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LOOK UP!
Night Street Fair
Friday, May 11
Old Post Office Pavilion
1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
8-10 p.m.
From a posse of shifty shrubbery to hilarious clowning
characters to dancers climbing the walls and pirouetting into
the night sky, LOOK UP! Night Street Fair is literally the high
point of the week. While you take in the delights above and
in front of you, snack on the city’s best street food from a
fleet of D.C.’s finest food trucks.
8-9 p.m.
Ambush Theater, Rob Torres,
Bert the Nerd, Paolo Garbanzo
THANK YOU TO…
National Park Service
General Services Administration
DC Office of Planning
National Capitol Planning Commission
Yards Park, LLC
Ronald Reagan International Trade Center
Eastern Market
Half Street Fairgrounds
National Children’s Museum
DC Food Truck Association
Embassy of Spain
Embassy of Colombia
Embassy of Israel
Brightest Young Things
Forest City
Golden Triangle BID
Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America
is made possible through the generosity of the
Charles E. Smith Family Foundation.
This program is part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program,
generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein.
Additional support is provided by
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
FREE PERFORMANCES!
at the Kennedy Center and in the streets!
This project is supported in part by an award from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Photo by Atossa Soltani
PAOLO GARBANZO
PROJECT BANDALOOP
ROB TORRES
9-9:50 p.m.
Project Bandaloop
Bound(less)
Cast your gaze skyward as San
Francisco’s Project Bandaloop
performs Bound(less), a
site-reactive dance on the
architecture of the Old Post
Office. Choreographed by
Amelia Rudolph with
live music by Dana Leong,
Bound(less) marries dynamic
choreography, architectural
lighting, and live music, asking
us to consider who we are in
relation to the environment in
which we move. Bring a mat or
reclining chair for best viewing.
Millennium Stage is brought to you by
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For more information, visit:
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May 6-12, 2012
From a
circus-punk
marching
band and political
puppet theater to
jugglers, contortionists, and stunt
dogs, the electric energy of live interactive
performance invades the streets of Washington.
You’ll find Look Both Ways performances and events at the
Kennedy Center and around Washington, including large-scale
spectacles, street musicians, parade culture, puppetry, circus arts,
chalk drawings, clowning, and more—and it’s all free!

STREET
TO STAGE
Arts from the streets come indoors with nightly performances
on the Millennium Stage.
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
2700 F St., NW
6-7 p.m.
Sunday, May 6
Happenstance Theater, Mucca Pazza
Monday, May 7
Swami Yomahmi, Matt Pauli, Karen Beriss,
Evan Young
Tuesday, May 8
Circo Para Todos
Wednesday, May 9
Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo
Thursday, May 10
The Midnight Circus
MUCCA PAZZA
YO-YO PEOPLE
SWAMI
YOMAHMI
LOOK OUT!
Lunchtime Invasions
Add a little spice to your brown bag lunch when Look Both Ways
invades parks and plazas around town for some noonday nonsense!
Sunday, May 6
Eastern Market
225 7th St., SE
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Nana Projects, Bert the Nerd,
Happenstance Theater,
Mouth Monster
Nationals Stadium/
Half Street Fair Grounds
1299 Half Street St., SE
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Mucca Pazza, Karen Beriss,
Evan Young
Monday, May 7
Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Swami Yomahmi, Matt Pauli,
Karen Beriss, Evan Young
Tuesday, May 8
Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Sweet Heaven Kings, Moira Lee,
Michael Rosman
EVAN YOUNG
Wednesday, May 9
Farragut Square
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Circo Para Todos, Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo
Thursday, May 10
Farragut Square
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Yamomanem, Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo
Friday, May 11
Farragut Square
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
The Midnight Circus, The Red Trouser Show,
Entomo, Natalia Paruz “The Saw Lady”
YAMOMANEM

STREET ARTS
IN THE PARK
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Noon–6 p.m.
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12 p.m. The Sweet Rob Torres Red Trouser Show Midnight Circus
12:15 Heaven Kings Happenstance
12:30 Theater
12:45 Mutts Gone Nuts
1 p.m. Bread & Puppet Acrobuffos Bert the Nerd Zumba Lessons
1:15 Theater Band
1:30 T’ai Chi Yaron Goshen’s Moving Field Guide The Sweet Midnight Circus
1:45 Israeli Street Orchestra Heaven Kings
2 p.m. Jonathan Burns Swami Yomahmi
2:15 Capoeira Lessons Rob Torres
2:30 “Saw Lady”
2:45 Red Trouser Show Nick Cave w/ Lesole’s
3 p.m. Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Happenstance Moving Field Guide Dance Project Bread & Puppet
3:15 Stars
Silk Road Yoga Theater Theater
3:30 Yaron Goshen’s Jonathan Burns
3:45 Israeli Street Orchestra
4 p.m. Rob Torres Bert the Nerd African Dance Mutts Gone Nuts
4:15 Lessons
4:30 “Saw Lady” Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Midnight Circus
4:45 Stars
5 p.m. Lesole’s Dance Acrobuffos Swami Yomahmi
5:15 Project
5:30 Samba Lessons
Red Trouser Show
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GET MOVING!
Learn a new way to move your body with free lessons!
Zumba Lessons with Tanya Owens Nuchols
1-1:30 p.m., The Overlook
T’ai Chi
1:30-2 p.m., The Great Lawn
Capoeira Lessons with the International Capoeira
Angola Foundation
2:15-2:45 p.m., The Overlook
Yoga with Daniel Hickman of Silk Road Yoga
3:15-3:45 p.m., The Great Lawn
African Dance Lessons with Sylvia Soumah of
Coyaba Dance Theater
4-4:30 p.m., The Overlook
Samba Lessons with Zezeh Brazil
5:30-6 p.m., The Boardwalk
I LOVE A PARADE!
Craft a funny hat, make a set of juggling balls, learn to
juggle, then join a colorful procession!
Hat-Making with Nana Projects, Juggling Ball Craft
with the National Children’s Museum, Juggling
Workshops with Michael Rosman and Moira Lee
12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., Workshop Area
Nana Projects Processions, 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
CHALK IT UP!
Watch local artists create while you draw your own
sidewalk masterpiece!
Edwin Fontánez’s Washington Chalk Festival
12-6 p.m., 4th & Water Streets
GO NATURAL!
Dance Exchange: Moving Field Guide
Activate your senses and observation skills through a
series of outdoor movement activities led by Dance
Exchange artists, naturalists, and regional experts in
history and ecology. Made possible by the support of the
U.S. Forest Service.
1:30-2 p.m., 3-3:30 p.m., The Overlook
ROVING ARTISTS
Bread & Puppet Theater, 12-12:30 p.m., 5-6 p.m.
Jonathan Burns, 12-1 p.m.
“Saw Lady,” 12-1 p.m., 4-5 p.m.
Valeska Maria Populoh,
12-1 p.m., 2-3 p.m., 4-5 p.m.
Karen Beriss, 12:30-1:30 p.m.,
2:30-3:30 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Mouth Monster, 1-2 p.m.,
3-4 p.m., 5-6 p.m.
Happenstance Theatre,
1:30-2:30 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Bert the Nerd, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Acrobuffos, 3-4 p.m.
Swami Yomahmi, 3-4 p.m.
Entomo, 4-4:15 p.m.
Valeska Maria Populoh
LOOK BOTH WAYS: THE ARTISTS
Husband-and-wife team Seth Bloom and Christina
Gelsone, aka the Acrobuffos, have tickled and
tantalized audiences all over the world with
hilarious mask comedy and volatile street theater.
Part puppetry, part topiary, and part clown,
Ambush Theater presents a mobilized posse
of shrubbery with a mind of its own, creating
an engaging and amusingly unpredictable kinetic
landscape.
Magician Karen Beriss, co-producer of Clown
Cabaret, the only regularly occurring clown
production in Washington, D.C., provides fun for
all audiences.
Bert the Nerd, a character created by Rich
Potter, provides thrilling entertainment featuring
improvisation, unicycling, juggling, and more.
Founded in 1962, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet
Theater is a politically radical puppet theater
company that believes art should be as basic to
life as bread.
Contortionist Jonathan Burns uses his flexibility,
curiosity, and goofiness to entertain audiences
around the world with a live entertainment
experience unlike any other.
Working between sculpture, installation,
performance, video, designed-objects, and fashion,
American “trans-artist” Nick Cave is best
known for his wearable fabric sculptures called
Soundsuits.
Colombia’s National Circus School Circo Para
Todos (“Circus for All”) is the first professional
circus school for vulnerable kids and displaced
youth in the world. Presented in cooperation with
the Embassy of Colombia.
Entomo is a dance piece by Elías Aguirre and
Álvaro Esteban where insects and humans come
together through a duet where dance mimics
animal movement. Presented in cooperation with
the Embassy of Spain.
Founded in 1993 by local artist and children’s
book author Edwin Fontánez, the Washington
Chalk Festival is a popular and interactive
event featuring local artists that encourages the
creativity in everyone.
Daring juggler Paolo Garbanzo is a former
member of The Flying Karamazov Brothers and
has received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the
International Juggling Association.
Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Stars (Sensational, Inspiring,
Talented, Youth) is an experienced jump rope
team that inspires kids to fitness while developing
confidence and leadership skills.
Happenstance Theater produces original,
performer-created theater, often including musical
elements, slapstick comedy, mime, and elements
of cabaret.
Local Moira Lee specializes in aerial skills,
trapeze, stilt walking, dancing, living statue, juggling,
balancing acts, and comedy variety shows.
Lesole’s Dance Project is a Maryland-based
dance company that creates and performs works
that highlight the unique qualities of contemporary
modern and Afro-Fusion dance.
The Midnight Circus is a company of actors
and acrobats, aerialists and eccentrics, clowns
and contortionists, who combine their disparate
talents to create an original live performance.
Emily Schubert presents multiple characters
in one with Mouth Monster, using a costume
covered in colorful mouths, each expressing
a different personality.
Chicago-based Mucca Pazza is “an astounding
circus-punk marching band,” featuring slide
trombones, drums, accordions, and more.
Rescued canines are the stars in Mutts Gone
Nuts, a comedy variety dog act by the hilarious
husband-and-wife comedy team Jessie and James
(Scott and Joan Houghton).
Baltimore-based Nana Projects specializes in
original “cultural performances” including paper
lantern parades and overhead projector shadow
puppetry.
Founded in 1974 as the Capital Children’s
Museum, the National Children’s Museum is
dedicated to engaging children and empowering
them to make a difference.
Matt Pauli, skilled at acting, clowning, puppetry,
and vaudeville, will do some plate spinning, cigar
box juggling, balancing, and even some banjo
ukulele playing.
Valeska Maria Populoh is a performer,
artist, and teacher living in Baltimore that uses
costuming, puppetry, and stilting for street
performances, parades, and events.
San Francisco-based Project Bandaloop is a
modern dance company that reframes how people
perceive their environment and the art form by
performing in natural and urban settings.
The Red Trouser Show is a high-energy
acrobatic, juggling, and comedy duo comprised
of performers David Graham and Tobin Renwick.
For 20 years, Michael Rosman has combined
original comedy and juggling, performing feats
involving knives, bull whips, unicycles, and audience
participation.
Natalia Paruz, affectionately known as the “Saw
Lady,” is dedicated to the rare art form of playing
music on a carpenter’s saw (known as the “musical
saw” or “singing saw”).
Swami Yomahmi, created by actor/performer
Stephon Walker, is a hilarious combination of a
physically awkward character and his potentially
dangerous self-inflicted acts.
The Sweet Heaven Kings is the premier
gospel brass band at the United House of
Prayer in Anacostia and is known for its skillful
improvisation and musical intensity.
Whether he’s changing his clothes, setting the
table, or just sitting down, Rob Torres uses
his formal training in theater, circus arts, and
pantomime to find the absurdity in everyday tasks.
D.C.-based Yamomanem is rooted in early
20th century New Orleans and hot jazz but with
a twist: they take inspiration from the Caribbean
and the natural beats of the city street.
Yo-Yo People, AKA married duo John Higby
and Rebecca Loomis Higby, brings back the Yo-Yo,
sharing both classic and new and impressive tricks,
all set to high energy music.
Evan Young has trained with a number of highly
regarded circus instructors, wielding a distinctive
mix of quick wit, youthful energy, and stunning
juggling skills.