Taxi is one of Melbourne’s most highly regarded, award-winning physical theatre ensembles and creators of contemporary performance. Recognised for producing highly original, physically driven, and participatory works in theatres, site-specific and outdoor contexts that focus on real-time co-creation. Renowned for their immediacy, responsiveness, and interaction with their audience, mixing dance with humour, the profound with the profane, and the familiar with the unlikely. Born in a Taxi's co-artistic directors are Carolyn Hanna and Penny Baron, who share a deep investigation into the relationship between performer and audience through the mediums of dance, theatre, live art, visual art, improvisation, and sound.
Accessibility Guide
Lighting and Sound
Total blackout (audience)
Lighting level
Flashing lights
Loud sounds
Portable sound system used to play dance music
Repetitive noises
Zebras costumes have castanets on them so they sound like horses hooves
Drums
High-pitched tones
Unexpected sounds
Background Music
Portable sound system used to play dance music
Interactivity and Participation
Children invited on stage
This is in the street, so not on stage but children often want to join in with the action we set up
Artist goes into audience
We will sometimes go into the audience but we are in the street to its informal
Manual activity (e.g. read, draw, sing, paint, construct things)
Undertake direct movement
Participation in groups/pairs
Parent/carer can support in participation
Capacity for a child slower in their movements to participate
Senses, Emotions and Effects
Distinctive smells
Special effects
Textures
Balloons
Characters express anger
Dialogue driven
Changes depending on the audience. Sometimes we do entire sets nonverbally
Props
Attention Span
Intermission/break
Introduction
Children need to sit in one place
Appropriate to make noise/move around
