Bindlestiff Bulletin Board
The Lastest Cirkus News, Fresh Off the Bindlestiff Grapevine
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The New Vaudeville Revue: A New Bindlestiff University Partnership Program
Bindlestiff has created a new University Partnership Program: The New Vaudeville Revue.
In association with the American Vaudeville Museum, Bindlestiff has created a program that works with college faculty and students to create the New Vaudeville Revue, a stage show. In November 2009, Bindlestiff brought the program to the School of Dance at the University of Arizona Tucson. The two-hour vaudeville spectacular played to four nights of sold out audiences! Watch a clip on YouTube!
NYC's first Unicycle Festival coming September 3-5, 2010
The first NYC Unicycle Festival will be rolling across New York City September 3 - 5, 2010. Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. is producing this three-day event featuring one-wheel tours across the city, a gathering at Grant's Tomb, and a grand gathering on Governors Island. The festival will feature unicycle races and games, trials demonstrations, public shows, a long-distance ride, and the largest group of one-wheeled enthusiasts ever to gather in the five boroughs! 2010 will be the first year of a festival that is to become an annual tradition for the Big Apple. For more info visit the NYC Unicycle Festival website.
The Bindlestiffs - Season 1 DVD coming this summer
The 10-episode Season 1, Webby-nominated series, The Bindlestiffs will be released on DVD in the summer of 2010. Stay tuned for news on Season 2.
Bindlestiff Co-founder Directs Cascade of Stars
Keith Nelson, Bindlestiff co-founder, is directing the Cascade of Stars show at the 2010 International Juggling Convention in Sparks, NV. Find out more here.
Buccaneer Bindlestiff's Swashbuckling Cirkus -
Coming Soon to a Port Near You!
Bindlestiff is creating a new family oriented production, Buccaneer Bindlestiff's Swashbuckling Cirkus, premiering summer 2010.
Ghostwalk Hudson 2010
Ghostwalk is preparing for its second year of haunting the historic streets of Hudson. Bindlestiff and Walking the Dog Theater are teaming up to create this educational and entertaining youth program. Details here.
Bindlestiff Making Every Day Cirkus Day!
Bindlestiff has been taking part in a number of Cirkus-centric celebrations
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Bindlestiff celebrated World Circus Day (April 17) in Saint John, New Brunswick |
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Keith Nelson celebrated Sword Swallower's Appreciation Day by taking part in "The Big Swallow" at Ripley's Believe It or Not (Times Square, NYC) |
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret opened their 15th NYC season at Dixon Place in March 2010 |
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A number of Bindlestiff unicyclist have taken part in the Unicycle NYC Bridge Tour, which included a 42-mile ride with the 5 Boro Cycle Tour. |
Family Update: Bindlestiffs Appearing With Other Productions
It may not be the entire Bindlestiff Family Cirkus show, but this year there are many Bindlestiff Family members performing across the nation and world with other productions, from German varieté theaters to cruise ships, to Cirque du Soleil. Here are just a few:
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Jonas Woolverton is performing in Cirque du Soleil's Zoomanity in Las Vegas |
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Joel Baker is performing in Cirque du Soleil's Love |
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Michelle Matlock is performing in cirque de Soleil's Love |
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Magic Brian is featured in street performing festivals across the world |
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Hilary Chaplain and Angelo Iodice have been working the German varieté stages. |
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Kinko the Clown and Richterscale took part in a clown festival in Hangzhou, China. It may very well be the first time a tramp clown has performed in communist China. |
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus In Print
The Bindlestiffs are on proud display in a number of prestigious publications:
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Featured in Sideshow Encyclopedia
Marc Hartzman's American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers includes the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Published by Tarcher/Penguin.
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Featured in History of Vaudeville
Trav S.D., Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Advisory Board Member, features Bindlestiff in his hysterical and histrionic history of Vaudeville, No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous. Published by Faber and Faber.
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Featured in Vaudeville Encyclopedia
Frank Cullen (with Florence Hackman and Donald McNeilly) has created one of the most extensive histories of Vaudeville in Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers. In this two volume set, the Bindlestiffs are well represented as a performing troupe, and a few of its artists also are featured on their own. Published by Routledge.
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Featured in Book About Underground Circuses
J. Dee Hill and Phil Hollenbeck's Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus devotes a chapter to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Also featured are Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Cloudseeding Circus, Zamora the Torture King, the Yard Dogs, Enigma, the Brothers Grim Sideshow, and many more. Published by Soft Skull Press.
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Alums on the 'Net
The Bindlestiffs are on proud display in a number of prestigious publications:
Bindlestiff Co-Founder Stephanie Monseu invited to serve as Board Member
of Columbia County Council on the Arts
Bindlestiff's upstate location in Hudson, NY is the home of the Columbia County Council on the Arts. Founded in 1965, the CCCA has a membership of over 800 individual artists, writers, sculptors, filmmakers, community volunteers, weekend and full-time residents, educators and business owners serves the thriving arts community in Columbia County.
Bindlestiff Joins Columbia County Performing Arts Collective
Since moving to Hudson in 2005, Bindlestiff co-founder Stephanie Monseu has become active and committed to the growth and promotion of the Arts in Columbia County, while remaining involved in Bindlestiff's New York City performing and educational outreach activities.
Known as PerformColumbia, the collective is an association of twenty-five professional and community-based organizations. It's members have come together to promote and nurture the performing arts as essential to a healthy economic and cultural life in Columbia County. The performing arts businesses in PerformColumbia produce theater, music, opera, film, circus, variety and more. Visit PerformColumbia.com for more info.
Bring the Cirkus to Your Town!
We are seeking venues to host programs in 2010 and beyond. Bindlestiff develops performances, educational programs, as well as long-term residencies. We are looking for venues that are Cirkus friendly: the larger the stage, the grander the show. For booking details email Stephanie.
Support the Variety Arts
Increases in gas prices, insurance costs, legal fees, and the declining economy are only the beginning of the financial perils facing Bindlestiff. You can help. Every donation is greatly appreciated, whether it is five dollars or five thousand dollars. With your help, Circus, Sideshow, Vaudeville and Burlesque continue to thrive. Click here to donate.
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