Kinetic 4: An All Night Festival at the Pacific Science Center

Kinetic 4: An All Night Festival at the Pacific Science Center
“Some things cry out to be reborn…”
presented by Infinite Connections in association with The 4 Horsemen Productions
April 3rd 2010
Festival Presenters: Uniting Souls, IOSIS Art Party, Chillosophy, and the Space virgins
SEATTLE, Wash, - (December 8th, 2009)- Kinetic 4: Some things, when created, live and die in a moment of time and are destined never to be repeated, some things cry out to be reborn. This spring, under the moon cast shadows of the Space Needle, Infinite Connections will rise once again, and together with old and new friends alike, will present the next exciting phase of the legendary Magnetic/Kinetic series - A One Night Festival at the Pacific Science Center.
It is an unusual location for the triumphant return of the 7th in a series of festivals that covers four sonic playgrounds of innovative and underground art, lights, venders, bars in the kiddie area, and music. From progressive psytrance, to house, to chill, to dirty electro all gathered under one roof alongside the butterflies, animals, insects, dinosaurs and you.
April 3, 2010 - Kinetic 4 at the Pacific Science Center
Resist the urge to stay home... go play inside...

Kinetic will be appearing at Pacific Science Center
(200 2nd Ave N. Seattle, WA 98109) on April 3, 2010, 9pm-4am.
18+/21+ to drink
Tickets on sale now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91858
Ticket Info:
• General Admission Presale: $21-$25
• $30 till Capacity
• VIP: $50
Info Line: 206-686-4622; Details at http://www.infiniteconnections.org

Sponsors:
Interested in having your logo seen by THOUSANDS of people? Kinetic 4 is looking for sponsors! We have a variety of sponsorship and in-kind donation packages available and would love to speak with you. Contact Katie Meyer,Katie@infiniteconnections.org for more information about Sponsorship Opportunities.
Vendors:
Want to sell your stuff at Kinetic 4? E-mail our vendor coordinator Jen Parraz to find out more information, jen@infiniteconnections.org

Infinite Connections® is a multifaceted company specializing in Event Production and Artist Booking with the goal of connecting people to new experiences through art and music. Infinite Connections brings you Breaks & Freaks, IOSIS Art Party, Zen Circus, Shringar and Body Systems Dark Art Party. http://www.infiniteconnections.org
The 4 Horsemen® is a Not-For-Profit 501c3 production company that funds the Foundation for the Education of Professional Performers, dedicated to producing experimental and original theatrical/nightlife and entertainment through live performance and music, as well as a booking agency (PURE Cirkus) for local performance talent, and an source for educational programming for performing artists. Based in Seattle, The 4 Horsemen has created over 300 shows across the world for public, private and corporate events. http://www.the4horsemen.org

All New Show: SST/PURE CIRKUS: VERSUS

SST/PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW, an explosive theatrical experience, is a fusion of traveling freak show, burlesque, pyrotechnic theatre, and combative cabaret. This controversial, hysterical, and extraordinary production features the best Seattle has to offer in underground theater.
SST (Super Sonic Theatre) and PURE Cirkus takes a destructively humorous approach to theater, exploring the full range of human abnormalities, feats of strength, death defying stage combat choreography, and scintillating beauties.
The production will feature amazing performers such as Cannibal Jack, Jenny Penny, Dr Sirreal, Jannabalecter, Noel “The Freak” Austin, Julia Ghoulia, Butterhorn, Palomino Escobar, and introducing our newest star and Director Deevious Silvertongue from SST as well as other Special Guests from SST.
SST/PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW will be appearing at the Nuemos, 925 E Pike St
Seattle, WA 98122-3816 on Jan 22nd, 2010.

Lots of things...

Its been a hell of a few weeks..

Came up with the name for our educational programming, the Foundation for the Education of Professional Performers..www.the4horsemen.org/_t4h/education.php

Booked a few more dates for the SIN ON HEELS Tour.. and redesigned the website: www.lecabaretnoir.com and created some kick ass posters for it.


Got the Ticket link up for the New Hellfire show.. which is going to be amazing..

Wow i am a whore when it comes to marketing

Seattle Weekly Recommends us This Friday!

The Seattle Weekly Recommends us for Friday:

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
FRIDAY 11/6

Stage/Burlesque: Whetting Your Appetite

Forget dinner and a movie. The Blue Moon Cabaret puts ordinary date nights to shame. Hosted by Miss Indigo Blue, this burlesque show (with a four-course meal) features a rotating cast of popular performers, including Paula the Swedish Housewife, The Shanghai Pearl, and Inga Ingénue. Admittedly, it's pricey. But it's also three hours of solid entertainment set in the swanky Pampas Room. Each performer takes the stage individually several times during the evening to flirt and flaunt her assets through provocative and sometimes surprisingly humorous dance routines. And this reporter speaks from firsthand experience when she says there's no better way to win over your man than with an evening filled with nearly nude women and filet mignon. El Gaucho, 2505 First Ave., 728-1337, elgaucho.com. $100–$225 (21 and over). 7:30 p.m. (Repeats Nov. 20.) ERIKA HOBART

El Gaucho Stranger Write up

Stranger Write up:

RESTAURANTS

Bar Exam
Pasties at Pampas: Burlesque at Seattle's Poshest Cabaret
by BETHANY JEAN CLEMENT

Pampas Room
90 Wall St
Seattle 98121
(206) 728-1337
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El Gaucho
2505 First Ave
Seattle 98121
(206) 728-1337
Mon-Sat 5 pm-1 am; Sun 5-11 pm


The posh Pampas Room—pronounced "pamp-as," not "pompous"—is the lounge adjunct of Belltown steak house El Gaucho. Those entering from Wall Street descend a long, carpeted stairway directly into the lap of luxury, where the bar curves off into infinity in the soothing dim. (The stairs are precipitous, but the distinct impression is that should you fall, you'd be cushioned by big wads of unseen money.) The room itself only nods to art-deco swank, but it feels as rich as the clientele. Jacketed waitstaff glide about anticipating desires, and there's a thrum of anticipation: It's opening night of the Blue Moon Cabaret, bringing burlesque to Pampas Room for the very first time.

How many people here are burlesque virgins? Hostess Miss Indigo Blue wants to know at the start of the show. She calls everyone "darlings," and after a little teasing and coaxing (her specialty), the answer is a surprisingly resounding cheer. Apparently this echelon of Seattle society has been waiting for the likes of El Gaucho to give burlesque its imprimatur; now they are here with bells on to see the Blue Moon Cabaret take it (almost) all off. With the show come various amuse-bouches, beet salad with bleu d'Auvergne, El Gaucho's famed filet (or, if you must, chicken or salmon), and a trio of desserts. For the amusement of mouth, eyes, and ears, the nearly sold-out house has paid $100 to $225 per person (the latter persons getting their posteriors front-row table seating and their interiors Veuve Clicquot).

Is it worth it? If you're asking the question, you're in the wrong place (though the dinner alone may be priced from El Gaucho's menu at approximately $75). The silver-screen-style beauty in the feathered white pillbox hat and her older gentleman friend seem to be enjoying themselves enormously from the get-go, and as the wine and cocktails flow, everybody gets in the mood. Onstage, performers plumb burlesque's classic era, peeling their couture-level costumes (by the likes of It's Mark Mitchell and Danial Hellman) away with all due lack of haste. The smiling Shanghai Pearl explores some old-fashioned "orientalism" with the help of an abacus; dainty Inga Ingenue dances with two pink-feathered fans, a couple handfuls of spangles, and nothing else; Ginger, the toast of Paris (looking suspiciously like local burlesque star the Swedish Housewife), demonstrates the improper way to pour Veuve. But it's the aptly named Alotta Boutté, all the way from San Francisco, who works the room, singing "Ain't Misbehavin'" and stealing the show.

The Blue Moon Cabaret alternates with the Dark Side of the Moon Burlesque most Fridays through December, and future lineups for both shows include male performers. If this is objectification, it'll be going at least two ways, darlings.

Pampas Room, 90 Wall St, 728-1337

Our Anniversary

Nov 25th: Heavens Seattle: "SST/PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW"

With its amazing adult circus and burlesque performances, The 4 Horsemen celebrate thier 4 year anniversary at Club Heaven (172 South Washington Seattle, WA 98104) with the release of thier new show The PURE Cirkus Roadshow, sponsored by the Seattle Sinner Magazine.
Get Tickets at(http://www.the4horsemen.org/purecirkusroadshow/purecirkusroadshows.php)



We are really excited about our anniversary show this month! Come out and say hello.. tickets are going fast!

Its been 4 long amazing years and we are so pleased to still be doing this. We are getting bigger and better shows each year.

Thank you for all your support!

Seattle PI article on our El Gaucho Show:

Seattle PI article on our El Gaucho Show:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/411560_burlesque27.html

There's a new feast at El Gaucho -- for your eyes
Blue Moon Cabaret brings burlesque to high-class Seattle steakhouse

By MONICA GUZMAN
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF


Christopher Nelson Photography
The Shanghai Pearl, wearing Danial Hellman designs, performs during Blue Moon Cabaret at El Gaucho's Pampas Room.
On a recent Friday evening, not all diners at El Gaucho had to wait for the end of their meal to get their dessert.



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"I would take a deeper breath," Miss Indigo Blue crooned in her corset to a blushing crowd. "But I can't."

The big-eyed, big-wigged dame is one of the city's queens of burlesque, a brand of theatrical entertainment that combines fishnets, sequins and -- gasp! -- pasties in a dolled-up striptease that makes jaws drop as low as the performers' lace panties.

And on Oct. 16, El Gaucho, a Belltown purveyor of a $62 porterhouse and $280 Dom Perignon, became the seductive style's newest, most elegant Seattle host.

"It was scary at first. I was saying to myself: 'Oh God. Don't let this be a disaster,'" said general manager Cooper Mills, who signed Blue and a set of sultry performers for a six-show trial run in the restaurant's downstairs lounge this fall. "Then they did the show. I thought, this is definitely us."

Burlesque rose to popularity in the 1930s, hit its peak in the late '50s and is now in the midst of a nationwide revival that local performers swear is making Seattle swoon.

With shows filling up venues like the Triple Door, the Can-Can, the Pink Door and the Rendezvous, it was perhaps only a matter of time before a high-end restaurant considered the economy and gave it a go.

"The more I've been getting involved with this, the more I realize it's kind of all over," Mills said.

Opening night attendees watched three women unravel three times each to the taste of a four-course meal that included lobster medallions, braised leeks and chocolate ganache. With Blue as the emcee, Inga Ingenue, the Swedish Housewife and the Shanghai Pearl put on a naughty show for so proper a plate.

But while the recession never put El Gaucho in crisis and business has picked up in the last few months, Mills saw more people bring their own wine bottles and wanted to offer something truly different.

"We need to start adding stuff -- create not just activity, but life again," he said. "We're not necessarily reinventing ourselves, but doing something you won't see anywhere else."

The 80 or so people in the dark, velvety lounge -- known as the Pampas Room -- were older than your typical burlesque audience. And dressier. Tickets for tables by the stage sold for $225. The cheapest seats in the house went for $100 -- at the bar.

The audience was also -- despite Blue's start-of-show call to yell "semi-inappropriate comments" at the stage -- relatively tame.

Longtime burlesque fan Paul Philion noticed, and hooted anyway.

"It's the experience of powerful women," he said. "They're confident. Vulnerable, but strong. And I find that alluring."

Certainly there was something arresting in the way Inga Ingenue flashed bits of her body in a fan of lush, pink feathers. The Shanghai Pearl bit off her gloves finger by finger and the Swedish Housewife (as character Ginger!) doused her creamy skin in champagne. Near the back of the lounge, a gray-haired woman watched, rocking to the beat in her seat.

And the Pampas Room, which had recently only seen private parties, got a little hot.

"I've been lusting for that space," Blue said the day before the show. The room is classic, decadent and intimate, and Blue and co-producer Xavier Frost formed a show to match: more uptown, more artful, with almost academic references to early mistresses of the form.

The result was enough to make audience member and fellow burlesque queen Lily Verlaine gush about the acts, the venue and where the style appears to be headed after its fine-dining debut -- up.

"I haven't been this excited about a burlesque show in a long time," she said.

More burlesque shows at El Gaucho are scheduled for Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 20, Dec. 4 and Dec. 18. More info is here.

SST/PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW PROMO

El Gaucho and Met Theater all in 1 night

Last night was amazing!

We got up early and sent Part of Hellfire and Le Cabaret Noir out to Spokane.. I had to stay back in seattle for the opening night of The Blue Moon Cabaret at El Gaucho so we sent Talbot (Head of Operations) to run the show in Spokane.

El Gaucho went far beyond what i had hoped for. The audience loved the show and the Press was there from the Seattle Weekly, The PI, The Stranger and the D-list. The Show ended at around 10:30pm and just as I was about to call and check on the Spokane kids I get a text saying they had a standing Ovation..

I am sad i missed that but i am stoked that everything went well..

Here is a picture of the Marque in Spokane...


Xavier Frost
CEO/Director

Inlander Spokane Review

Bartenders Ball by Jameson Whiskey

Performed last at the Bartenders ball for over a 1000 bartenders, bar staff, etc and it was amazing. That audience loves its entertainment.. there was a beat boxing jelly donut!

Show Calendar!

The 4 Horsemen/PURE Cirkus Productions 2009
(www.the4horsemen.org)



Oct 16th: Met Theater Spokane: "Hellfire Variety Show/Le Cabaret Noir"

We are heading to Spokane with 2 of our biggest shows merged into one: Hellfire: An edgy variety circus show and Le Cabaret Noir: a drag and burlesque extravaganza.
Get Tickets at (http://www.mettheater.com/pages.asp?id=events&PK=1084&type=&details=true)




Oct 16th and OCT 30th: El gaucho Seattle: "Blue Moon Cabaret/Dark Side of the Moon Burlesque"

Guaranteed to thrill, entertain and tease, the swanky Pampas Room at El Gaucho Seattle has added five new dates to its lineup of dinner and burlesque shows throughout October, November and December.
Get Tickets at (http://www.mettheater.com/pages.asp?id=events&PK=1084&type=&details=true)









Nov 9th: REBAR Seattle: "Amsterdam or Bust"

A select group of Seattle's premier Burlesque/Variety performers have been chosen to represent the Emerald City in the 1st Annual Amsterdam Burlesque Festival, November 19-22. To support and assist their endevour, their fellow performers and friends are throwing a benefit Nov 9th at the REBAR.
Get Tickets at(http://amsterdambust.eventbrite.com)









Nov 25th: Heavens Seattle: "SST/PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW"

With its amazing adult circus and burlesque performances, The 4 Horsemen celebrate thier 4 year anniversary at Club Heaven (172 South Washington Seattle, WA 98104) with the release of thier new show The PURE Cirkus Roadshow, sponsored by the Seattle Sinner Magazine.
Get Tickets at(http://www.the4horsemen.org/purecirkusroadshow/purecirkusroadshows.php)

Xavier Frost Teaching at Burlycon

Oct 22-25th 2009 Burlycon:

Xavier Frost, CEO/Director of the 4 Horsemen/PURE Cirkus will be teaching a tax class for performers at Burlycon on Thursday the 22nd as well as presenting on the Fair compensation panel on Saturday.

http://www.burlyconseattle.com/

New Show at El Gaucho is up on their website

http://www.elgaucho.com/elgaucho/_seattle/index.htm

We are so excited to start this show at El Gaucho.. Check out the link

Here is the Video

 

Q13 Fox News on OUr Show at El Gaucho..

Here is the Link: http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-092309-burlesque,0,4820689.story

SEATTLE - Burlesque, originally popular here in the States from 1840 through the 1960s, is becoming popular again.

Burlesque blends satire, comedy and adult entertainment, and people everywhere are rediscovering the performance art that once involved every star and writer from Mae West to Bob Hope.

We'll assume Mr. Hope was a writer.

The interest in burlesque has grown so much in recent years, "how to" schools are popping up all over. Miss Indigo Blue is the headmistress and founder of the Seattle Academy of Burlesque. The three-time Miss Exotic World award-winner opened the school in 2003, where she offers classes for women and men in beginning to intermediate Burlesque Arts. The institution is the only one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest!

Women say taking these classes helps them feel more confident in their own skin. Many find it to be an empowering balance to their day jobs.

But the best way to understand burlesque is to experience it.

Miss Indigo Blue is bringing the Va Va Voom to the Pampas Room at El Gaucho's Seattle location. Catch "Nouveau Burlesque" on October 16th from 7:30 - 10:30 pm. Tickets, which start at $70 and run up to $200 per person, include the show as well as a four-course, select dinner menu with your choice of entrée. A select, discounted wine list will also be available during the show.

For tickets, call El Gaucho at (206) 728-1337.

To learn more about Miss Indigo Blue's Seattle Academy of Burlesque, click the link attached to this story.
Copyright © 2009, KCPQ-TV

PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW: Press release

Media Contact: Xavier Frost
Harlot Design PR / (206) 396-1440

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The 4 Horsemen / PURE Cirkus Seattle to Launch New Circus Show
The 4 Horsemen Productions 4 Year Anniversary will Bring Circus to the Night Clubs of Seattle this Fall

Seattle, Wash.—(Sept 12, 2009)— With its amazing adult circus and burlesque performances, The 4 Horsemen celebrate thier 4 year anniversary with the release of thier new show The PURE Cirkus Roadshow, sponsored by the Seattle Sinner Magazine.

Popular performers from some of the top troupes in Seattle will showcase their “Circque Noir” or Dark circus show from 9:00 to 1:30 a.m. on November 25 as part of the anniversary show and launch. Tickets vary in price from $10 to $20 per person and are available at www.the4horsemen.org.

Front-row couch seating costs $20 per person
General admission pre-sale costs $10 per person
Day of costs $15 per person

They are returning to their roots in the nightclubs that started it all with kick-ass variety show you've ever seen. Coming out of retirement to MC the night is our Semi-eloquent bastard Cannibal Jack, and token Black Performer Palomino, acting as MCs for the evening entertainment. The Show will present breathtaking performances of Fire, Freaks, Geeks, and more.


The 4 Horsemen Productions / PURE Cirkus® is a Not-For-Profit production company dedicated to producing experimental and original Theatrical/Nightlife and entertainment through live performance and music as well as a booking agency (PURE Cirkus) for local performance talent. As part of our mission we also produce educational programs for performing artists. Though based in Seattle we have created over 300 shows across the world for both the public, private and corporate events. visit www.the4horsemen.org.

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Media Contact: Xavier Frost
Harlot Design PR / (206) 396-1440

Back From LA...

I Spent a week in LA looking for new venues for our shows.. It was an awesome trip...

I went and saw over 15 venues and nightclubs, they were all very impressive.. and i ended up booking Le Cabaret Noir at the Avalon Theater.. check it out at www.avalonhollywood.com

Hopefully we will be able to book the other shows down there.. and the trip was so successful i think i will try going to Chicago as well as NY to see if i can do the same thing...

Flying to LA

Tomorrow our CEO leaves for LA to check out some of the theaters and clubs. He will be looking for potential places for us to perform down there as well as new talent!

If your in LA.. let us know.

Work, Work, Work

Today I met with Armitage Shanks to talk over the changes to Hellfire.. i think with him directing it the show will be way more spectacular.

Tomorrow i have a meeting with investors for the space we are trying to get.. cross your fingers...

On the 1st ill be flying down to LA to check out some clubs and spaces down there.. fun fun..

Living as a Carnie...

So I have decided that this Blog is boring.. so we are going to talk a little bit about the Cirkus.. hahahaha

If you dont know the story..then you have been living under a Rock! and if soo here is the short version..

Jenny Penny----> A Co Founder of PURE Cirkus and I met at a bar where she was slamming car bombs..(see Alcoholic Drinks). She was told by Doc (Dipstick) That she had very few years to live do to a heart condition.. so she wanted to put hooks in her body and Suspend.. so she did...

on Easter.. she suspended for her first time for 2 hours...fucker wouldnt come down...

Thus began the story of PURE Cirkus...and we put more hooks in more people..and so on and so forth..

X

Getting prepped for Le Cabaret Noir in Olympia

We are returning to Olympia Capitol Theater.. Its always fun to go down there since there isnt a whole lot of Burlesque or Drag in the city..

Last time we were there with the cirkus we brought along Inga Ingenue and they loved here.. i think they freaked out that someone was going to strip on stage...

We are care pooling it down that day...I hope we have a good turn out.. come see us!

PURE CIRKUS ROADSHOW

Nov 25th The 4 Horsemen Productions/PURE Cirkus, Bev America, Kink Kola, Bikini Soda and the Seattle Sinner Magazine bring to you, for the first time ever, new an improved, in your face, up close an personal experience:

Our 4 Year anniversary party and the introduction of a new Show:
The PURE Cirkus ROADSHOW: Pleasure and Pain edition w/:

FIRE PERFORMANCE!

FREAKS!

GEEKS!

PIERCING/SUSPENSION!

JELLO WRESTLING!

AND MORE!

With music accompaniment by Amphetamine Virus!

The 4 Horsemen/PURE Cirkus is returning to its roots in the nightclubs that started it all with kick-ass variety show you've ever seen. Coming out of retirement to MC the night is our Semi-eloquent bastard Cannibal Jack, and token Black Performer Palomino, acting as MCs for the evening entertainment.

Come one, come all- join us for our brand new show!

Nov 25th, Doors are at 8pm, Show starts at 9pm.
21+ with ID
Presale General Admission: $10
Presale Couch:$20
Day of General Admission: $15
Ticket Link: http://www.purecirkusroadshow.com

If you know the secret password you can get em cheaper.

www.the4horsemen.org
www.theseattlesinner.com
www.bevamerica.com

Noel the Freak Interview

Noel the Freak had an interview with the Stranger:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/07/seattle_people_qa_noel_the_fre.php

Seattle People Q&A: Noel the Freak on Frat Guys, His Children, and His Tattoos

Interview conducted by Jenny Jimenez:

On his America's Got Talent fame: "Sharon Osborne called me boring and gay so I told her off. It was much longer... they heavily edited it for television but they still put me in the opening of the show. Every episode has me in the beginning."

On his lifestyle: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I'm a single father to three kids."

On his children following in his footsteps: "I wouldn't mind. It's awesome to be able to expose them to a different way of living."

On being a freak: "I see frat guys walking around all looking the same. Same shorts, same shoes, same hats.. and they think I'm the freak?!"

On his chosen tattoos: "I have a tattoo of a dead seahorse. Male seahorses give birth and take care of their kids. I can relate. I think

4 Year Anniversary Party...

We have decided to make the Nov 25th show also out 4 year anniversary party as well as the launch of the PURE Cirkus Roadshow.. it will be like going home again..

YEAH!

The PURE Cirkus Roadshow/Updates..

We just finished the new website for the PURE Cirkus Roadshow.. and it looks awesome..
www.the4horsemen.org/purecirkusroadshow/purecirkusroadshow.php

So many things are happening right now.. we may end up getting into business with a soda company making our own cola.. haha.. imagine that..

Also lots of new shows booked..

PURE Cirkus Roadshow: Nov 25th Heavens
Hellfire: Oct 16th Spokane, Feb 24th and 25th at the Triple Door Seattle
Le Cabaret Noir: August 21st Olympia Capitol Theater

I need a vacation...haha

Long an interesting Weekend

We were in the Pride Parade this weekend, it was totally a blast though exhausting for most of us who were walking the entire way in 4 inch platforms or high heels. If anyone has pictures please send them over to us.

Currently we are working on a complete redesign of our website.. it should be awesome once it is done. We are hoping to get it done this week.

Also got some dates confirmed for some of our new shows.

Hellfire will be returning to the Triple Door Feb 25th and 26th of 2010
The new show PURE Cirkus Roadshow: The Pleasure and PAIN addition will be at Heavens Nov 25th..

that is all..

Hardtimes.. this WED.. and Every Wed

We are delving back into the night club scene with a new ..dance/performance night.. HARDTIMES.. i am interested to see how this goes. We have been pretty successful with nightclubs so i think this will be awesome.

Here is the info..
HARD TIMES
Why get through it, when you can get in2it!

Hard times, a multi, poly, omni art, experiment every wednesday at the War Room starting June 24th

This Alchemical Trans-modern weekly is brought to you by the same family of artists and procuders that brought to you TASTY SHOWS, HOT MESS, LEMON TWIST, KISS MY ASS, SPICE, ARO.SPACE, CALIENTE, HOT WIRED, PURE CIRKUS and all kinds of messed up shit...and weekly art and mayhem curated in collaboration with our brothers and sisters at The 4 Horsemen Producertions.

Who needs ONE kind of music,
When you can make love to all of it.
BBQ on the room from 7-9pm

Electro, House, Glam Rock, Hip Hop, Mash-ups, Indie Rock, 80's Jam.

EVERY WEDENSDAY starting JUNE 24th
ONLY $5
Starts a 7pm

DRAG QUEENS/KINGS, CROSS DRESSERs, and NUNS in Habit get in FREE!
http://www.hardtimespress.com/

Investors..

Working on investors today.. It seems that to make money you have to spend money.. of course that is how the world works....it seems that to find investors you have to spend money.. so you become an investor yourself.. spending money to find people that want to give you money.. its sorta discouraging because you never know who is just trying to take your money..I have faith that we will find someone that has enough courage to give us the funding we need to get our production space open...

Xavier
CEO/Director

This weekend we are doing a Class for MC's in Seattle

Here is what we have been working on for this weekend:

Have you always wanted to learn more about becoming an MC/Host/Compere but didn't know where you could find a professional to teach you? Come to our next class;

How to MC with Armitage Shanks from Circus Contraption!

Armitage Shanks is an International Compere, Singer and Performer. He is also the Co-Founder of Circus Contraption, a one-ring traveling circus at the forefront of the "New Circus" movement. His recent credits include the London Burlesque Festival, The Supper Club and Paleis Van De Weemoed (Amsterdam), Absolut Burlesque Ball (Dublin), The New York Burlesque Festival, Le Scandal and The Slipper Room (NY) as well as a tour of Portugal with Circus Contraption. Armitage Shanks was featured in the January 2009 issue of Playboy France, Dans (Netherlands premier performance magazine), and Time Out London, which hailed hims as "One of the darkest-hearted comperes on the burlesque circuit- not only a biting ringmaster, but a unique singer as well".
Find out more at- www.myspace.com/armitagephineasshanks

The 4 Horsemen will feature two classes; MC for Beginners and MC for the working Performer.

MC for Beginners
June 13, 2009, 12 pm to 4 pm
Century Ballroom
915 E Pine St. Seattle, WA 98122

MC for the working Performer
June 14, 2009, 12 pm to 4 pm
Century Ballroom
915 E Pine St. Seattle, WA 98122

Each Class will feature interactive lectures with Armitage Shanks, followed by workshop and interactive critiques. Each class will be offered for a sliding scale fee; $25 to $50. Pre-register by emailing: education@the4horsemen.org

Armitage will cover subjects such as;

-Role of the MC
-storytelling
-functional segue
-preparation and improvisation

-Psychology of the MC

-getting into character
-relationship to performers

-relationship to audience

-Finding your MC Character
-the MC as a character
-originality
-body language
-servant leadership

-Getting Started
-classes
-where to go/offer services
-experimenting

Website..

We have been working on making the website more user friendly and sleeker for weeks..it feels like an endless project. The second you think you have it completed you realize you need something else.. Its an endless run.. I need a web team just so i can stop working on it..

Our New blog

Hello everyone,

This is our new 4 Horsemen/PURE Cirkus Blog where we will talk about productions and all the things going on behind the scenes of the company..