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Some people are bad dancers because they don't know anything about their bodies. I am a bad dancer because I know too much about the wrong parts.
Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, composer, actor, and visual/ performance artist. His work has been produced at HERE Arts Center, Performance Studies International, Galapagos Art Space, and Dixon Place Theater. He has performed at cafes, blues clubs, churches, orgies, and opera houses; at The Guggenheim, PS122, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, and The Public Theater.
"This young up-and-comer is taking the stages of downtown Manhattan by storm. He has the enviable ability to transition, in a chameleon-like fashion, through a spectrum of performance personae. On any given night you might find him tricked out all goth-rock and mysterious or catch him in a high camp mood, strutting around in tight leopard print pants a diamante neck tie. Tonight he's a dead ringer for a young Johnny Depp, complete with black leather jacket.... His operatic baritone is impressive… as is his masterly fusion of Classical, Punk, Cabaret, and the Blues…†-- Scenedowntown.com
"With his zany imagination and distinctive bass-baritone voice, Joseph Keckler has been generating buzz throughout the gooey honeycomb of the downtown performance art cabaret scene"
-- Gothamist