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About Me

Our current scheme involves getting a venue in Melbourne, Australia where Tara can perform her brand-new solo sometime between June 23 and June 30. Can you assist us in any way?!We make dances. We make performances we like to call dances. We make jokes. We constantly try to one-up ourselves.
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The Mad King Himself says:
I am the emblem of dances made. I am the name, I am the man. It is me you want to know. I am three in one like the Catholic God; I am a three-fer like the deal your Jewish grandmother got. I am the maid, the mother and the crone; I am me, myself, and I.
I have tannish brown curly hair (color from Tara "King-Size" King, texture from Theresa "Fun-Size" Madaus), tan skin (????) and very flexible hips (Monica "Clever Thomas" Thomas). I ride a unicorn. I ride my unicorn in the buff. I dream of ninjas disguised as unicorns.

I can be reached madkingthomas at gmail dot com. Send me my mythologies, send me my portraits, send me your fealty. I will feast on it all.

My Interests

Disclaimer: We don't all like the same things, somehow. Monica, for example, doesn't like robots. Nobody can explain it: it is inexplicable.

Choreography, eating, knitting, robots, hegemony, history, anthropology, English, writing, photography, drinking, cat sitting.

I'd like to meet:

People who live in Melbourne, Australia, and want to help us perform there, other choreographers, people who want to see our dances, people who want to help us move our furniture on and off stage, people who want to tell us what they think about dance, people who want to take pictures of us, people who want to eat soup with us.

Music:

Modest Mouse, ABBA, Queen, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bonnie Tyler, Scissor Sisters, Janis Joplin, Madonna, pretty much every song ever written by anyone, ever.

Movies:

Kung Fu vs. Yoga, Animals are Beautiful People, Fight Club

Television:

Mostly we go to dance shows: 9'x22', Momentum Series, New Works at the Red Eye, Naked Stages, Kinetic Kitchen, the Fringe Festival, and everything else that happens.

Books:

A Short History of a Small Place, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

See our list of influences, man.

My Blog

Bicycles + Bikinis = Ridiculous Fun

Hot diggity! Once again, Mad King Thomas forgoes all sense of modesty or dignity and plunges head-long into foolishness in order to delight. In other words, with the cellulite on our butt cheeks hangi...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:18:00 PST

capture!rama

There are very few universal truths in this world. One of them is that pretty much anything that ends with "rama" is full of awesome-sauce. This month's capture!rama is no exception! It will be full o...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:42:00 PST

hearts galore

we couldn't resist.... so after rehearsal tonight, we took a slew of heart-filled pictures, some of which we are even ballsy enough to share with you. our poor battered hearts have been through so muc...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:35:00 PST

Queertopia has our hearts

Our big red cardboard hearts, at least. This year during PRIDE we're a part of the Queertopia Cabaret at Intermedia Arts June 21, 22, and 23. It's going to be great! Thursday, Friday and Saturday nig...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:34:00 PST

capture!rama

Once again, Emily Johnson has captured (ha ha ha) our hearts by a) being brilliant and b) asking us to do stuff with her. Namely, to be in the next capture! that she and James (who occupies no s...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:26:00 PST

The Mad King strikes again! on Tuesday

In our usual flurry of panicked energy and manic rehearsal, we're doing another dance! This time we're at the Rogue Buddha, an art gallery up in Northeast as part of Windfarm. And we're dancing with a...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:54:00 PST

How could I fail to mention!?

Kids! How could I forget to mention?!?! The members of Mad King Thomas are going to be dancing this Wednesday in the famed and fabulous work of Ariel Dumas, fellow Macalester grad and fount of hilari...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:10:00 PST

Do you always come (when you're fingered?) (Because then can we finger you to our next show?)

Thanks to all you lovely lovers (and non-lovers alike) who came out to see our little lovesick dance and cardboard-heart extravaganza in Pam's show. It's official: people love to hate love. People wer...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:36:00 PST

This review is too amazing not to share.

Hey kids--Phillip Low (Fringe blogger and nice guy extraordinaire) wrote a review of the 9x22 we were in, and had this to say about our work:This is the second time I've seen the latest piece they're ...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:56:00 PST

Awesome people, awesome stuff

Gosh gee golly! We did our 9x22 and Monica didn't vomit and Tara didn't break anything (well, except some little plastic army men) and Theresa didn't fuck up her lines! Yea! It went pretty effing well...
Posted by Mad King Thomas on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:32:00 PST