DCTribal Cafe

EVENT: DCTribal Cafe
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 25
doors open a 6pm
LOCATION: Asylum
2471 18th STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20009
(202) 319.9353
COST: $10
DETAILS: DCTribal Cafe is a monthly event featuring great food, music and performances by local & regional tribal & experimental belly dance artists! DCTribal Cafe is hosted by DC's premier Tribal Fusion Belly Dance company ROMKA, and sponsored by DCTribal, a collective of dancers dedicated to supporting tribal dance in the DC Area. DCTribal Cafe is held the last sunday of every month at Asylum Bar & Lounge, 2471 18th Street, NW in the heart of Adams Morgan. Check it out!

Tiraz Dance Network "Alternative Hafla"

EVENT: Tiraz Dance Network "Alternative Hafla"
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:30 PM
LOCATION: McLean Community Center
1234 Ingleside Ave
McLean VA 22101
COST: Tickets $5/person **MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE** No tickets will be sold at the door.
DETAILS:

Event will feature innovative and experimental performances including Tribal Fusion and American Tribal, and fusions of Middle Eastern/belly dance movements/ music with other genres of dance and music. McLean Community Center. Show time 3:30pm. Tickets $5/person **MUST BE PURCHASED IN
ADVANCE** No tickets will be sold at the door.

visit the website to purchase tickets!

Bread and Puppet Theater FREE SHOW

EVENT:
DATE & TIME: Oct 21-22
LOCATION: St. Stephen’s Church ( 1525 Newton St NW ; Corner of 16th and Newton )
Washington DC
COST: FREE!
DETAILS: The World-Famous Bread and Puppet Theater Will Perform in DC:

"To live in America and never see the Bread and Puppet Theater perform is like living in Egypt and never seeing the pyramids." (Christian Science Monitor)

"The Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America ’s conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”" (NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu)

Event Details:

Bread and Puppet Theater

At St. Stephen’s Church ( 1525 Newton St NW ; Corner of 16th and Newton )

Tuesday, Oct 2120at 8pm: “The Sourdough Philosophy Circus”

Wednesday, Oct 22 at 8pm: “Storm Office: A Storm Poem with Implementation Machine”

FREE ADMISSION

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Janelle Treibitz

October 3, 2008 646-734-6705 cell; janelleboal@aol.com

WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 3, 2008) – Giant puppets, dancing zebras, city bred cows and sour stilters will transform St. Stephen’s Church into a big-top circus of political proportions when the world-famous Bread and Puppet Theater returns to DC for two performances Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21-22. The performance is free and open to the public.

Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest activist street theater companies in the country, and this year they will perform two different shows to DC audiences:

On Tuesday evening at 8pm Bread and Puppet will perform the newest of their famous (and family-friendly) puppet circuses. The "Sourdough Philosophy Circus" is a show about the need for human fermentation. In their own words: “Human fermentation concerns those parts of the human body that are not governed by the government, like the guts and the gutsy par ts of the brain. This is also applies to zebras and city bred cows, dancing bears and independent donkeys. The show is run by a bunch of cooks, specialists in cooking the various stews and pancakes of our everyday first world exist ence. Additional commentary is provided by the Rotten Idea Theater Company. Music is by the Sourdough Philosophy Brass Band and a quartet of sheep.”

On Wednesday evening at 8pm, Bread and Puppet will perform "Storm Office: A Storm Poem with Implementation Machine". two-curtain box stage, using newspaper comments on recent storms and their relationship to politics. This show speaks with pictures instead of words. In Storm Office, Bread and Puppet relies “on a big collection of masks and puppets, representing all archetypal traits of the ancient and contemporary worlds. In this [show] masked characters are joined by an airplane, a typewriter, a deer, a big fist and...a sailboat called: We Are All in The Same Boat, which will take the audience on a journey through the streets.” Storm Office is a puppet and mask show, performed in and around a

Both shows will include an opportunity to savor Schumann’s famous sourdough rye bread, laden with garlic aioli, while both theater- and circus-goers alike will enjoy the opportunity to purchase the company’s legendary “cheap art.”

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Bread and Puppet History:

The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self- supporting theater companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietn am War protests in New York City, to the pageantry of its annual event, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, in Glover, Vermont, which ran for over 25 years. The Domestic Resurrection regularly attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990’s.

Dubbed a "living national treasure" by The New York Times, Bread and Puppet Theater, under the direction of German-born sculptor Peter Schumann, has toured internationally for more than 35 years. The Vermont-based troupe performs on urgent social, political, and environmental issues. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "To live in America and never see the Bread and Puppet Theater perform is like living in Egypt and never seeing the pyramids."

Author and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised “the genius of P eter Schumann, the prodigious puppet-God,” writing that “the Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America ’s conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”

Schumann founded Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 in New York City . Hand-puppet shows for children and rod-puppet shows for the street were produced from early experiments. Later, complex stylized compositions with masked performers, over-life-sized effigies, improvised music and narration astounded adult audiences. The company has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy , Poland , France , Venezuela , and South Korea . Awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam, two off-Broadway Obie Awards, the Puppeteers of America President's Award, a Guggenheim Award, the Vermont Governor's Award, and numerous trophies from local small-town parades.

The company currently tours new and old productions, on the American continent and abroad, and sells Bread & Puppet Press posters and publications. The traveling puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company to extensive outdoor pageants that require the participation=2 0of many volunteers. Apprentices come to the farm in the summer to work with Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Company, joining Bread and Puppet old-timers and community members in presenting large-scale spectacles on the Bread and Puppet farm in Glover every Sunday in July and August.

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Local Steampunk band - Free listening party!

EVENT:Cassettes Listening Party
DATE & TIME:
LOCATION: Galaxy Hut
COST: FREE!
DETAILS: I know I don't ordinarily post bands, but this group is too much fun not to share. They play an amazing variety of instruments and music. there is bound to be something for everyone. plus, it's free. you can't beat it.

Local "steam-punk" band the Cassettes unveils its latest melange of old-timey instruments and modern songwriting at a Galaxy Hut listening party. They'll play their new album -- how else? -- on cassette.

Poi Workshop

EVENT: Poi Workshop
DATE & TIME: Thursday at 8 PM
LOCATION: Contradiction Dance at
7014 Westmoreland Ave
Takoma Park, MD
COST: $10 if you reserve a spot in advance either through the studio (contradictiondance@mac.com) or Dance Afire (valloup@gmail.com) and $15 for drop-in.
DETAILS: (text from the email)
If any of you have come to the spin jams on Tuesdays at Lunar Larry's in the past few months, you may have gotten an impromptu poi lesson from Drex.
Now he's doing a full workshop through Dance Afire to teach beginners the basics of poi at Contradiction Dance in Takoma Park.

If you've seen people spin poi and would like to learn, or have picked up a few basic tricks and would like to expand your knowledge, come out to Contradiction Dance at 7014 Westmoreland Ave this Thursday at 8 PM.

This is a great space with hardwood floors and full-length mirrors -- practicing in front of mirrors is essential for picking up clean technique and there are few places in the country where poi classes can be had in such an environment. The class is $10 if you reserve a spot in advance either through the studio (contradictiondance@mac.com) or Dance Afire (valloup@gmail.com) and $15 for drop-in.

Drex will be teaching techniques that'll help you get basic tricks down and give you tools to start moving into more intermediate poi spinning. Keep watching this list for fire safety workshops and a 6-week intermediate poi class starting in November.

Live Humans! in DC

EVENT: Live Humans in DC
DATE & TIME: Tuesday Oct. 14
LOCATION: Palace of Wonders
COST: FREE!
DETAILS:
Live Humans is Washington DC's only open mic variety show. and as can be expected, it can be found at the Palace of Wonders.

This week they are featuring the magic and juggling of Chris McCauley and Laura Ernst.

It's free folks, so come on out and feel free to join in the fun! and if you are interested in trying out a new act, bring it out!

link for more info - Palace of Wonders' website

or you can visit their myspace page.

Bizzaro Cheeky Monkeys!

EVENT:The Cheeky Monkey Sideshow Bizarro Show!
DATE & TIME: Friday, October 10th 10pm
LOCATION:Palace of Wonders

1210 H St., NE

Washington, DC

COST:$10 in costume

$12 without costume

DETAILS:

Where anything could happen.

Friday, October 10th, we're gonna mix things up, and no one knows what acts you will see, not even us--the Cheeky Monkeys are going to randomly draw acts out of hat, and whatever they pick, they have to perform!

Mab Just Mab does magic? Swami Yomahmi, mistress of the flame? Burlesque by Mr. Eon? Who knows?

But wait, there's more! We're also having a COSTUME CONTEST!

Come dressed in your best bizarr-ary and get $2 off your admission. Plus, the top three costumes will win FUN AND VALUABLE PRIZES!

This is the one you don't wanna miss! Costumes! Comedy! Calamity(?)

And a surprise guest you have to see to believe. . .

Palace of Wonders

1210 H St., NE

Washington, DC

October 10th
Show starts at 10pm

$10 in costume

$12 without costume

palaceofwonders.com

cheekymonkeysideshow.com

Vixen Variety

EVENT: Vixen Variety
DATE & TIME: Thursday October 9, 2008
LOCATION: The Palace of Wonders
1210 H ST. NE Washington DC 20002
COST: $10
DETAILS:
Vixen Variety is an exciting new all female variety show!
More then just a feast for the eyes this show will knock your socks off!
These clever, sly and scandalous women will woo you with their willfulness and wiles!
You don't want to miss the fun as these foxy females flaunt their finesse and show off their skills in a hodgepodge of heroines!
A new medley of talent each month!
So come one, come all to the foxy & fabulous Vixen Variety Show!

THIS MONTH! Mab (me) will be bringing out her new comedy fire eating routine! All Funny! All the Time! Even while on FIRE!