Friday, March 11, 2011

A Week B4 St. Patrick's Day!


Katie Duck -- April 30 2011 Saturday one day Workshop Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon England

Duck Projects -- Crime + Rock Casualties
Once a month, February to June 2011 in Zaal 100.
Read Her Announcements HERE

Independent and unaffiliated digital graphic by M.E.

Katie's Dance Noir Series: Happy Homicide, along with Criminal Mind, Kidnap, Profile, and UnSub. Read more about it! plus Read about the artists! Better yet -- BOOK IT!

Sharon Smith, Katie Duck's Friend & Ally:

On the road with Gob Squad.

See Sharon Smith and Felicity Croydon at their amazing site maxfactory.org (Updated Flash Required)


Katie Duck's Gruppo, photographed by Anneliese Wolf.


Karin Pipa Wimmer's Sorcas Quircas Facebook Page

Try out this Nouveau Clown''s WEBPAGE too, as well as the Munich Juggler's Festival later this year!

Speaking/Reading of Nouveau Clowns -- there's a Facebook page that alerts all and sundry about performances of the Worldwide Baggy Pants Krewe called Clowns On The Road AKA (EN EL CAMÍ/EN EL CAMINO). Get your translating pages ready though -- the posts can be in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, German or even English!

Jango Edwards is in Spring Training:


NUMBERS DIRECTION WORKSHOP -- Focused specially and specifically to work in the creation of new numbers and in the improvement or development of the numbers or ideas you already have. 20 hours of work from March 17th to 20th 2011 + 1 individual hour of work with Jango during that week. On 19th we will present a cabaret ...
Place: Barcelona Maximum 6 students Price: 250€
If you are interested contact Cristina (cristigarbo@gmail.com)

Sneaking in: THE JANGO EXPERIENCE mini cabaret at the CCCB FREE ENTRANCE ... PAY TO LEAVE ... one time and one time only. Saturday, March 19 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm Calle Montalegre 5 (detras del Macba) , Barcelona

Jango is going BATS in Austria during April !!!


April 6 "Classics" in Vienna; On April 7 "Special" in the small, but fine Theater Olé (Beatrixgasse Vienna 3); On April 8 at Kleinen Theater in Salzburg!

Am 6.4. präsentieret er "Classics" in der ((szene)) Wien; am 7.4. zeigt er ein "Special" im kleinen aber feinen Theater Olé (Beatrixgasse/Wien 3) und am 8.4. ist er im Kleinen Theater in Salzburg zu sehen!

Johnny Melville is going to ROME in April:

Groucho sez: Roamin' WHERE?
Sabato e Domenica Saturday, April 2 and April 3.

(Above) Johnny Melville performing his Motorcycle Improv in Chile with a volunteer from the audience. He'll also be in Barcelona April 9 and 10 at Theater Freedonia.
( His son, Cyron Melville won acting awards in Montral and Marakesh for this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h6Cz7CGIvQ )

Across The Blue Horizon ...

ALL the programs from 1976 -- Thanks to Ed Baker!
Program Collection Project -- Festival of Fools 1975 to 1984.

An online collection of the programs from the Festival of Fools -- searchable, downloadable PDFs.
Do YOU know where any of the MISSING programs are?
Contact Webmaster Michael from the link above!

Davey Norket has been taking care of business at his old haunts in Half Moon Bay, USA, but will be heading back to Holland soon. Last weekend, there was a "Mini-Fool's Reunion," according to Paul Blackwell:

(L to R) Davey Norket and Ced Curtis, March 2011.

I met up with Davey Norket and Cedric Curtis in Montara, near Half Moon Bay. I picked up Matthew in Berkeley on the way. Great time had by all. We also did a little jam session. Davey as wizard of funk, and Cedric as soulful as always. I was Mr. Strummer.

Stuart Curtis' satellite page about the Hamburg production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is LINKED on the Outline and Scrapbook page of the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe Saga-- plus the Handy Table of Contents.

Stuart Curtis CD Release Party for a CD he guested on with a Portland Brazilian band. March 26. http://www.namesamusic.com/home

Bindlestiffs Family Cirkus in New York
April 1 and 2, 2011 -- Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey)

The legendary Cirkus Cabaret returns to the Big Apple. For seventeen years, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret provides a stage for the world's best in circus, sideshow, vaudeville, burlesque, and cabaret. This year's season promises to continue the traditions.
Jugglers, clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists share the stage with musicians, magicians, dancers, daredevils, and more in The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret. Every show promises circus feats, sideshow marvels, and world-class entertainers.


Theater/Cinema/Circus scholar John Towsen's piece about our long-missing friend Mamako Yoneyama in Craft and Art of Physical Comedy. Much-appreciated articles about the amazing Max Linder in this great series -- take a look!

Nina (Out of Africa) Cheney, with a new entry on the Eagle Optics Blog -- A bird in the binoculars is better than two pokes in the eyes, sez Curly Howard.

Washington DC's Clown Cabaret Fort Fringe on New York Avenue in Washington DC. 2011 SEASON: March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13 The Shop at Fort Fringe - 607 New York Ave NW

A deeper blue lies across the blue horizon: Treat yourself to Justin Hunter Case in Sydney, Australia!

Footsbarn Traveling Theatre: 2011 - Footsbarn's 40th Anniversary - a year of celebrations including Spring Festival at La Chaussée - March 18-26 - and an exceptional summer workshop in August.
2011 - five countries and three productions - including "Sorry!" our UFO of a show as full of surprises as ever. Our travels and revels will begin in Dublin. 2011 is also a year of preparation for our grand project of 2012: "The Dream" to tour India in a new theatre tent built over there... But that's another story you'll soon hear about!

Daniel Rovai and Margaret Biereye in the Footsbarn spinoff called The Barneys. Daniel acts in a new movie called
Silent Sonata. (slow loader)


P-Funk -- Heading for Australia in April, BUT:

Skin is IN at the Boom Boom Room, and San Francisco's cabarets. RonKat's very funky Katdelic band also features the Sugar Booty Girls and professional dancer Rasa Vitalia, who supplies me with lotsa pictures.

RonKat's Katdelic at the Boom Boom Room March 18; Rasa Vitalia has a link HERE; Eric McFadden Trio; Kim Manning's band Wanderlust on the West Coast; Richie "Shakin" Nagan out of NYC; Freekbass touring out of Cincinnati; Gabe Gonzales gigging out of Detroit; Bernie Worrell, Blackbyrd McKnight, Greg Boyer, Maceo Parker, DJ Soul Sister, recovering from Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and Brooklyn's Lady Miss Kier (assembling a BAND!)

Webmaster Michael's E-Portfolio -- Check out the mask show in ARTWORK!