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Green, green, green!

Folks, I want to thank everyone who helped us raise over $200 for NY’s queer, social justice-oriented Circus Amok and the Ali Forney Center for queer homeless youth! Woo! 

Thank you to everyone who came to the book party for OLYMPIA KNIFE and gave money to help.

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The Circus Comes to Socrates

Friday evening occurred a wonderful convergence of catchings-up: hanging out with old friends Michele Carlo and Last Up Larry…to see the current production of Circus Amok (one of my favorite companies and one which I hadn’t seen perform in over six years)…which was playing at Socrates Sculpture Garden in Astoria (which I hadn’t visited in 22 years)! It was very happy-making. This season’s…

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Circus Amok Returns!

Here’s news so good I had to share it in my Marxfest talk at Coney Island USA last Sunday…and that is Woman with a Beard Jennifer Miller and Circus Amok, her ground-breaking Brechtian street circus, is returning this summer for a tour of New York City public parks. For some background on what she does, see these several posts: On Woman with a Beard Jennifer Miller Circus Amok 2012 show Circus…

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For World Beard Day: On Women with Beards

Today is World Beard Day! Many, I suppose, will be celebrating beards in general, which is all well and good. I think right away of ancient Greeks, men of the 19th century, men of the 1960s and early ’70s, and certain dandyish millennials. But such have never been extraordinary enough to constitute a performing arts category in and of themselves. However, women with beards have. I’ve written…

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Circus Amok ~ 'Escape to New York' 9/10/2022 ~ 5th Ave - Park Slope, Brooklyn

Circus Amok ~ ‘Escape to New York’ 9/10/2022 ~ 5th Ave – Park Slope, Brooklyn

Circus Amok presents their 2022 spectacle, “Escape to New York,” in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Jennifer Miller, with Lex Alston, Kym Bernazky, Greg Corbino, Pher Gleason, David Guzman, Stephanie Woods Jennifer Miller, with Kym Bernazky, Greg Corbino & Stephanie Woods. Jennifer Miller interviews Becca Blackwell & Greg Corbino of ‘Sickfried and Roid’. Sickfreak & Roid ~ Becca Blackwell & Greg…

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'Dark & Stormy' ~ A Dance for the Circus Amok Benefit ~ 2018

‘Dark & Stormy’ ~ A Dance for the Circus Amok Benefit ~ 2018

“Dark and Stormy: when the going gets tough…”. A post-modern parody of Trump and Stormy Daniels using Tina Turner’s ‘Proud Mary’ was created for the Circus Amok Gala Benefit at Dixon Place in 2018. David Thomson invited Patricia Hoffbauer to collaborate. It all started with the wigs. https://vimeo.com/697588874 For copyright purposes, I can’t post the entire dance! IF you want to see it go to…

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Vaudevisuals interview with Jennifer Miller

Vaudevisuals interview with Jennifer Miller

Dick Zigun’s rock-opera ‘Bloody Brains in a Jukebox‘ is being directed by none other than Circus Amok’s own Jennifer Miller. I sat down with her at Coney Island USA and ask about the upcoming show and her directing of it.

https://vimeo.com/393178817 In the prop building area, I got a glance at the infamous Jukebox.

Bloody Brains in a JukeBox is a rock opera, with a libretto by Dick D.…

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"Circus Amok…reinventing the circus form, borrowing drag fabulousness from Charles Ludlam’s Theater of the Ridiculous, large scale transformation using whole-body masks from Bread and Puppet Theater, and the outdoor bally and verbal rhythm and repertoire from the sideshow, as well as movement vocabulary from post-modern dance. The troupe balances danger with laughter, slipping its critique between the pies in the face and the surreal, scary, and sometimes gender-bent characters of the charivari. –Mark Sussman, in Disturbing the Peace: 20th Century Radical Street Performance, 2001