One Trick Pony
One Trick Pony is a physical theatre, circus company from Melbourne. One Trick Pony was formed in 2012 by Christy and Joh Nyx and has created two full length works to date. Carousel was a green room award winning show that toured regionally (Melbourne Fringe, Gasworks Art Park, Tasmanian Circus Festival and the Perth Fringe World) and internationally (STOFF Fest, Stockholm) between 2012-2014. Their second full length work Til, premiered to a near sold out season at the Abbotsford Convent in November 2019 and has a second regional and possibly national season planned for 2022.
SHOWS
Carousel by One Trick Pony
Carousel is a provocative physical theatre/new circus show by two female acrobats. A journey exploring the human condition: disease and dis-ease, intimacy and duplicity, gender and death. Your guides on this journey are characters of the old world circus; slapstick irreverent clowns, hyper-masculine strongmen and beautifully bizarre carousel horses.
One Trick Pony removes the fourth wall and invites the audience backstage with stripped-to-naked costume changes and candid conversation. Carousel will leave the audience titillated, and aghast with hearts melting in their hands.
Carousel was directed by Anni Davey (Circus OZ, Fruit Fly Circus) and costumes were created by Amanda Fairbanks and Clockwork Butterfly.
Til by One Trick Pony
Til is a dark and dynamic physical performance work exploring the trajectory from birth to death and rites of passage we pass through along the way. French ethnographer Arnold Van Gennep innovate the term ‘rites of passage’ to describe the process of leaving one group to enter another.
Til creates striking visual processions of the performers own rites of passage; including first sexual experience, first bleed, childbirth, premature menopause and facing own’s own mortality.
Performed with Luke to a beautifully unnerving live score by Teresa Blake (Circus OZ, Retro Futurismus) , with wearable art created by Sarah Seahorse (award winning costume designer) and dramaturgy by Yumi Umiumare (ButohOut, Unwoman. DasSHOKU) and Anni Davey (Retro Futurismus, Club Swing), Til is a devastatingly raw, beautiful and life affirming work.
Til was developed and premiered at the ‘Oratory’ at the Abbotsford Convent with financial assistance from Creative Victoria, City of Yarra and the Women’s Circus.
Video art by Miskletic
Photos by Alison Fairley Photography
SHOWREELS
What People Are Saying
Carousel won the Green Room award for Excellence and innovation in Circus
“Thrilling, funny, brave and revealing, TIL is all the words and so much more. A vivid dream i don’t think I’ll ever shake”
— Anna Krien (Journalist/author).
“Carousel is breath taking! I could have sat and watched this show for the rest of my life. I’d Just need a lot of wine and a box of tissues.”
— Amanda Palmer (Singer Songerwriter)
“Til’ is an extraordinary gift- a reflection of the human experience through the bodies of formidable artists who should be national treasures.”
— Marieke Hardy (Author, TV presenter)