Circus Amok Is Coming to Town!
September Performances
*CITIZEN*SHIP*: AN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS FANTASIA IN 10
SHORT ACTS
1st – Riverside Park, Manhattan (6pm)
2nd – Sunset Park, Brooklyn (4pm)
3rd – T.B.A.
4th – Coney Island, Brooklyn (2pm & 5pm)
7th – Union Square, Manhattan (1pm & 4pm)
8th – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan (6pm)
9th – Prospect Park, Brooklyn (1pm & 4pm)
10th – Red Hook, Brooklyn (4pm)
14th – Columbus Park, Manhattan (1pm & 5pm)
15th – Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn (5pm)
16th – Socrates Sculpture Garden, Long Island City
(1pm)
17th – Tompkins Square Park, East Village (1pm & 4pm)
20th – Battery Park, Manhattan (1pm & 4pm)
21st – Rufus King Park, Queens (5pm)
22nd – St. Mary's Park, Bronx (5pm)
24th – Washington Square Park, Manhattan (1pm & 4pm)
for updates and more details: www.circusamok.org
About the Circus
Lovers and losers, seekers and cynics, doers of great
deeds and couch potatoes alike, as you bicker and
bargain on the slippery surface of capitalism, as you
bemoan the sorry state of welfare gone workfare gone
warfare, as you battle the bladderbrain rogues of the
social imagination, fling yourselves into the
outstanding, uplifting, underpaid arms of our
one-ringing ever-swinging circus RUN amok!!
WHO WE ARE
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. The group has been
together since 1989 bringing its funny, queer, caustic
and sexy, political one-ring spectacles to diverse
neighborhoods from East New York to the East Village.
The company is comprised of seven ring-performers, a 7
member live band, 3-roustabouts, and a
trucker/technician extraordinaire. The performers in
the ring are trained in traditional circus skills -
tight rope walking, juggling, acrobatics, stilt
walking, clowning - as well as experimental dance,
theater, and gender-bending performance art and
improvisational techniques. Over the years the
traditional circus techniques have been combined with
dance, lifesize puppetry, music old and new, and
dramatic monologues creating new meanings for circus
while continuing to entertain the crowds of all ages
throughout the city streets, gardens, parks, and
playgrounds.
Circus Amok performances prove that diverse audiences
can join us in envisioning a more empowered life of
community interaction while enjoying a queer
celebratory spectacle. But most of all, Circus Amok
brings a seventeen-act-in-59-minutes joyful
extravaganza of acrobatic artistry, satiric skill, and
good old-fashioned circus fun free to neighborhoods
throughout New York City.
Pleasure pranksters and apocalypse seekers alike,
close your eyes, hold on tight, 'cause the Quality of
your Life is about to take a remarkable turn, hovering
on the edge reason, dissolving at the tips of your
fingers. It's Amazing! It's Out-a-Sight! It's AMOK!!!!
CIRCUS CIRCUS HELP HELP!!!!
***CIRCUS AMOK NEEDS YOU!***
We are seeking volunteers to help us get our new show
on the road!
*CITIZEN*SHIP*: AN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS FANTASIA IN 10
SHORT ACTS
We need volunteers at all of our FREE shows outside in
the city parks to help us set up, strike our set,
handle our crowds and entice onlookers. Volunteers are
needed at each show 3 HOURS BEFORE SHOW TIME and for 2
HOURS AFTER SHOW TIME.
Check our schedule, click on your desired performance
then click Volunteer to sign up!
OR send an email to Cynthia.greenberg@yahoo.com, or
call 917-853-6965. Be sure to include your name, phone
#, email address, and info about which show dates you
can help. We will call all show-day volunteers to
confirm and share directions, weather back-up plans,
etc.
SEE YOU AT THE CIRCUS!
