Tag: Performance

Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show – Quarantine Edition – May 4th, 2020

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date May 6, 2020

The beginning of May and the sun is shining and the weather is getting nicer here in New York. May 4th had many great surprises for the viewers!

Host Keith Nelson introduces the show to the viewers.

The Bindlestiff Open Stage is made possible by donations from the viewers like you.

Opening the show was The Great Dubini. (Greg Dubin). He swallowed several razor blades and then regurgitated them on a thread he also ate!

Zander Mowat juggled and balanced many household items amazingly!

Eva Lou Rhinelander juggled, did backbends, walk on a wire, and many other wonderful circus feats.

Michael Rosman painted this Chaplin portrait while it was upside down.

Circus historian, performer, author Hovey Burgess gives the viewers a brief history of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The beautiful and talented Rachel Karabenick performs on the trapeze.

Keith Nelson does so eccentric hat juggling.

Drew Brown performed an extremely delightful cane juggling act.

Gigi (Gina Allison) and the ever so talented dog Zeus did some really nice tricks.

Keith Nelson attempted the sideshow stunt Kendama-Blockhead once more!

David Cain performed numerous juggling stunts.

Sxip Shirey performs live eccentric music as Jonathan Nosan performs his impossible contortions.

Make sure to visit the Dixon Place DP TV shows going on daily!

Make sure you donate to the Bindlestiff Open Stage to keep it happening!

Would you like to perform at the Open Stage? Email: Keith@bindlestiff.org

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Vaudevisuals interview with Sara Juli – “Burnt-Out Wife”

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date January 31, 2020

“An imaginative and brave show performed with fearless vulnerability by the warm, wild and untamed Sara Juli.” ~Broadway Baby~

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Tags burnt-out wife, Dance, DixonPlace, interpersonal relelationships, intimacy, One-Woman Show, Performance, sara juli

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Vaudevisuals interview with Adrienne Truscott – Upcoming Shows!

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date September 5, 2019

Coming to Joe’s Pub starting Sept 20th, 2019

“Adrienne Truscott’s (Still) Asking For It (A Stand-Up Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else)“

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“It’s so exhilarating to see the ugliness of rape discourse taken on, and bested, not with humourlessness or censoriousness, but with firecracker wit, sophication and luminous humanity.” – The Guardian

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Coming to NYU Skirball Center Sept 27th & 28th, 2019

“WILD BORE”

Ursula Martinez – Zoe Coombs Maar & Adrienne Truscott

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“What great theatre is all about: a performance that is wild, incredibly beautiful, bravely defiant, and most importantly, far from boring” – The Music

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~And here is the interview with Adrienne Truscott talking about these upcoming shows~

On a warm summer Sunday afternoon I spoke with Adrienne Truscott in her Brooklyn apartment and listened to her insighful commentary on her two upcoming performances that she was preparing for. These shows are coming up at Joe’s Pub and the other collaboration at Skirball Center at NYU, in New York City. Hear what she has to say about these somewhat controversial shows in the following video!

For more information on Joe’s Pub performance dates go here.

For more information on the Skirball NYU dates go here.

Tickets are going fast! The Joe’s Pub show SOLD OUT last time!

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Tags (Still)Asking for It, Adrienne Truscott, Australian, Comedy, Joe's Pub, NYU Skirball Center, Performance, Rape, The Guardian, Ursula Martinez, Vaudevisuals Interview, Wild Bore, Zoe Coombs Marr

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Vaudevisuals interview with Tammy Faye Starlite – ‘Why’d Ya Do It?’

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date August 19, 2019

“Tammy Faye Starlite went all the way: impersonating Marianne Faithfull, rock musics fallen woman, with an uncanny accuracy. Her simulation of Ms. Faithfull’s vocal style and combustible blend of arrogance and scabrous sarcasm only begins to tell the story.”

Stephen Holden – New York Times

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“Now, as Marianne Faithfull, British pops queen of survival, Starlite resurrects 1979s Broken English as a thoroughly modern tale of adventure, abyss and hard-won vengeance one of the most brutally frank albums of its time, made flesh again, in poignant lethally honest character.”

David Fricke/Rolling Stone

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Following a month of sold-out performances in March of her portrayal of Marianne Faithfull, pegged to the 40th anniversary of the landmark Broken English album, Tammy Faye Starlite has announced a new production titled “Why’d Ya Do It?: Tammy Faye Starlite Performs Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English at Pangea” this fall. The show, directed by Michael Schiralli whose credits include Varla Jean Merman and the Mushroom Heads, Scraping the Bottom: The Most Offensive Songs of Jackie Hoffman and Tammy Faye’s own acclaimed Nico Underground, launches Wednesday, September 25 and then plays every Thursday in October with the run concluding on Halloween. Two preview performances are set for Thursday, September 12 and September 19.

Tammy Faye originally performed Broken English at Lincoln Center and brought it to Joe’s Pub and The Metropolitan Room; later she performed Marianne Faithful: Exposed at Joes Pub and McCabes in Los Angeles. Thereafter, she took Cabaret Marianne on the road to Provincetown, Chicago and St. Louis.

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More information/tickets

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Tags Broek English, David Fricke, Jackie Hoffman, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, Marianne Faithfull, McCabes, Michael Schiralli, New York Times, Pangea Restaurant, Performance, Rockandroll, Rolling Stone, Scraping the Bottom, Stephen Holden, Tammy Faye Starlite, The Metropolitan Room, Varla Jean Merman

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Vaudevisuals interview with Sarah the Bird Girl At Coney Island USA

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date August 5, 2019

Sarah The Bird Girl performing at Coney Island USA

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With her uncanny resemblance to Minnie, Sarah presents a haunting and visceral account of the beauty of difference and a hidden story of endurance, from the voice of a natural born freak. Koo Koo and the other unlikely stars of Tod Browning’s revolutionary film, Freaks (1932), are also honored in this performance. Significant, because the film was banned for 30 years for being too controversial, yet it is so much part of our history. Minnie went on to work at Coney Island, ensuring she was free from the life of asylums. This is a very special Coney Island show that will give you both answers and leave you wanting more.

As an internationally acclaimed circus and physical theater performer, Sarah has performed for several companies around the world, including Cirque Du Soleil. Most recently she starred as lead female in feature film ‘Reflections in the Dust’ and toured with Extant Theatre UK. She has a TEDx talk and recently spoke at the United Nations. “Koo Koo the Bird Girl” won an Australian Green Room Award 2019 for Contemporary Performance.

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REVIEWS

“This is a terrific show – intelligent, emotional and witty, and a direct challenge to the audience’s expectations about performance, identity and what it means to look and be looked at.”

“This is a performance that explores, beautifully, the capacities of the body and the self, rather than letting the differently abled body be shaped by restrictive legal, social and medical strictures that mark ‘deviance’ as a negative thing, instead of a marker of the breadth of human experience.” – New Zealand Theater Review

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“Amazing, moving and revealing… This is an important performance… ” – Express Magazine, Nov 2015

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“Houbolt’s performance evokes a frisson that every misjudged soul can recognise… Evocative… impressive… Houbolt has a gravitas earned through many years performing around the world… Her demonstration of side show is a rare treat.” – Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane, Nov 2016

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“A show that smashes boundaries between herself and the audience… truly unique” – The Creative Issue Nov 2016

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Excerpt from Tod Browning’s “Freaks” featuring Koo Koo the Bird Girl.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY!

AUGUST 14th – 9pm

Sideshows by the Seashore

For more information/tickets go here!

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Tags Blog, Circus, Coney Island USA, Disability, freaks, Historical, Interview, Jim Moore, Koo Koo The Bird Girl, Minnie Woolsley, One-Woman Show, Performance, Sideshow, Tod Browning, Vaudevisuals.com, Video

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Vaudevisuals interview with Tyler West – “The Wait”

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date July 15, 2019

Vaudevisuals’ Jim Moore sat down with Tyler West and found out about Tyler’s new show and his performance work.

Tyler will be performing at The Slipper Room on July 19th, 2019 at 9:30 & 10:30 shows.

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Tags Interview, Performance, Slipper Room, The Wait, tyler west, Variety, Vaudevisuals, Vaudevisuals Interview

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Vaudevisuals interview with Kate Ladenheim & Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date March 31, 2019

MAGNUM OPUS: A Retrospective – the culminating performance of ‘Oh, Celine’.

In 2018, The People Movers’ choreographer and artistic director Kate Ladenheim and performer–designer Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs devised a collaborative project titled OH, CELINE and its heroine, Celine (née De La Croix). This fictional Brooklyn-based avant-garde dancer was conceived as a hilarious yet sincere caricature of a downtown artist. Through a sequence of events – sometimes harrowing, sometimes funny – the clueless New Age-y diva evolved into a provocative, Borat-like figure through whom her creators set to unmask the power structures in the contemporary art scene and our society at large. Over the last few months, Celine’s experiences unveiled through a long series of disarmingly pretentious social media posts, a mystifying art film, and surprising live appearances — all of which inspired unexpected reactions from the audiences. Now, Landenheim and Lynn-Jacobs present a look at their heroine’s journey in MAGNUM OPUS: A Retrospective, a multidisciplinary evening of solo performance combining theater, dance, and scenic installation, presented by Brooklyn Studios for Dance.

Thursday, April 11, 2019 – 8:00pm daily through April 14, 2019

For Tickets and More Information

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Tags A Retrospective, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs, Celine, Celine Dion, Dance, Dance Concert, Kate Ladenheim, Magnum Opus, Mixed Media, Oh, People Movers, Performance, Social Media, Video

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Vaudevisuals interview with John Jesurun & Nicky Paraiso

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date March 29, 2019

‘now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories’

Written and performed by Nicky Paraiso

Directed by John Jesurun

‘now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories’ is the newest work from Nicky Paraiso, an award-winning 40-year veteran of the New York City performance community. In a deep exploration of an artist’s life, Paraiso investigates aging, identity, sexuality, class and race. Directed by MacArthur Fellow John Jesurun, this world premiere is a multi-disciplinary celebration of an artistic community as it grows older and continues to make work, both individually and with each other. Paraiso is joined by choreographer / dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators.

March 22nd thru April 7th, 2019

For more information/tickets!

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Tags Caleb Hammond, Erika Foley, Gabriel Berry, George Emilio Sanchez, intimate histories, Irene Hultman, John Gaspar, John Jesurun, Jon Kinzel, La MaMa, LaMamaETC, Mt. Tremper Arts, Nicky Paraiso, now my hand is ready for my heart, Paz Tanjuaquio, Performance, Samuel Im, Solo Performers, Vicky Shick

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Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance 2019

Post author By Jim R. Moore
Post date March 5, 2019

Wednesday, March 6 | Friday March 8 | Monday March 11

FREE + Open to public. First come, first served.

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

The fifth annual Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP). The program includes a roster of more than 25 features, shorts, and documentaries by artists from Argentina, Russia, Haiti, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Japan, Romania, Australia, Chile, Poland, Belgium, France, the United States, and more. The festival takes place on Wednesday, March 6; Friday, March 8; and Monday, March 11 at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, located at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NYC, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street.

An annual event that showcases films drawn from the world of theatre and performance, the Segal Film Festival presents an international array of work from experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers. This festival is curated from a list nominations by theatre-makers, filmmakers, scholars, and arts professionals. Please visit the Segal Center at www.segalcenter.org for more.

Co-curated by Festival Founder Frank Hentschker (Executive Director and Director of Programming at MESTC), Mara Valderrama, and Margit Edwards.

Producer: Mike LoCicero (MESTC).

Chris Tanner‘s film ‘Theater of Life/Death” screens on Wed. at 1pm