MEET THE CABIN FEVER CABARET PERFORMERS:

Welcome Reggie Bügmüncher to the Cabin Fever Cabaret stage on Saturday night: Feb 17 at Helsinki Hudson in Hudson, NY!
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Reggie Bügmüncher is bicoastal US sideshow performer based in Philadelphia, PA & Los Angeles, CA. She is half of Philadelphia’s The Olde City Sideshow, co-producer of The Southern Sideshow Hootenanny and has been performing in sideshow for over a decade. As a solo performer, she travels the country working everything from the midway to nightclubs acts and burlesque shows. Reggie is one of the few women in the world performing several unique acts such as the anatomical wonder act and riding a motorcycle in a high wire thrill show. She was voted Burlesque Bitch of the year 2014 by Burlesque Bitch Magazine and has been featured in stories by news outlets from Fox to NPR and in books and magazines on Tattoos and Sideshow. She has opened up for Primus, suspended for Jane’s Addiction, performed for Ripley’s Believe it or Not, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Franklin Institute, and more. Come see her in action on Saturday night!

MEET THE CABIN FEVER CABARET PERFORMERS:

We are delighted to have Ivory Fox joining us in the February 17 Cabin Fever Cabaret show at Helsinki Hudson in Hudson, NY!
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Ivory Fox is a NYC based performer. She loves cheese. She was seen last summer in the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus production of A Cardboard and Duct Tape Spectacular, and we’re so excited to have her onstage with us again!

Check out Stephanie Monseu and Cirkus After School in NYS Network For Youth Success Digest!

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’ Columbia County youth programs, including Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School at the Hudson Department of Youth, the Hudson Juggling Club, and Bindlestiff’s Summer Cirkus August intensive, have received support in the amount of $2,500 from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Hudson Schools Arts & Humanities Endowment Fund.

This means that, as always, youth from the Hudson City School district have free access to high quality out-of-school time programming. Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School uses skills like juggling, stilt walking, tumbling, partner acrobatics, prop manipulation and physical comedy to help youth to become stronger learners, community members, and leaders by encouraging them to express themselves creatively, challenge themselves physically, and work inventively with others. Our projected outcomes are aligned with Social Circus theory, as recognized by the American Youth Circus Organization, which proposes application of instructional and cooperative techniques from the world of circus arts to help accelerate desired outcomes in youth development, therapeutic or community development settings.

The community is invited to “Winter Cirkus” at 4 pm on Monday, January 22, 2018 as students from Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School program at Hudson Department of Youth show their individual skills and group creativity. This free show will feature group acrobatics, juggling, unicycling, stilt walking, and more surprises from the Big Top- as well as showcasing participants’ commitment, goal setting, and collaborative achievements. Students will also present a pre-show for  the professional cast of Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’ matinee performance at Helsinki Hudson on March 18, 2018. For more information about youth circus opportunities, email stephanie@bindlestiff.org or call 518-828-7470.

Bindlestiff’s Columbia County partners include: The City of Hudson Department of Youth, Hudson Hall, Hudson City School District’s Afterschool Program, Operation Unite, the Morris Memorial, and Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood’s Hudson Out of School Time Collaborative. Our funders also include The Galvan Community Foundation, The Stewart’s Foundation, The Rhinestrom Hill Community Foundation, and the Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation.

They’re as strange as they want to be, they’ll never apologize for it, and they’ll be on the Cobra Club stage next Thursday, Jan. 25., for the annual Ladyweirdo edition of Force Majeure Vaudeville.

To be shamelessly bizarre is one of the last taboos for female-identified performers. And the vaudeville stage, with its novelty performers in rapid-fire sequence, is a place where the bizarre flourishes.

It’s going down Thurs. Jan. 25 at The Cobra Club, 6 Wyckoff Ave. in Bushwick (one block from the Jefferson L stop), 8:30 door, 9 pm show. This one is likely to sell out, so advance tix are recommended: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3224097

FEM APPEAL – scifi, horror, and pop culture “nerdlesque”
CRIMSON KITTY – female-female drag
AMAZING AMY – contorting senior citizen
MISTRESS B – erotic balloon sculpture
MISS SATURN – hula-hooping clown
EMOTIONS – “mutation”-style BrukUp dance
BETSY PROPANE – sideshow starlet
TANYA SOLOMON – magician and MC

Come out to support vaudeville and weird women!
More info at www.facebook.com/events/1879846302318895

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

Check out this delightful profile in The New Yorker of the legendary Hovey Burgess, Bindlestiff’s beloved board chair, upon his retirement from teaching circus arts at NYU.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/the-fantabulous-feet-of-hovey-burgess

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.