I was only being a tech grunt for this one, and came in at the middle
of the event so I wasn't around for setup or the first run night.
Small images are linked to larger ones, as usual.
Kittehs |
This one really shows the rather odd shadow effect from having the whole wash from the back wall.. |
Positively the funniest act of the evening was four Frankenfurters, done to "I'm a Sweet Transvestite". Very high energy, impossible to capture not moving... |
A couple more ... and finally, a little pinkish sidelight? |
Here we can see the overall look with the cyc and the beige side of the new drapes. The evening wrapped up with some awards and everyone on stage ... |
(Really, night three of the Expo)
An amusing "swiss miss" sort of act included some tantalizing use of linked sausages... |
Miss Adventure aka Jenny the Juggler, a local professional who not only puts on a very smooth show, but here was doing it eight months pregnant. She had audience members toss her the soccer balls she was juggling... |
A smooth poi-spinning act, using ones shaped like wine bottles with a drunkenness theme to go with, ending passed out on the floor. |
One of several hoop acts |
Usually done with fire; she had to substitute feather fans for this venue. |
An entertaining bed of nails act. Once he was down on it he let himself be subjected to all kinds of abuse, including a flying leap off a chair onto his belly. |
He then got up, mostly unscathed, and then went down on his front to bake the other side in a similar fashion. |
Another hoop act, very smooth and flowing. |
A middle eastern theme: first, a sword dance... | ||
... and then she dug carefully into a basket, pulling out a live snake for the second part. |
Yet another hoop act, with the interesting variant of embedded blinkie LEDs which did some fun strobing effects over time. | |
All of the night's performers back to the stage for the wrapup. |
The evening was hardly over, however, as Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band took the stage for their second set ... |
... and added in their own variant of circus mayhem ... |
... including a straitjacket escape, ... |
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