Spiegelworld
Returns!
Twelve
Weeks, 50 Bands and 60+DJs on the Waterfront
Extend
Summer Vibe Into Early November
Featuring Martha Wainwright Sings Edith
Piaf!, Justin Bond & Meow Meow, Amanda Palmer, Antibalas!, Tortured Soul,
Laura Cantrell, Nelly McKay, DJ Logic, Ute Lemper, The Citizen’s Band, Planet
Circus, The Bird and the Bee and more…
Plus
the U.S. Debut of Headphone Disco!
“…
home to outdoor parties that take full advantage of Pier 17 in the Shadow of
the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking the East River… Big Top meets Weimer meets
Miami.”
–
New York Times, August 2007
“Spiegeltent
is a beer garden, art deco dreamland, and quite the summertime spot for live
performances of all stripes.” –
Pitchfork, July 2007
“A
sexy, cabaret-punk Weimar vibe percolates beneath the vintage circus tent …The
best thing to happen to the terminally cheesy South Street Seaport in years.”
–
New York, August 13, 2007
New
York City, June 26, 2008 - Impresario Ross
Mollison today announced that Spiegelworld
will return to Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport for its third
annual Summer carnival, running from August
6 - November 2nd 2008. Once again, Spiegelworld will deliver a
non-stop program of ground-breaking theater, intimate concerts, brazen
burlesque, the city’s top DJs and superb dining, and dancing under the stars,
all at the one stunning waterfront location.
For
its third, expanded season, Spiegelworld will feature not one but two tents.
The Salon Perdu, the company’s
much-loved vintage spiegeltent, will once again be at the heart of
Spiegelworld. This year she will be joined by another beautiful hand-hewn
historic venue, The Deluxe, marking
the first time America has seen two Belgian traveling venues, side by side.”
Tens of thousands of people
came out last summer to enjoy dancing under the stars for one of NY's best
outdoor DJ events. Spiegel will once again host the largest outdoor dance party
in Manhattan this summer, bringing over 60 of the best underground dance DJ's
together under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Spiegelworld
is also pleased to host the North American launch of the highly anticipated Headphone Disco this summer, direct
from Europe. “Imagine two DJs, two separate channels on wireless headphones,
1,000 people dancing, and absolutely no sound apart from the crowd singing
along,” noted Mollison. “It’s hilarious to watch and fantastically fun to
participate in.”
In addition to dozens of live concerts
and dance parties being presented this year, Spiegelworld New York will present the world
premiere of Desir, a daring
new theatrical circus experience. Inspired by the sexual, intellectual and
artistic adventurers of early 20th century Paris, Desir will take audiences backstage at the greatest
nightclub the world has known. Working with the circular design of the
spiegeltent, the creative team, including former Sydney Theater Company
director Wayne Harrison,
choreographer John “Cha Cha” O’Connell
(Enchanted, Moulin Rouge, 2008 Academy Awards) and music director Josh Abrahams(Moulin Rouge), have
created an acrobatic interpretation of La Ronde (The Blue Room) where
one fleeting love affair is merely an entrée to the next encounter.
Absinthe, the
number one NYC summer event since 2006, will once again take New York by storm
with a brand new line up of talent from the seediest and sexiest cabaret dens
of the world. The 2008 season will also present the filthy-rich host of Absinthe,
The Gazillionaire, in the premiere
of his very own fully staged variety show of questionable entertainment. The
Gazillionaire’s Late Nite Lounge will play six nights a week in The
Deluxe, with his band Fish Circus.
More
details regarding the live music and DJ programs can be found below.
For
more information about Spiegelworld or the performances, or for tickets to any
of the shows, please contact Girlie Action:
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Spiegelworld’s Live Concert Series
*
OPENING NIGHT *
August
10 @ 10 pm
Meow
Meow & Justin Bond: Heavy Petting
A Spiegelworld Exclusive!
Celebrating
the opening of the third annual Spiegelworld Concert Series, Meow Meow &
Justin Bond take the stage together for the first time. Get your inoculations against Cat Scratch
Fever and prepare yourself for some Pet Sounds as Tony-nominated performer
Justin Bond and international cabaret diva Meow Meow set off a feline frenzy at
the Spiegeltent inaugurating the "Heavy Petting" sessions led by
Emmy-Award winning Lance Horne.
Join two
of the most infamous darlings of the cabaret cogniscenti as they join forces to
disgrace the stage together for the first time in an evening of claws out
caterwauling -an outpouring of lust and love gone wrong. This will be a
love-fest of explosive vocal pyrotechnics and surreptitious fondling -- a hot
and heaving one night only not to be missed affair!
August
11 @ 10 pm
Amanda
Palmer
w/ Special Guests Vermillion Lies & Reggie Watts
Spiegelworld Exclusive!
Amanda Palmer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo
The Dresden Dolls, brings her electrifying solo repertoire in a reprise of her
legendary Spiegeltent engagements across Europe and in celebration of her
forthcoming album, “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” produced by Ben Folds.
August
12, 8 pm – 1 am
BUST
Magazine 15th Anniversary Celebration!
The magazine for women with something to get
off their chests is celebrating its 15-year anniversary in publication.
"BUST has the same qualities as found in all great women: it's smart,
honest, funny, and dirty," says SNL's Amy Poehler. Over the years,
the magazine has helped redefine feminism with its punk-rock ethos and fierce
and funny contribution to women's media. To celebrate its quinceañera the
birthday girls of BUST are hosting a blow out bash, sponsored by Dr. Martens.
Funny lady Amy Sedaris will emcee
and featured performers will include Leslie
Hall, Free Blood, Murray Hill, the Pontani Sisters, The World Famous BOB,
Morningwood and the aerial acrobatics of Lady Circus. JD Samson
of Le Tigre/MEN will be DJing!
*Exclusive pre-party area from 8pm - 9:45pm to
be hosted in the DJ Tent, East Wing of the Garden and surrounding booth areas.
First 500 attendees will receive a BUST goodie bag! Salon Perdu, is where the
main performance will take place from 10pm-1am.
August
19 @ 10 pm
Laura
Cantrell plus Very
Special Guests
presents
"Now
Let Us Praise Famous Women"
A Spiegelworld Exclusive!
Laura Cantrell leads an impressive crew of musicians and
featured vocalists presenting an evening celebrating "lost" heroines
of American Music. Having made an art form of finding and re-presenting
forgotten gems with her band or on the radio, Cantrell now turns her attention
to some of the most inspiring yet obscure, misunderstood, or disregarded female
artists of the 20th Century. Laura will be joined by guests performing
celebratory interpretations of songs from across the landscape of American
music, conjuring the gingham, glitter and greasepaint of yore.
August
24 @ 10 pm
STEAL
THIS TICKET! A Musical Tribute to Abbie Hoffman
with Steve
Molitz (Phil Lesh & Friends, Particle), Jon Gutwillig (the Disco Biscuits),
Michael Travis and Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident, EOTO), DJ Logic (MMW),
and very special guests.
Spiegelworld Exclusive!
Making his Spiegelworld debut, Molitz leads an all-star cast
in celebration of the anniversary of Hoffman's crashing of the New York Stock
Exchange in 1967, creating a frenzy by throwing dollar bills onto the trading
room floor from the viewing deck above, considered one of Hoffman's greatest
social commentaries on America's insatiable obsession with excess. This Counter
Culture celebration, promising a Late Night of live improvised dance music,
performance art, mischief and mayhem. The festivities kick off with a set from
EOTO, followed by DJ Logic, and closing with the Agents of Mayhem (Molitz,
Gutwillig, Travis, Hann, DJ Logic, and very special guests).
August
26 @ 10 pm
Ute
Lemper “Angels Over Berlin”
By
Popular Demand!
Ute Lemper and band returns to the venue that best suits the
visionary worlds of this acclaimed singer. If you missed her unforgettable
sold-out 2007 Spiegelworld premiere engagement – do not miss your chance!
August
31 @ 10 pm
Tortured
Soul
Making their return
Spiegelworld engagement in celebration of their highly anticipated new album,
Tortured Soul is music that will move you. It's a new concept in the world of
house music that has achieved international acclaim: it's live. The
instrumentation is simple and organic drums, electric bass, vintage keys, and
soulful vocals. Tortured Soul filters club sounds like Afro Beat and Samba
through a lens of jazzy House and American Soul to reflect intense grooves
evocative of Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, the New Deal, and Fela Kuti
September 7-9 @ 10 pm
The
Citizens Band presents “The Panic is On”
Spiegelworld Premiere!
Spiegelworld is proud to welcome visionary cabaret cohorts
The Citizens Band for a three-night blow-out residency. The Citizens Band is a
sexy, ribald musical troupe renowned for their dazzling song and dance
performances. “The Panic Is
On,” their sixth original show, finds the troupe trapped in
makeshift bomb shelter where they're forced to find common ground and hope in a
terror filled world. Performing a spirited mix of classic songs and original
compositions they ponder such issues as fear mongering, war, immigration,
xenophobia, poverty and their own dreams for political change.
Sept.
11-13 @ 8PM, Sept. 13 @ 10PM
New
Orleans Bingo! Show
NYC Premiere! Dressed in black, white and red like the
leering faces on a good poker hand, the Bingo! Show is a multimedia stage
experience that includes original black-and-white silent films, aerialists,
dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games, slapstick comedy
and shady characters who remind you that every stage door opens into a dark
alley. Ringleader Clint Maedgen, a Louisiana native and sixteen-year New
Orleans resident, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of downtown New
Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable chops; The band is a
Brechtian cabaret funneled through New Orleans' Ninth Ward via the noir
surrealism of Twin Peaks. In recent years, Bingo! Show has toured with the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, aiming to update, twist and preserve the unique
quality that is New Orleans style showmanship. But as in the finest dime
museums, sideshows and collections of oddities since the dawn of vaudeville,
seeing is believing. So step up to the ticket booth, surrender a nominal sum
and allow yourself to be astonished, amazed and amused by America's best-loved
musical gameshow cabaret – The New Orleans Bingo! Show.
September
14 @ 10 pm
WAU
WAU SISTERS in All U Can Eat!
Spiegelworld Exclusive!
They made Princes William and Harry squirm (TWICE!), played
the Grammy red carpet, WON Fringe Report's BEST CABARET EDINBURGH FRINGE
2004, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT 2008 at Brighton Fringe and set the
BRITISH TABLOIDS abuzz (google wau waus + princes!) and now this charming but
daring and utterly hilarious duo, returns to NYC’s South Street Seaport
Spiegeltent after two years of sold out international shows to perform a brand
new show, ALL U CAN EAT!!
With a 20-piece hare-brained orchestra and special guests and music from
their appearance in John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking film “SHORTBUS”, The
Wau Wau Sisters deliver an hour of mishaps and mayhem in an all-new show.
Straddling the hilarious gap between performance art and burlesque, comedy
and camp the show starts at a pitch, boasts a smorgasbord of
downtown's finest performers, including NEAL MEDLYN and PETE KOHL of TRAGEDY -
12 waiter/disciples in all, and builds to a bacchnallian finale, A LAST
SUPPER that will send every preacher who’s ever preached running for cover 6 ft
under!! The act that the New York Times calls “irreverent, sacrilegious,
lascivious, foulmouthed, and uninhibited” this delicious show in this divine
venue may be the only hope for keeping NYC down, dirty, and delirious!!! DON'T
MISS THEIR LAST NYC APPEARANCE BEFORE THEY HIT THE ROAD FOR ANOTHER YEAR!! With
music by special guest SCOTT MATTHEWS (Shortbus soundtrack ) AND THE AMBITIOUS
ORCHESTRA; Italian rogue performer CARMINE COVELLI; Unnervingly handsome
acrobat AIDAN O'SHEA.
September
15 @ 9:30 pm
David
Yazbek and His Warmest Regards – An Evening with the Monkey Man
Spiegelworld Debut!
"The songwriter David Yazbek is a daredevil juggler
catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination. The nihilism
in his deceptively rollicking songs is sometimes so pungent that you wonder how
much of his own bile he can stomach before he shrugs and allows those pins to
bop him on the head." – Stephen Holden, NY Times
Making his highly anticipated Spiegelworld debut, David
Yazbek is a long-time cult favorite—a recording artist, vocalist and pianist
known for his thrilling live performances and irreverent style. He is a
two-time Tony Award nominee, whose shows The
Full Monty and Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels have played in over 20 countries. His first album, The Laughing Man, won the N.A.I.R.D.
Award for Best Pop Album of the Year. He is also a Grammy-nominated record
producer and an Emmy-Award winning TV writer (for Late Night with David Letterman).
September
16 @ 10 pm
Martha Wainwright Sings Edith
Piaf!
Spiegelworld Exclusive!
A rare, intimate evening with one
of contemporary rock’s most endearing artists. Interpreting the music
and spirit of Piaf, Martha brings the house to its knees, proving the
seemingly endless facets of this treasured folk-pop artist’s many talents.
FAMILY
CONCERT!
September
20 @ 12 & 3 pm
The
Sippy Cups LIVE
Celebrate
Music Together
featuring NYC performer/teachers from the most loved early
childhood music program.
A high-energy rock and roll experience
for families! Imagine a show where Blue Man Group meets the Flaming Lips. The
Sippy Cups were born in 2004 at a community fundraiser for a playground in a
coastal town just south of San Francisco. Early childhood music teacher and
lead singer Paul Godwin invited two other neighborhood dads - guitarist Mark
Verlander and juggler Doug Nolan - to help raise the spirit for the park. They
found themselves morphing Nirvana's disillusioned tirade "Smells like Teen
Spirit" and Syd Barrett's "Bike" into a hilarious rallying cry
for a freewheeling tricycle playground mash-up. The concept caught on quickly
with sold-out shows at local clubs and enthusiastic press coverage. Parents as
well as their kids can go nuts enjoying the Sippy Cups playing their distinct
brand of real rock and roll!
September
21 @ 10pm & Monday, September 22 @ 10 pm
Yard
Dogs Road Show w/ Special Guest Indigo
By Popular Demand!
A Spiegelworld return engagement
following last year’s unforgettable sold-out performance and featuring belly
dancing phenomenon Indigo, The Yard Dogs Road Show is a hobo cabaret, a living
patchwork of vaudeville and rock and roll. They lead the modern hobohemian on a
visual and sonic journey through part of history that may or may not have
existed – followed by an ambitious return to the emotional challenges of our
punch-drunk contemporary world. It’s a true story on stage: sword swallowers,
dancing dolls, fire eaters and sunset hobo poetry - all animated by the live
sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon heavy band.
September
23 @ 10 pm
Benevento-Russo
Duo
w/
Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra
Spiegelworld Premiere!
An evening of music not to be missed!
The acclaimed organ and drum pioneers Benevento-Russo Duo take the stage at
Spiegelworld with Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra for an unforgettable evening of
instrumental music plus very special guests. The Benevento/Russo Duo formed in
2002 when Russo and childhood chum Marco Benevento combined forces in NYC’s
underground club scene. With hardly any written material at first, the band
made a virtue out of necessity by converting loose sketches into
improvisations. They are an indie-rock band that jams - a jazz-combo that
rocks. Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra is an 18-piece, genre-bending jazz orchestra
that has successfully fused the pop music world with the stylistic and
improvisatory concepts of modern jazz. Arranged and conducted by the
saxophonist Travis Sullivan, The Bjorkestra performs the music of visionary pop
artist Bjork, spanning her entire catalogue as a solo artist, truly creating a
big band sound for the 21st Century.
September
28 @ 2:30 pm
Mor
Karbasi
Presented
in Association with World Music Institute
Spiegelworld
Premiere!
Described by London’s Jewish Chronicle as a purveyor of
“Spine tingling Gypsy Music”, young London-based Israeli singer and pianist Mor
Karbasi sings in Ladino, Spanish, Hebrew and on rarer occasions, English. Mor
is single-handedly bringing Ladino songs from as far back as 1492 to a wider
public. Her writing has been considerably assisted by her interesting lineage.
She is directly descended from both Moroccan and Persian Jews. She has been and
indeed is, an avid supporter of Flamenco which provides a strong flavour
throughout all her songs
September
29 @ 10 pm
The
Dodos
with Special Guest AU
Spiegelworld Premiere!
Throw together a country-blues-loving
guitarist and a metalhead drummer and you get the Dodos, a fascinating
psych-folktronic duo. Following an appearance at
this year’s Siren Festival and the release of their second album Visiter, San Francisco’s The Dodos band bring their ecelctic
sound influenced by West African Ewe drumming, progressive metal and country
blues fingerpicking enhancing the syncopated rhythms coming from the acoustic
guitar to create one of today’s most unique sounds.
September
30 @ 10 pm
The
Bird & The Bee
Spiegelworld NYC Exclusive!
Making their Spiegelworld debut, The Bird and the Bee are an
indie-pop/electronica duo from Los Angeles, CA comprised of Inara George on vocals and
Greg Kurstin, who have
carefully built a musical concept that hides new surprises within every nook of
Tropicalia, Shibuya-kei and French Pop. The Bird and the Bee have bravely
managed to break the aging mold of indie-pop while beckoning enticingly from
the genre’s periphery.
October
4 @ 10 pm
Midnight
Milonga
Spiegelworld
Premiere!
Tine Herreman, one of NYC’s best tango
DJs’ will spin uplifting tangos, soaring valses and irresistible milongas, each
a different dance form within the family of Argentine tango. Part of the NY
Tango Festival, this all-night party will start with a dance lesson. Milongas
were banned in Argentina throughout the 60s and 70s, and had a resurgence in
the 1990s; today they have become one of the world’s great dance party
experiences!
October
5 @ 10 pm
Antibalas!
Spiegelworld Premiere!
True, some bands are simply meant to lead, and Brooklyn’s
Antibalas -- as tough and diverse as the city that birthed them nearly a decade
ago -- has continued to do just that. The group, whose name means “bulletproof”
in Spanish, has indeed proved they possess the mettle to not only survive but
also thrive by employing a musical arsenal that has become known worldwide.
Initially using the revolutionary blueprint of afrobeat as a launching pad, the
dozen-strong members of Antibalas weave a rich tapestry of latin, jazz,
classical, funk and soul into their horn-driven mix.
October
7 @ 10 pm
Tim
Fite & Mike Relm
A Spiegelworld Exclusive!
Spiegelworld is proud to present two of
today’s most unique and progressive music and multi-media performers. The
singular skratch musician phenomenon Mike Relm continues on the road much less
traveled. Sharing the stage with nothing more than two turntables, a DVJ, a
mixer, and a microphone, Mike Relm defies any preconceived notions of what a
solo DJ can achieve musically and visually. Making his Speigelworld return, Tim
Fite is a lo-fi lone wolf from Brooklyn, living somewhere between
folk and hip-hop, and with his latest album — a harsh indictment of consumerism
and the American dream of selling out — he has made himself into a cultural
gadfly.
October
12 @ 10 pm
Nellie
McKay
“Songs of Fear and Longing: Nellie McKay Covers the Classics!”
Spiegelworld
Debut!
Making her long awaited Spiegelworld
debut, Nellie McKay has become one of downtown’s most eclectic favorites.
Critics and audiences aren't the only ones struggling to describe Nellie
McKay's music. The accomplished singer, songwriter, actor and activist
struggles with labels as well, calling her approach 'schizophrenic voodoo.'
Schizophrenic because she jumps genres – from Tin Pan Alley pop and cabaret to
reggae, rap and jazz - voodoo because these elements mysteriously gel with her
evocative, playful, and bold lyrics.
October 13 @ 10 pm
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club plus very Special Guest
Spiegelworld Debut!
Engaging, riveting, sad and
humorous; demanding the audience to participate both live and while listening
to their albums; Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been branded with every musical
description possible. This seems fitting, as SCAC describes their music as
American (Is that not what America is and has been, a mixture of every one and
thing resulting in something new?); and after a decade of working and living as
SCAC, they have created their own genre.
Saturday, October 18 @ 8PM
Amy G in ‘Round She Goes
NY’s slapstick sweetheart from 2006 Absinthe,
called “a comic powerhouse” (The Australian), returns with a solo expose. Once
a serious artiste, this world tour sees Amy G tearing up the stage on roller
skates, with a ukulele (it’s all the rage) and doing her best to keep it
together while letting it all hang out. With so much spin, where she stops
nobody knows. Some explicit material with mild to seething cultural
significance. “Expert and inspired” – (New York Times)
October
19 @ 10 pm
John Kelly & Dargelos
In a Spiegelworld premiere concert comprised of German
cabaret songs, French chanson, art song, and original video, John Kelly
explores his vocal ID through Dargelos, the brother of Kelly’s muse (and former
alter-ego) the Greek-American contralto Dagmar Onassis. This performance
follows Kelly’s recent appearance in London’s Tate Modern, where he
collaborated with and performed live for the photographer Nan Goldin’s “The
Other Side” slide show. John Kelly’s Spiegelworld debut brings a new collection
of work by Kurt Weill and other Weimar composers to the fore following his now
legendary interpretations of the music of Joni Mitchell.
October 20 @ 10 pm
Jollyship
the Whizbang
Spiegelworld Return Engagement!
The return of one the most notorious and naughty pirate
puppet rock band in the world. No other pirate puppet rock band is quite like
this. They are the true leaders of the phenomenal movement of pirate puppet
rock bands worldwide. Brooklyn’s nautical rock wunderkind Jollyship the
Whiz-Bang is (alternately or simultaneously) a puppet troupe, rock band, and
theater production company. They have performed in festivals the world over,
invited on the renown of their legendary live shows, which incorporate music,
puppetry, video and comedy in elaborate spectacles.
Spiegelworld’s DJ Series
Wednesdays – La Rumba (7:30 pm)
This long running NYC salsa
party will present live salsa dance performances, special guest DJs and salsa
lessons.
Thursdays - Headphone Disco (9pm)
DJ Bruce Tantum (Nightlife Editor of Time Out NY) will join UK
Headphone Disco DJ's Cameron Craig, Bryan Roseman and Grahame Ferguson to kick off the opening night of this U.S. debut.
Danish DJ Peter Munch will maintain
the flow on Channel A as the resident DJ, with special guest DJs on Channel B
throughout the season.
Fridays - Planet Circus
(9pm)
Featuring a variety of locally and internationally known DJs
including Ursula 1000, Kervyn Marks,
Fabian Alsultany and DJ Haj
from GlobeSonic , the new all female
DJ party SHAKTI (produced by Turntables on the Hudson), and special
live performances on the Pier by Lady
Circus and LED Hooping sensation Groove
Hoops all summer long.
Saturdays – RainDanceNYC
(9pm)
AfroBrazilian House Music
at its very best, featuring resident DJ Sid LVaga with many
special guests, including Chris Anibell of Afrokinetics, DJ True of ALMA, The Melting Pot, Rich Medina, Wise Acre
from Los Angeles, DJ Cato, Captain Planet, the all female
sensation UBIQUITA, Nightshade, and many more!
Sundays – PLAYA (3 pm)
Featuring some of NY's best
classic soulful dance parties including The
Melting Pot, Benny Soto, Rob Fernandez, Sleepy and Boo
of Basic NYC and Joann Jimenez.
The
DELUXE Series (Featured Acts)
Sunday, September
7 @ 8 pm
HUMOR ABUSE
What happens to
a boy whose Dad is a clown
? Humor Abuse.
Created by Lorenzo Pisoni (Pickle Family Circus, Cirque Du Soleil, now in Equus
on Broadway with Daniel Radcliff) and Erica Schmidt (As You Like It at The Public, Debbie Does Dallas at
the Jane Street) , this solo
performance tour-de-force is about
coming of age in the circus;
learning the tricks of the trade -- literally -- and surviving the relationship between father and son.
September
15 – Saturday, September 27
Susan
Marshall & Company “Sawdust Palace”
in THE DELUXE!
NYC Premiere!
Elegance and humanity balance the
unexpected in Susan Marshall & Company’s surprising Sawdust Palace, a
90-minute suite of 20 “acts” created to be performed in a spiegeltent but
suitable for any thrust or theater in the round. In this mix of tender and
entertaining dances, the sensuality and sexual tension always present in Susan
Marshall & Company’s work gets blended with a heavy dose of vaudeville,
cabaret and humor. The music for the show ranges from live piano selections to
popular cabaret and contemporary electronic, while the acts include aerial
dances, feather plucking, and intricate waltzes all articulating a contemporary
viewpoint in a music hall setting. Despite the absurd and sometimes feverish
proceedings, these dances possess the same rich emotional subtext for which the
company’s work is best known.
September
14 @ 3:00 pm & 8:00 pm
Norvak Poderoso DeMente: A Hypnotelekineticparanormal
Show
Presented
by Celebrate México Now 08 Festival
A delightfully wacky fusion of pantomime, clowning, and theatrical cabaret, Norvak
Poderoso DeMente (Norvak, The Powerful Mind Reader) is the creation of
Andrés Aguilar and Artús Chávez, graduates of the Clown College of Ringling
Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus. In his Hypnotelekineticparanormal
Show, Norvak Poderoso DeMente demonstrates his hypnotic, telepathic,
clairvoyant and telekinetic capabilities, but he is constantly interrupted by a
volunteer from the audience, Don Domingo, who resists being hypnotized and
ultimately reveals a life-changing secret. Since its premiere in 2006, the show
has enjoyed month-long runs at ‘El Péndulo’ and Centro Cultural Helénico in
México City, and has been presented at the 9th Festival of Pantomime, Circus
and Clown RODARA (Puebla, Mexico), Festival of Tenerife Clownbaret (Canary
Islands, Spain), and Apallasa’t (Barcelona, Spain).
September
15 @ 8:00 pm
Mike
Edison Presents
No-Holds-Barred
Literary Battle Royale
Author Mike Edison (I Have Fun Everywhere I
Go) referees an unprecedented spoken word battle among some of New York’s most
dangerous authors including Adam Rapp and a host of others. Backed by a
dangerous A Team of rock’n’roll and jazz musicians, each reader will tell
stories or read from their work in a mano a mano face-off, the winner to be
decided by the audience.
