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Peg-ass-us WINS in Boulder!

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:29:39 +0100

Peg-ass-us, won the Encore Performance Award at the 2012 Boulder Fringe!

Read our Audience Reviews!

a sample: "With ease and grace, full wit and full frontal (well, kind of side), John and Sophie blow your mind while filling up every other space in your body with definite wonder. Skillful performers having a great time. And you will too! A must see!"

Peg-ass-us in Denver!

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:34:51 +0100

at work|space (The Laundry on Lawrence)

August 9-11, 2012, 8:00pm

2701 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO 80205

Tickets $12, Buy tickets!

Peg-ass-us at the Boulder Fringe Festival!

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:35:32 +0100

Peg-ass-us returns to its birthplace! Well, no - the show was born in Montreal in 2008. But it was conceived in Boulder in 2007, at the Fringe, where John & Sophie met!

Boulder International Fringe Festival

August 16 - 26, 2012

Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St Boulder, CO 80302 (at University Heights Ave)

Tickets: $12, Student/Senior $10, 2-for-1 on 8/20 BUY TICKETS! Post a review!

Thursday, Aug. 16th, 9:30pm

Friday, Aug. 17th, 6:00pm

Saturday, Aug. 18th, 9:00pm

Monday, Aug. 20th, 8:30pm (2-for-1 tickets!)

Thursday, Aug. 23th, 9:30pm

Saturday, Aug. 25th, 4:30pm

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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!