Cirkus After School visits the Big Apple Cirkus!

Thanks to Big Apple Circus for giving the VIP treatment to our Cirkus After School students from Hudson, NY! Back in December, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus brought 11 students and 3 adult chaperones to attend a matinee show at the Big Top in NYC’s Lincoln Center. After our group got a “backstage” tour, Ringmaster Ty McFarlan came out to chat and answer questions, as did star clown Mr. Joel, acrobat and juggler Jan Damm, and wirewalker and acrobat Ariele Ebacher.

Big Apple Circus‘s NYC run ends tomorrow, Jan 7! Go see their splendid show: https://www.bigapplecircus.com

Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After school program activities are sponsored, in part, by: The Galvan Foundation, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, The Stewart’s Foundation, The City of Hudson Department of Youth, and private donors in the community. Thank you from Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Kids!!

Preparing a juggling creation? Apply for “Projects in progress!” in Paris!

Preparing a juggling creation? Apply for “Projects in progress!” 
ARTCENA and Maison des Jonglages, Scène conventionnée organize “Projects in Progress!” – a presentation of ongoing juggling creation projects to professionals and programmers (managers of festivals, venues, producers) on April the 13th, in the frame of Festival Rencontre des Jonglages (Paris, France).
To apply, fill in the form below and submit before February 21.
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  ARTCENA — Centre national 
des arts du cirque, de la rue et du théâtre
www.artcena.fr		 68, rue de la Folie Méricourt
75011 Paris 
contact@artcena.fr
 

Happenstance Theater presents BrouHaHa January 4-21

Happenstance Theater will be performing BrouHaHa at Theater for the New City in the East Village from January 4th -21st!

It’s their New York City debut and they’re are so eager for New York to see it. 
 
SHOW:
BrouHaHa is an existential, clown-esque escapade inspired by images of refugees fleeing on foot, Edwardian workers, cinematic treasures like Fellini’s La Strada and Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, and the dark comedy of Samuel Beckett. Happenstance Theater’s troupe of eccentrics walks the precipice at the end of the world. Their play lights up the darkness like a firecracker. This show appeals to audiences of any age. Video Trailer HERE. Mini-Documentary about the making of the show HERE.
 
WHEN:  January 4-21 with performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm with an additional performance on Monday, January 15 at 8pm
 
WHERE:  Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets)

TICKETS:  $25 General Admission  $15 Students/Seniors
ONLINE: https://www.happenstancetheater.com/brouhaha
BOX OFFICE:  212-868-4444

Introduction to Pochinko Clown Workshop

NYC clowns and performers take note! Philly-based theatre artist and clowning teacher Donna Oblongata is offering a 4-day Pochinko clown workshop in NYC in January at The Woods Cooperative. This work is almost never taught in the U.S.

Donna says: “The course will be four days of intensive exploration and play based in the Pochinko clown pedagogy. The clown style I work and teach in was created by Richard Pochinko, a Canadian clown visionary who developed a way of teaching and exploring clown that emphasizes the performer’s own creativity and imagination as the source of inspiration. It’s very physical work, but there are no specific demands made on the body, so it’s as physically flexible and rigorous as you are. Funny things happen, but there is never a drive or mandate to ‘be funny.’ Honesty, impulsiveness, and working from the heart and body are all we’re aiming for.” For more info or to register, email DonnaOblongata@gmail.com.

Photos from the 2017 NYC Regional AYCO Circus Festival!

Some moments from the 2017 NYC Regional AYCO Circus Festival! Produced by Bindlestiff Family Cirkus for the American Youth Circus Organization, this day-long event gave NYC kids a chance to try trapeze, juggling, clowning, acrobatics, and other circus skills. Thanks to everyone who taught and learned with us! You’re all circus superstars.

 

 

A Hanky and a T-T-T-Top Hat

“A Hanky and a T-T-T-Top Hat”
Buy Live Sea Monkeys or Become a Magician?

Written and Performed by
Bobby Torkova
Directed by Gene Santarelli

An autobiographical solo show from Award Winning Magician Bobby Torkova, about a little boy who stutters and dreams of becoming a magician.

While this is not your traditional magic show, it does feature magic performances to illustrate the story

November 13th & 15th – 7:00pm

Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios
244 W. 54th St.
(Broadway & 8th Ave)
New York, N.Y.

Tickets $10

 

Reservations: ANDReserve@aol.com

www.torkova.com

torkova@torkova.com

LAVA presents A Goddessy

Our friends at LAVA present A Goddessey, a feminist survival story that journeys through landscapes emotional and geologic carrying a transmuting traveler from a bleak and blurry patriarchal present into a rainbow colored feminist future with the help of ancestors geologic and otherwise. A Goddessey is the synthesis, culmination, and explosion of 15 years of earth-moving feminist acrobatic dance by LAVA.

Created and performed by Efe Alibo, Hilary Melcher Chapman, Molly Chanoff, Lex Garnett, Sarah Dey Hirshan, Sarah East Johnson, Lollo Romanski with special guest Ana Carolina

Conceived and Directed by Sarah East Johnson
Music by DJ Tikka Masala
Costumes by Claudia Brown
Lighting Design by Alison May
Additional music by Lee Free and Toshi Reagon

November 30 – December 10
Tickets $15
Special Guests Magma, our junior company, on December 3 & 10

For tickets and more information:  https://ci.ovationtix.com/14/production/981544

Seeking Youth Circus Workshop Leaders!

Photo by Alex Huang

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus produces the American Youth Circus Organization’s yearly NYC Regional Festival, this year on November 18 at Circus Warehouse in Long Island City. We’re looking for

dedicated, professional artists like yourselves to lead workshops for youth of varying levels of skill attainment. You can choose whom you’d like to work with — beginner, advanced, intermediate, pre-professional, and adaptive. Let us know your ideas.

We are committed to creating a festival that provides something for everyone, regardless of age and skill level. We encourage creative workshop concepts that incorporate circus in any way, from stage makeup to choreography, from yoga to arts and crafts — in addition to traditional circus skills. Presenters will be welcome to distribute information and promotional materials about their other circus teaching and activities.

Space is limited, and there’s no time like the present!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H6RFZH6

© 2018 Bindlestiff.