Run-time (hh:mm:ss): 00:25:41
Language: English
Synopsis: Interview with performance artist Jennifer Miller, director of New York's troupe Circus Amok (www.circusamok.org), conducted
by Mila Aponte-González for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (www.hemisphericinstitute.org). In this
interview, Miller talks about the origins, adventures and exploits of Circus Amok, commenting on the troupe's training, the
politics and aesthetics of street performance, their experiences as political and queer performers in and for New York City
communities, some recurrent topics in their work, and how their aesthetic influences and creative methods juggle between performance
and politics in a collaborative atmosphere. Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to
provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City. Directed and founded
by Miller, the group has been together since 1989 bringing its funny, queer, caustic and sexy, political one-ring spectacles
to diverse neighborhoods throughout the city. Over the years the traditional circus skills - tight rope walking, juggling,
acrobatics, stilt walking, clowning - have been combined with experimental dance, lifesize puppetry, music old and new, and
gender-bending performance art and improvisational techniques, creating new meanings for circus while continuing to entertain
the crowds of all ages throughout the city streets, gardens, parks, and playgrounds, inviting the audience to join them in
envisioning a more empowered life of community interaction while enjoying a queer celebratory spectacle.
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New York, NY 10003
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Email: hemi@nyu.edu
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