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Learn to Play Dangerous! Safely! with John & Andy

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:36:07 +0100

Learn to Play Dangerous!Safely!

Clown/Improv/Partnering

Jam Sessions

all five Wednesdays in May 2012 7-9pm

Location TBD (in Manhattan)

Come together with other performers in a safe, structured environment to work-out your play muscles and play out your work muscles. Lead by experienced teacher/performers, John Leo and Andy Sapora, the class will be an opportunity to work closely with other performers, develop partnering trust and rhythms, and most of all, just get up on your feet and do stuff. Bring in something you've always wanted to try, or just show up and be guided through challenging exercises in clown and improv personally tailored to your level and need. With an emphasis on emotional and physical safety combined with opportunities for big fun risk and big fun payoffs. Classes are drop-in/pay as you go or save money by signing up in advance for all five sessions.

$25/session at the door.

$20/session if you sign up on paypal at least 24 hours in advance

$85/if you sign up for all five sessions in advance

more info & to pay:

www.tinydangerousfun.com/workshops

Handshake Uppercut/Peg-ass-us DOUBLE HEADER @ the Tank!

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:12:11 +0100

special double-header performances of

Handshake Uppercut (7:30pm)

&

Peg-ass-us (9:30pm)

Fri/Sat, May 4 & 5, 2012

151 w. 46th St. (bet. 6th/7th), 8th Floor, NYC

see BOTH for $20!

Handshake Uppercut @ 7:30p

with Jay Dunn & John Leo

“Wretched! Wonderful!”

“It made me crème fraîche my panties”

- audience reviews

Two slightly perverted but naively well-intentioned mutes drag each other through life with only each other's mischievous cruelty to keep them warm. With voyeuristic vaudeville bits, and surrealist non sequitors, John Leo and Jay Dunn marry Beckett's existential bleakness, the Marquis de Sade's power-games, and Keaton's comedic sincerity. Both epic and infinitesimal, these gentleman comrades will laugh you out of your seat while they steal it from under you.

Warning: Violence, Sexiness and Booze will be Goin' On.

handshakeuppercut.com

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Peg-ass-us @ 9:30p
with Sophie Nimmannit & John Leo

WINNER! BEST COMEDY, SF FRINGE 2008!

"John and Sophie are the cutest, sweetest, most winsome pair of sexual outlaws in the world, you just want to pet them and cuddle them and take them home and... do evil things to them." -Mistress Matisse, The Stranger

"Heartfelt, Honest, NUDITY. WHAT MORE COULD you want in a fringe show?" Audience Review

A hilariously penetrating look at queer sex for straight folks, complete with sing-a-longs, how-to’s, romance, puppets and soul-baring striptease. John and Sophie have crafted perhaps the silliest, most heartfelt romantic comedy about anal sex imaginable! Their beginner's guide, stuffed with toys and songs, goes off-script with a lover's quarrel that tickles qualms, exposes scruples, liberates desire and comes to a climax where everyone gets off!

**Peg - ass - us contains nudity and sexually explicit content.

www.packofothers.org

John&Andy at Cirque Off!

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:06:01 +0100

John and Andy are gonna Spark-Up Cirque Off! We're gonna Cut-It-Up, we're gonna Tear-It-DOWN!...

CIRQUE OFF 2012

Presented by Cirque This & Triskelion Arts

January 19-21 at 8pm

(John&Andy: just Thurs/Fri, Jan 19/20)

Triskelion Arts' Aldous Theater

118 North 11th St, 3rd Floor

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

Directions: L train to Bedford Ave. Walk north on Bedford, left on North 11th St.

Tickets: $15

Reservations strongly recommended: info@triskelionarts.org or 718.599.3577

THURSDAY, January 19, 8pm

John Leo and Andy Sapora, Audrey Crabtree, Jeff and Buttons, Hilary Chaplain, Billy Dee Bedlam, Vangeline and Jonathan Nosan

FRIDAY, January 20, 8pm

John Leo and Andy Sapora, Billy Dee Bedlam, Carol Lee Sirugo and Honey Goodenough, Groundgrippers Dance Company, James and JF, Vangeline and Jonathan Nosan

SATURDAY, January 21, 8pm

Carol Lee Sirugo and Honey Goodenough, Audrey Crabtree, Hilary Chaplain, James and JF, Groundgrippers Dance Company, The Maestrosities

Cirque This is: Lauri Berritta, Andy Dickerson, Perry Garvin, Ethan Leinwand, and Jason Leinwand

Visit us at our website: www.cirquethis.com

EarthdanceNYC 25th Fundraiser Photos!

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:06:17 +0100

all photos by Mel Lee

THREE WEEK RUN! Handshake Uppercut at Dixon Place

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:27:02 +0100

Two slightly perverted but naively well-intentioned mutes drag each other through life with only each other's mischievous cruelty to keep them warm. With voyeuristic vaudeville bits and surrealist non sequitors, John Leo and Jay Dunn marry Beckett's existential bleakness, the Marquis de Sade's power-games, and Keaton's comedic sincerity. Both epic and infinitesimal, these gentleman comrades will laugh you out of your seat while they steal it from under you.

Dixon Place, NYC

161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey. DIRECTIONS

November 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19 @ 9:30

(Thursdays & Saturdays)

Click Here for Tickets!

Discount Code: FISTFUL

Handshake Uppercut at the NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2011!

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:26:38 +0100

Come check out new material from Jay Dunn and John Leo at the

Amuse Bouche: A NY Clown Theatre Festival Hors d’Oeuvre

Clown Cabaret

WEDNESDAY, September 14, 2011, 8pm

Hosted by The Donovan Ensemble

Directly from their summer tour The Donovan Ensemble hosts this night of clown antics, featuring: Emmett and Merril and their popular comedy stylings. Former Ringling clown Emily Carragher in How to Catch a Man. Festival veteran Vincenzo Tortorici, doing an adaptation of Brecht’s Baden Lehrst or Mr. Smith and Friends.Straight from her work in Austria, Hilary Chaplain does Fred goes fishing. John Leo and Jay Dunn present a snippet from their Vaudevillian Etiquette-Romp, Handshake Uppercut

And Lynn Berg as Awful Knofel does some daredevil clowning! More surprise guests to come!

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Handshake Uppercut at Dixon Place, NYC

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:04:05 +0100

The Pinks & Handshake Uppercut
How the Pinkerton Detectives defeat the Lincoln Assassins and foil the Wild Rose of the Confederacy, No. 1
Tuesday, June 14 at 7:30PM

at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
between Rivington and Delancey
F to 2nd Ave, J to Delancey, B/D to Grand, 6 to Spring

Crime, capers and endless fake mustaches. It’s 1860 and the Pinkerton Detectives uncover a plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln. Kate Warne, the first female detective, and her bumbling partner are on the job with only their wits and a suitcase of improbable disguises. The Gold No Trade company combines the old-style pulp dime novel with historical fiction. Created by Megan Campisi, Max Dana, Jay Dunn, Kevin Lapin, Tara Giordano. Handshake Uppercut by John Leo and Jay Dunn: In the world of Gentleman Comrades, mustachios, perverse mischief and uncouth competitions of baluster games are status quo. Two itinerant brothers literally drag each other through life with only each other's subtle cruelty and profound comfort to keep them warm. Polite restraint suggested, handshakes and uppercuts required.

For Tickets ($12/$15) Click Here!

Clown intensive in the Berkshires!

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:06:42 +0100

I'll be teaching Clown (INTENSIVELY) at EARTHDANCE'S Western Mass. Moving Arts Festival

August 4 (Thursday evening) - August 7 (Sunday afternoon)

The Clown's Job with John Leo

The Clown's Job: be seen...seeing! Zen Buddhism's Beginners Mind will be the jumping off place for this investigation into the painfully silly quality of Now. We'll play fiercely in a nurturing, gun-to-yer-head environment, listening for the unexpected in ourselves, in our bodies and in the audience. So...dip your feet, or plunge head-first (you decide) and come surf that ever-changing point of contact between us and our audience. Useful for beginners and seasoned performers alike.

PLUS! Classes with other great movement/voice teachers!

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LONG-FORM Dance-Theater Improv. @ the TANK!

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:39 +0100

Ready to (Blank)

OUR LONG-FORM HOUR-LONG improvised dance theater piece!
@ The Tank, Upstairs Theatre
May 19 and 20, 2011 at 9:30!

$15 (buy tickets early it’s teeny weeny! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176630

354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Ready to (Blank) is a highly physical improv group that creates spontaneous theater for intimate spaces. Movement, text and sound are woven, smashed and twisted together to transform what waits in the empty space into sweaty stories. The performers interact with the audience and the space itself to discover the impulses unique to the moment and create a piece of “one-time-only” dance/theater.

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Me & El Macho del Norte @ ¡Cinco de Maestro!

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:08:46 +0100

Get ready...

Not only is it America's favorite Mexican holiday, it's also the birthday of the Maestrosities!
That's right, May 5th is ¡Cinco de Maestro!
Come celebrate with us at Dixon Place!
A very special show, featuring very special guests:
The awe-inspiring & mystifying magnificence of The Amazing El Macho del Norte (& John Leo)!
The absurdly adorable and awesomely talented, Uke-Lola!
The magic moves and madcap mayhem of the Leroy Sisters!
The sweetly melodious and savagely comic songs of Francis Heaney!
The stunning beauty and side-splitting comedy of James & JF!
And, of course, none other than The Coolest Band Ever.... The Maestrosities!

Make this a May 5th to remember, by remembering to come on down to
¡Cinco de Maestro!
The funnest fiesta in town! (If the Maestro says it, it must be a real word!)

¿When?

¡Thursday, May 5th!

¿Where?

¡Dixon Place!

(161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey, New York City)

¿How?

¡Tickets are $10!

Get your tickets early, so you don't miss out!

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8951455

The Maestrosities are: Gina Samardge, Rod Kimball, Dave Gochfeld, Andy Sapora & Glen Heroy.