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Calypso is currently on tour in Peru with the Dreamtime Circus.
From March until June 15th, the circus will visit town and village, highland and jungle, the modern and ancient.
After fundraising for over a year, Dreamtime Circus, a non-profit 501c3 organization, will bring circus shows and workshops to disadvantaged children free of charge!
Keep up with Calypso's current adventure through her Blog!
ResumeLIVE SHOWSThe Digital Sense, Women on the Way,Original Multimedia Theater, Shotwell Studios, S.F. '10SpellCasting New Years Event, Producer, Emcee, Character, Magic, Garage Theater, S.F. '10SF Clown Cabaret, Clown and Magic, Climate Theater, S.F. 10N.Y.E Sea of Dreams, Clown and Magic, Concourse Exhibition Center 09The Fashionista Mafia, Partner Acrobatics, The Uptown, Oakland 09Women on the Way Festival Benefit, Multimedia, Character, Garage Theater, S.F. 09Dreamtime Rafflicious Cabaret, Solo Clown Dance, Magic, Accordion Apocalypse, S.F. 09The Spider Ball, Partner Acrobatics, The Bently Reserve, S.F. Halloween '09Tying the Knot, 1001 Fabulous Nights, Partner Acrobatics, Brava Theater, S.F. 09Childrens Show,Clowning and Magic, The Hilton, S.F. 09Digital Sense, Fringe Festival, Original Multimedia Theater, Garage Theater, S.F. 09Fire Conclave, Partner Acrobatics, Burning Man 09Dreamtime Corpus Cabaret, Produced and Emceed, Union Square, S.F. 09The Digital Sense, Creator and Performer, Garage Theater, S.F. 09Street Performance, Magic and Juggling, Portland, S.F. 09Oregon Country Faire, Character Stilt Walking , Oregon 09Mt. Shasta Summer Festival, Clown, Ring Master, Magic, Mt. Shasta 09Beyond Shadows, Dreamtime Circus, Circus Clown, Cell Space, The Oakland Metro S.F. 09School Tour, Clown, Clown Conservatory 08Secret Circus, Partner Acrobatics, Juggling, 07Pans Fire Beaches, Fire Acrobatics, Director, Choreography, '07Hobo Goblins Jug Band, Ukele, Washboard, Character,06-08Clown, Commedia, Storytelling, Celebrations Barn, Maine 06Cycles of Uprising, Clown, Music, Fire Acrobatics, 06Circo Mutante, Staff spinning, Fire Dance, Ensemble, 05A Journey Through the Senses, Fire Dance, Choreography, 04Solo Performance, Video, Interactive Instillation, 03-05San Francisco Fire Concla, Fire Dance, Choreograph, 03EDUCATIONClown Conservatory, S.F. Circus Center (08)Celebration Barn, Maine (06)UC Berkeley B.A. Art Practice (05)TRAININGClown and Improvisation Jeff Raz, Avner Eisenberg, William Hall, Dominique Jando, Keith JohnstoneMime Julie Goelle, Leticia Bartlett, Karen Montanaro, Lee FaulknerCircus Judy Finelli, Xiao Hong, Lui Yee, Mina LiccioneVoice Ava Maria, Louis ColianniADDITIONAL EXPERIENCEGarage Theater, S.F, Resident Artist (08-09)AcroSports, S.F, PreSchool Gymnastics Coach (09-10)SPECIALTIESCharacter, Improvisation, Partner Acrobatics, Ensemble
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LIVE SHOWS
The Digital Sense, Women on the Way,Original Multimedia Theater, Shotwell Studios, S.F. '10
SpellCasting New Years Event, Producer, Emcee, Character, Magic, Garage Theater, S.F. '10
SF Clown Cabaret, Clown and Magic, Climate Theater, S.F. 10
N.Y.E Sea of Dreams, Clown and Magic, Concourse Exhibition Center 09
The Fashionista Mafia, Partner Acrobatics, The Uptown, Oakland 09
Women on the Way Festival Benefit, Multimedia, Character, Garage Theater, S.F. 09
Dreamtime Rafflicious Cabaret, Solo Clown Dance, Magic, Accordion Apocalypse, S.F. 09
The Spider Ball, Partner Acrobatics, The Bently Reserve, S.F. Halloween '09
Tying the Knot, 1001 Fabulous Nights, Partner Acrobatics, Brava Theater, S.F. 09
Childrens Show,Clowning and Magic, The Hilton, S.F. 09
Digital Sense, Fringe Festival, Original Multimedia Theater, Garage Theater, S.F. 09
Fire Conclave, Partner Acrobatics, Burning Man 09
Dreamtime Corpus Cabaret, Produced and Emceed, Union Square, S.F. 09
The Digital Sense, Creator and Performer, Garage Theater, S.F. 09
Street Performance, Magic and Juggling, Portland, S.F. 09
Oregon Country Faire, Character Stilt Walking , Oregon 09
Mt. Shasta Summer Festival, Clown, Ring Master, Magic, Mt. Shasta 09
Beyond Shadows, Dreamtime Circus, Circus Clown, Cell Space, The Oakland Metro S.F. 09
School Tour, Clown, Clown Conservatory 08
Secret Circus, Partner Acrobatics, Juggling, 07
Pans Fire Beaches, Fire Acrobatics, Director, Choreography, '07
Hobo Goblins Jug Band, Ukele, Washboard, Character,06-08
Clown, Commedia, Storytelling, Celebrations Barn, Maine 06
Cycles of Uprising, Clown, Music, Fire Acrobatics, 06
Circo Mutante, Staff spinning, Fire Dance, Ensemble, 05
A Journey Through the Senses, Fire Dance, Choreography, 04
Solo Performance, Video, Interactive Instillation, 03-05
San Francisco Fire Concla, Fire Dance, Choreograph, 03
EDUCATION
Clown Conservatory, S.F. Circus Center (08)
Celebration Barn, Maine (06)
UC Berkeley B.A. Art Practice (05)
TRAINING
Clown and Improvisation Jeff Raz, Avner Eisenberg, William Hall, Dominique Jando, Keith Johnstone
Mime Julie Goelle, Leticia Bartlett, Karen Montanaro, Lee Faulkner
Circus Judy Finelli, Xiao Hong, Lui Yee, Mina Liccione
Voice Ava Maria, Louis Colianni
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Garage Theater, S.F, Resident Artist (08-09)
AcroSports, S.F, PreSchool Gymnastics Coach (09-10)
SPECIALTIES
Character, Improvisation, Partner Acrobatics, Ensemble
BioCalypso specializes in physical theater, including comedy, circus, avante garde, and multimedia performance. She is based out of San Francisco, CA. Her latest original work, an original multimedia theater piece called The Digital Sense, is a comedic autobiographical tale where she journeys in and out of a projected digital screen. This show was created during a yearlong artist in residence at The Garage Theater in 2009. Calypso also performs as a circus clown where she employs antics such as partner acrobatics, juggling and magic. Currently, Calypso is on tour with The Dreamtime Circus in Peru, performing and teaching workshops free of charge for disadvantaged children and communities. Calypso also flips and flies through the air in a partner acrobatic duo with Summer Bowie.In 1999 Calypso began her performance career in the underground art movement of the bay area, fire dancing at parties, clubs and on the street. Meanwhile, she attended classes in experimental performance art at UC Berkeley, where she earned a bachelor degree in Art Practice, with an emphasis in media-based performance. Since then, she has trained in clowning and acrobatics at the San Francisco Circus Center, where she graduated from the Clown Conservatory in 2008.Calypso has toured and performed with several circuses, bands, and fire ensembles nationally and internationally by bicycle, bio-diesel bus, airplane, and foot. She has collaborated with groups such as The Dreamtime Circus, Slinky Jinx, The Hobo Goblin Jug Band, Secret Circus, Lucid Dream Lounge, Circo Mutante, Pan’s Fire Conclave, the San Francisco Fire Conclave, The San Francisco Circus Center and Dealan-De. She teaches circus and physical theater workshops for children and adults. Calypso plans to continue to tour the world performing and leading workshops, and collaborating with circuses, artists, healers and visionaries to create magic.
Bio
Calypso specializes in physical theater, including comedy, circus, avante garde, and multimedia performance. She is based out of San Francisco, CA. Her latest original work, an original multimedia theater piece called The Digital Sense, is a comedic autobiographical tale where she journeys in and out of a projected digital screen. This show was created during a yearlong artist in residence at The Garage Theater in 2009. Calypso also performs as a circus clown where she employs antics such as partner acrobatics, juggling and magic. Currently, Calypso is on tour with The Dreamtime Circus in Peru, performing and teaching workshops free of charge for disadvantaged children and communities. Calypso also flips and flies through the air in a partner acrobatic duo with Summer Bowie.
In 1999 Calypso began her performance career in the underground art movement of the bay area, fire dancing at parties, clubs and on the street. Meanwhile, she attended classes in experimental performance art at UC Berkeley, where she earned a bachelor degree in Art Practice, with an emphasis in media-based performance. Since then, she has trained in clowning and acrobatics at the San Francisco Circus Center, where she graduated from the Clown Conservatory in 2008.
Calypso has toured and performed with several circuses, bands, and fire ensembles nationally and internationally by bicycle, bio-diesel bus, airplane, and foot. She has collaborated with groups such as The Dreamtime Circus, Slinky Jinx, The Hobo Goblin Jug Band, Secret Circus, Lucid Dream Lounge, Circo Mutante, Pan’s Fire Conclave, the San Francisco Fire Conclave, The San Francisco Circus Center and Dealan-De. She teaches circus and physical theater workshops for children and adults. Calypso plans to continue to tour the world performing and leading workshops, and collaborating with circuses, artists, healers and visionaries to create magic.
“The Digital Sense”
The Dreamtime Circus
Created and performed by Calypso
Where do you look to know who you are? In this riveting and unique multimedia show entitled “The Digital Sense,” creator and performer Calypso clowns and dances from being stardust in the cosmos to a child of the digital age, and from the live stage onto the projected screen. Influenced by her real-life experience of growing up in southern California with sitcom role-models and cartoon best friends, this show is the fulfillment of Calypso’s long hoped-for dream that the over-produced images on the screen would somehow talk back and relate to her personal moment. See Calypso be born, search of herself, play games with her digital twin, get caught in her own traps, meet characters along the way, and discover the power and beauty of magic. Created in part through a nine-month artist-in-residency at the Garage Theater in 2009, “The Digital Sense” calls attention to our culture’s stories of time and identity, and how the proliferation of the digital image is transforming our most intimate understanding of who we are. Calypso’s work examines and ignites our awareness of being alive, inspiring laughter and play in the face of adversity.
In the schools and streets of Lima, orphanages in Cuzco, and jungle villages accessible only by boat, a circus is coming to town! Thats right, the Dreamtime Circus sets sail on its 2nd international tour, this time bringing the magic of the circus to Peru where Dreamtime volunteers will put on free shows and circus workshops for communities throughout the country. Dreamtime will be collaborating with several nonprofit organizations, schools, and orphanages who have greeted news of the tour with enthusiasm and are eager to host the circus in their community.Founded in 2006, the Dreamtime Circus is a not-for-profit circus arts collective based in California. We are dedicated to providing free shows and performance art workshops to children and communities around the world, focusing our efforts on those who have lacked the opportunity to delight, learn, and express themselves through the magic of circus arts.
In the schools and streets of Lima, orphanages in Cuzco, and jungle villages accessible only by boat, a circus is coming to town! Thats right, the Dreamtime Circus sets sail on its 2nd international tour, this time bringing the magic of the circus to Peru where Dreamtime volunteers will put on free shows and circus workshops for communities throughout the country. Dreamtime will be collaborating with several nonprofit organizations, schools, and orphanages who have greeted news of the tour with enthusiasm and are eager to host the circus in their community.
Founded in 2006, the Dreamtime Circus is a not-for-profit circus arts collective based in California. We are dedicated to providing free shows and performance art workshops to children and communities around the world, focusing our efforts on those who have lacked the opportunity to delight, learn, and express themselves through the magic of circus arts.
Calendar
Dreamtime Circus Peruvian Tour 2010:
Mar. 4 - Mar. 23: Chincha
Mar 24 - Apr. 30: Cuzco and surrounding areas
May 1 - May 14: Lima
May 15 - May 23: Cajamarca
May 24 - June 13: Pulcallpa
June 14 - Aug 20: Ecuador and Brazil
"The Digital Sense"
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