JOLLY OLD ENGLAND- WEEK 1

We're off to England for a month to perform in the British debut of the NYC cabaret show Le Scandal at the Brighton Fringe Festival. The trip got off to a THRILLING start when we were seated on the plane next to the female-to-male tranny porn star- Buck Angel! We know Buck from The Box as "the man with a pussy"- and he enthralled me all night long with stories about the porn world! He even invited us to stay with him and his wife in Mexico!

Brighton is a really cool sea-side town along the English Channel- it's known as being the "Little London" and kind of classy and gay. Le Scandal is doing 14 shows in this upside down purple cow tent called the Udderbelly.

Our producer/host (Fiona) put us in an AMAZING flat and it's awesome! It has a balcony, a big comfy rug, flocked wallpaper, fancy old shudders and you can see the sea from the window! It's a part of Brighton called by the locals "Hove, actually" because it's fancy. Across the street all week this famous boxer who just went through a messy divorce after his reality show bombed stayed in the Landsdowne Hotel. He drove a BIG RIG around. We couldn't help but take photos with it one night.

CIRCUS SCHOOL- THE END....FOR NOW

Monkey and I had to leave our Pro-Track peeps in Vermont two and a half weeks early to do the Brighton Fringe Festival. It was bittersweet leaving early- we were happy to get the work but were sad to not be able to perform alongside all the bad-ass circus friends we trained with for nine long months! Monkey and I are definitely coming back in the fall to train more though- so it's not exactly good bye!

PHILADELPHIA

We flew down to perform at a few of the Philly Film Festival after-parties and caught up with the Peek-A-Boo Revue and Skeletor!


Here I am in the lobby of The Prince Theater. We went there to watch a documentary called "The Tingler" about the master of cinema gimmicks- William Castle. Flying skeletons, buzzing seats, insurance policies- the works! Such a great self-made American entrepreneur.

MOISTURE FESTIVAL SEATTLE

We performed 7 shows in 5 days at the 5th annual Moisture Festival. This was our second year performing alongside hilarious and inspiring vaudeville, variety and burlesque performers in the glory of blooming cherry blossoms, perky daffodils and the bright green grass of Seattle in April.

Oh- the glamour! Being in the presence of these gorgeous creatures was like a succulent dessert, an impeccable cocktail and a racy romance novel all poured into a sequined gown...Miss Indigo Blue, Waxie Moon and The Swedish Housewife.

























These are the A-DORABLE Aerialistas who performed the cutest synchronized cupcake-inspired aerial hoop act.










Over at Hale's Brewery Palladium, we caught up with the Rasypini Brothers. We had worked with Dan (on the right) at Baltimore's Mini-Fest and greatly admire and respect him- he's profoundly funny in my book.
http://www.moisturefestival.com/

PASTIES IN BALTIMORE

March 28th & 29th we performed "Dial 'P' for Pasties" at The Patterson to sell out audiences. This is the fourth version of the show and we keep adding new writing, tightening the dance numbers and just making the whole thing better. We want to do some touring and longer runs of this show this year- it went over amazingly well with our hometown crowd!

CIRCUS SCHOOL- WEEKS 29 & 30

I've been working on hula hooping one leg while in this move! It's really hard to take new photos of what we're working on since we're kind of just refining, rehearsing and working on transitions for moves we already have. We've been working hardest to have a new, fancier version of Kama Sutra ready for our trip to Seattle's Moisture Festival on April 1st-6th.

CIRCUS SCHOOL- WEEK 28

The whole Pro-Track program had a sleep over at the studio this week- we promptly made a fort with the fabric and stayed up late playing games and watching You Tube.

In other news- Monkey and I had some major break-thrus this week! We finally nailed some tricks we've spent a few weeks working on.

In the Risley department: first time log flips- flipping from back to front perpendicular to Monkey's feet. We also got a drop from foot to foot to front balance. And our pop to foot-to-foot from sitting was like 100%! In the trapeze department: Monkey can do an ankle drop while supporting all of my weight from sitting. In the acro department: I was able to pop Monkey up to a 2-high instead of having him climb up to my shoulders.

Accomplishments come in fits and spurts and then you have to figure out how to make them reliably performable. But this was a major week for us.