Aste

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...I am not one of those people who grew-up-to-be something sraight forwards and easily explainable....so to get an idea of what I get up to - keep reading!
For the last while I have been designing the set and costume for a touring contemporary circus production in Norway for the company Cirkus Xanti...
(all photos by Kate Friend, "Kate" in my top friends)

I recently put together THE APOCALYPSE GAMESHOW (a co-creation with Tom Baker from the cult band Fantasmagoria). A live performance event on the format of a gameshow, about the end of the world! we are currently booked for Glastonbury festival this year as a nightly event on the Mutoid Pirateship stage in the Trashcity area

After a series of scratch performances last autumn/winter we did some dates at The Pleasance Theatre, London in Jan. We would like to take this show far and wide this summer. If you have a venue or festival and like the sound of it -get in touch!
Photo: Kate FriendWork has also recently comenced on "The Getaway" a new aerial act on a costum buildt, upsidedown bisycle...pictures can be found in my slideshow
Previous projects of mine include:
Corruption Cabaret (as part of performance group Spacecraft), a subterranean amphy-theatre running 24 hour round-the-clock cabaret, on a game-show-of-doom format (Filmed by BBC in their coverage of Glastonbury Festival 1999)
a series of theatrical, public exectutions.
a version of Jean Genets play "the Balcony" for out-door, night-time festival environments, set in a giant wardrobe and using super8 projection,
a macabre canibal-cabaret (Spacecraft) featuring taxidermy puppetry,
a aerial performance absed on Antonin Artaud's "A Spurt of Blood" featuring original aerial rigging under the guidance of notorious performance artist Franko B,
a series of political satires produced for Dublin Fringe Festival (Spacecraft)...
untold amounts of shorter cabaret acts..streeet theatre, intervetions and one-off events.
Recent adventures include a series of short collaborative performances with some of my lovely talented friends.
This includes:
The Naughtical girl show:
Performed by myself and Ruth-"Ruby Blues" (AKA Tutti Frutti of CanBootyCan), this is an aerial rope and trapeze act which includes a repertoire of sea-shanties accompanied on accordion.
Masochism tango:
a doubles trapeze act to Tom Lehrers "the Masochism tango". Performed partly as doubles trapeze, partly on separate trapezes...it involves half-drag, tango with stage-fighting, and whip-cracking. Performed with Joe Perryman.
Zombie striptease:
10 minutes, comedy, grotesque strip-act with part-prosthetic costumes. Two zombie strippers peeling their skin of seductively -escalating to theatrical bitch-fight hair-ripping, pretend gutting -all with fake blood and prosthetic hair/head pieces (with Rachel Curry)
this particular act also comprises part of the stage-show for voodoo-swamp-blues outfit "Hooligan Night" -Zombie, go-go, bitch-fight -striptease to the rockin' tunes of Ruby Blues and Nick Diezel -you cant beat it!