Road to Palooza

...another great show directed by Stefan Haves, Comic Act Designer with Cirque du Soleil, this time at the Pasadena Playhouse.  It was a kind of modern vaudeville variety show, featuring artists who have starred in Cirque du Soleil shows around the world, mixed with local comics, magicians, jugglers, acrobats and musicians.  I loved trying to catch the action by sketching non-stop...

 Street performers greeted us in the
courtyard of the theater...

My favorite act was this very surreal, giant puppet-clown with impossibly long arms balancing his red balloon ball...on either side here, a troupe of "Stomp" style performers with percussive washing machines...

 A tap dancer extraordinaire, and broom-juggling "janitor"...

This guy was billed as the "world's greatest hula hoop artist", and I don't doubt it...

Atomic Holiday LIftoff

...was a great show I saw recently...

Cirque du Soleil Comic Act Designer

and clown coordinator Stefan Haves once again
put on a delightful show here in Los Angeles,
this time at Club Fais Do-Do.  "Atomic Holiday
Liftoff" was a cabaret performance featuring
jugglers, aerialists, clowns, a sword swallower,
contortionist and fabulous tap dancer with a
live band and singers, and dancing "Mayans"
in a send-up of "end of the world" frenzy...
fun trying to keep up with the performers
and sketching madly in low light!