Man In White Dress

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Chicken Nuts and Petunia Teakettle start singing about their magical business cards.  All of a sudden a man with a beautiful child starts singing with us.  He enjoys this merry making fun, he’s asks, “Where’s the circus?”  The answer, “Right here my friend.”  We play a waltz song and before you know […]

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DVCAM: Whitney Thompson
Featuring: Lyssette, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner
How could this be? Right after he splashes a bucket of water on the stereo. Did he do it on purpose? Are they Malicious? Is this all in good fun? We wish to take revenge, but one step into […]

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This is the second time that this has happened and now it’s caught on tape. The workers from Earwax have decided to, when spotting the Bedford Circus of Fools, throw a bucket of water on them every time they are on the Earwax Corner or within the vicinity. Watch as Mr. Egghead tries […]

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photo by Mindy Kaplan The bcfools are warming up. All of us are in a meditative trance from planet One zero three five.
FOOLS: Lyssette Horne, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner
CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Phyllis The Street Orator, Eric the Inner Child, Long Haired Hippy John, The Earwax Watermen
NEW CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Larry the Inspirer, Andy […]

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Photo by Andrew Thompson The noise chatter brings us to new planets. Earth 2. I love earth 2

FOOLS: Lyssette Horne, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner
CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Phyllis The Street Orator, Eric the Inner Child, Long Haired Hippy John, The Earwax Watermen
NEW CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Larry the Inspirer, Andy the Loud Mouth, Mr. Impromptu, […]

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Photp by Andrew Thompson. Hi five Larry the photographer, Hi five indeed! What’s up must come down. New to the circus entourage. He’s wacky and takes pictures YO! A new character, greet him with high fives always!
FOOLS: Lyssette Horne, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner
CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Phyllis The Street Orator, Eric the […]

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Praise, certainty,it’s like really cool!

FOOLS: Lyssette Horne, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner
CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Phyllis One, Eric the Inner Child, Long Haired Hippy John, The Earwax Watermen
NEW CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Larry the Inspirer, Andy the Loud Mouth, Mr. Impromptu, Joey the Great, Bruno the twizzler
DV CAM: Whitney Thompson
1ST PHOTGRAPHER: Mindy Kaplan you can look […]

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I’m going crazy again! Yes I am so over-joyed, that I love potatoes! God bless potatoes!

FOOLS: Lyssette Horne, Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver, Anne Zuerner

CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Phyllis The Street Orator, Eric the Inner Child, Long Haired Hippy John, The Earwax Watermen
NEW CIRCUS ENTOURAGE: Larry the Inspirer, Andy the Loud Mouth, Mr. Impromptu, […]

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The Bedford Circus of Fools will be performing on the street with other street performers during the ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave. An invitational exhibition featuring over thirty storefront installations between North 3rd and North 9th on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. A marriage of ART + COMMERCE creating abridge to a Williamsburg neighborhood in […]

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Well here it is in a nut shell. The beginning, middle and end, the moment, the now. The ones that trigger hearts, open minds and put your brain in wild circles of fire. And yes this is just the beginning and of course again, over and over. Does it ever stop? […]

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Featuring: Matthew Silver

DV CAM: Mallory Neuberger
Photography: Sergei Krasikau
Group work is hard, especially in NYC where individualism and diversity thrive. (a very awesome thing) Slowly and gradually there will be a circus. A circus of fools. Do you remember the Feast of Fools? It happen during the medieval […]

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Here are some pictures Johannes Hoffenreich took on his first visit to New York. He is currently studying in England, he was kind enough to share these images. Thank you Johannes. When we met him he tangled us all up in a phone chord. This pictures are a gem because they introduce two new characters […]

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While dancing with this man who looks like Otto from the simpsons, three children investigate our wagon and one of them manages to take the Hula Hoop. Oh well, I hope the child has fun with it.

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Featuring: Sarah Mayti, Joanne Hsiesh, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Peter Silberstein
Toot, toot, flute, flute! Bang Wang walla wooper snaper! Dog BARk You BARk woof! R you friendly well watch the flute parade, join us, make some music, create and beE! but don’t bite. SMILE!

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Featuring: Phill, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Peter Silberstein
Robotic Space Man plays with his toy truck and bumps into the friendly waiter Phillip, who offers him something to drink. This kind of gives the show a Mr. Rogers feel or does it, you decide. Please, anybody and everyone join the show, become a friendly fool, […]

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Featuring: A Bedford Ave. local (if anybody knows his name tell me), Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Matthew Blaire
This man offered to share us a poem from his heart. This is what this performance movement is about. The public streets are and always will be an outlet to express. Re-awaken us, […]

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Featuring: Nicole E. Muchowicz
A new character’s introduction. Yeeeeeeee Hawwwww! Everybody meet Butter Milky, Butter Milky, Butter Milky, Refrigerator Milky. She lives somewhere from the Midwest or she goes to NYU. One or the other. Someone asks her for directions while doing her intro but she stays in character.

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Featuring: Joanne Hsiesh, Sarah Mayti, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Peter Silberstein
The show begins, The Title:  State Wants a Criminal But Probe.  I hit Joanne and Sarah accidentally hurting them.  I apologize.  We quest across the street.  We pretend we’re watching TV.  All of a sudden we are go in a frenzy about an ad for […]

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Featuring: Joanne Hsiesh, Sarah Mayti, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Peter Silberstein
In this scene, an imaginary building is destroyed and then a radioactive monster eats everybody.  Sarah is doing her own thing.  Me and Joanne continue with the scene, when the building explodes we accidentally throw a coat at a pedestrian.  Luckily he dodges it.  The […]

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Featuring: Marissa Mickelberg
DV CAM: Matthew Blaire
Marissa the Queen of Bedford Ave. Court greets a small child who has a musical instrument.  The Queen tries to convince the little one to perform at the King and Queen’s Court, the child does not wish to partake.  The poor child accidentally slips and falls on the […]

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Featuring: Sarah Mayti, Matthew Silver
DV CAM: Trey Parker
Sarah presents herself as Natalie Portman,  My favorite part is the woman who reacts to this unbelievable spectacle.  I hope to god that Natalie Portman doesn’t get offended.

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Around The King and Queen  
Featuring: Matthew Silver, Marissa Mickelberg
DV Cam: Matthew Blaire
The King and Queen finish up a song and dance battle. We knight people, we scream, act loony, all of the above. In this piece at the end we gather an audience, that actually came to see us dance. Using […]

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Long Haired Hippy John and Space Aliens

Featuring:  Long Haired Hippy John, Matthew Silver
Digital camera: Peter Silberstein 
In this clip we are introduced to our friend Long Haired Hippy John. He sells merchandise at Bedford and Seventh, great person. John helps me look for Aliens with the Alien Detector, but there is a young kid […]

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The Building is Erected
Featuring:  Sarah Mayti, Joanne Hsiesh, Matthew Silver, Eric
Camera Man: Peter Silberstein 
Meet Bedford Ave. local, Eric, I’ve seen him a few times while performing. One time he time he bumped in to me and said he was looking for his friend Koolaid, I think he was playing a mind game with me. […]

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Why do I show you MONEY, because it is the strongest factor that disenchants this magical world. The troupe is too busy these past two weekends, because they have to make money. And that’s all right, but I am not The Bedford Circus of Fool, We are The Bedford Circus of Fools. […]

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Starring: Sarah Mayti, Matthew Silver
Video:  Trey Parker 
First we start out arguing from across the street, a man gives me a cup of gin, I pour it down my fake bottle.  We forgive each other.  We start dancing to a song about bunny rabbits, a man in a full body chicken suit approaches us, danced with […]

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Starring: Sarah Mayti, Matthew Silver
Video: Trey Parker
This time me and Sarah Mayti collaborated on the project. Here is our outline:
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This one was fun, but unfortunately it was cold, so people watched but had to get going, so they can buy that great hot cup of coffee or tea, there ain’t nothing wrong with […]

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Performers: Sarah Mayti, Joanne Hsiesh, Matthew Silver
Camera man: Peter Silberstein
This was a strange performance. A week and a half before, me and Marissa created the outline. We were really pumped and ready to do it. We met again on the Wednesday before the performance. It was me, Marissa and Joan. […]

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During this month me and Marissa took a break from performing. This was a good thing, my knee’s were hurting me and Marissa had a lot of school work to get done. (I ended up performing anyway as the chicken man) This also gave me time to think about what I was doing […]

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Featuring:  Marissa Mickelberg, Matthew SilverPolaroids:  Lech
This was a fun performance, unfortunately it isn’t documented, except with polaroids.  Please if anybody has any pictures, give them too me.  We made it very simple.  we outlined one small play that we did at each site specific spot (stages), by this time they were:

The Brick Wall on the other […]

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Featuring: Matthew Silver
DV cam: Peter Silberstein
 
Marissa was visiting her Aunt, so I was inspired to create my own outline, of course I went overboard with the amount of sound effects and things to do while interacting with the locals. It took me four hours to create it. But I learned my […]

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Featuring:  Matthew Silver, Marissa Mickelberg
DV Cam:  Matthew Blaire 
This was one of our most audience engaging performances.  We were focused on spreading the cheery feeling of merrymaking and it came out and was reflected back to us.  This was after we did one with a microwave as a baby, which didn’t come out as good as […]

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This is the first time I took notes after the project.  I thought it was a clever idea.  We were a bunch of grumpy drunk old farts with a microwave for a baby.  The first half of the performance seemed to catch a negative vibe perhaps our characters were sad or too angry, Marissa kept […]

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