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LOOK UP!<br />
Night Street Fair<br />
Friday, May 11<br />
Old Post Office Pavilion<br />
1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br />
8-10 p.m.<br />
From a posse of shifty shrubbery to hilarious clowning<br />
characters to dancers climbing <strong>the</strong> walls and pirouetting into<br />
<strong>the</strong> night sky, LOOK UP! Night Street Fair is literally <strong>the</strong> high<br />
point of <strong>the</strong> week. While you take in <strong>the</strong> delights above and<br />
in front of you, snack on <strong>the</strong> city’s best street food from a<br />
fleet of D.C.’s finest food trucks.<br />
8-9 p.m.<br />
Ambush <strong>The</strong>ater, Rob Torres,<br />
Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd, Paolo Garbanzo<br />
THANK YOU TO…<br />
National Park Service<br />
General Services Administration<br />
DC Office of Planning<br />
National Capitol Planning Commission<br />
Yards Park, LLC<br />
Ronald Reagan International Trade <strong>Center</strong><br />
Eastern Market<br />
Half Street Fairgrounds<br />
National Children’s Museum<br />
DC Food Truck Association<br />
Embassy of Spain<br />
Embassy of Colombia<br />
Embassy of Israel<br />
Brightest Young Things<br />
Forest City<br />
Golden Triangle BID<br />
<strong>Look</strong> <strong>Both</strong> <strong>Ways</strong>: Street Arts Across America<br />
is made possible through <strong>the</strong> generosity of <strong>the</strong><br />
Charles E. Smith Family Foundation.<br />
This program is part of <strong>the</strong> Rubenstein Arts Access Program,<br />
generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein.<br />
Additional support is provided by<br />
<strong>The</strong> Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.<br />
FREE PERFORMANCES!<br />
at <strong>the</strong> <strong>Kennedy</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and in <strong>the</strong> streets!<br />
This project is supported in part by an award from <strong>the</strong><br />
National Endowment <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Arts.<br />
Photo by Atossa Soltani<br />
PAOLO GARBANZO<br />
PROJECT BANDALOOP<br />
ROB TORRES<br />
9-9:50 p.m.<br />
Project Bandaloop<br />
Bound(less)<br />
Cast your gaze skyward as San<br />
Francisco’s Project Bandaloop<br />
per<strong>for</strong>ms Bound(less), a<br />
site-reactive dance on <strong>the</strong><br />
architecture of <strong>the</strong> Old Post<br />
Office. Choreographed by<br />
Amelia Rudolph with<br />
live music by Dana Leong,<br />
Bound(less) marries dynamic<br />
choreography, architectural<br />
lighting, and live music, asking<br />
us to consider who we are in<br />
relation to <strong>the</strong> environment in<br />
which we move. Bring a mat or<br />
reclining chair <strong>for</strong> best viewing.<br />
Millennium Stage is brought to you by<br />
Interact with us!<br />
Follow @kencen and #kcstreetarts on Twitter or<br />
<strong>Kennedy</strong> <strong>Center</strong> on Facebook and post your thoughts and photos.<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation, visit:<br />
kennedy-center.org/lookbothways<br />
May 6-12, 2012<br />
From a<br />
circus-punk<br />
marching<br />
band and political<br />
puppet <strong>the</strong>ater to<br />
jugglers, contortionists, and stunt<br />
dogs, <strong>the</strong> electric energy of live interactive<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance invades <strong>the</strong> streets of Washington.<br />
You’ll find <strong>Look</strong> <strong>Both</strong> <strong>Ways</strong> per<strong>for</strong>mances and events at <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>Kennedy</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and around Washington, including large-scale<br />
spectacles, street musicians, parade culture, puppetry, circus arts,<br />
chalk drawings, clowning, and more—and it’s all free!
STREET<br />
TO STAGE<br />
Arts from <strong>the</strong> streets come indoors with nightly per<strong>for</strong>mances<br />
on <strong>the</strong> Millennium Stage.<br />
<strong>Kennedy</strong> <strong>Center</strong> Millennium Stage<br />
2700 F St., NW<br />
6-7 p.m.<br />
Sunday, May 6<br />
Happenstance <strong>The</strong>ater, Mucca Pazza<br />
Monday, May 7<br />
Swami Yomahmi, Matt Pauli, Karen Beriss,<br />
Evan Young<br />
Tuesday, May 8<br />
Circo Para Todos<br />
Wednesday, May 9<br />
Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo<br />
Thursday, May 10<br />
<strong>The</strong> Midnight Circus<br />
MUCCA PAZZA<br />
YO-YO PEOPLE<br />
SWAMI<br />
YOMAHMI<br />
LOOK OUT!<br />
Lunchtime Invasions<br />
Add a little spice to your brown bag lunch when <strong>Look</strong> <strong>Both</strong> <strong>Ways</strong><br />
invades parks and plazas around town <strong>for</strong> some noonday nonsense!<br />
Sunday, May 6<br />
Eastern Market<br />
225 7th St., SE<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Nana Projects, Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd,<br />
Happenstance <strong>The</strong>ater,<br />
Mouth Monster<br />
Nationals Stadium/<br />
Half Street Fair Grounds<br />
1299 Half Street St., SE<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Mucca Pazza, Karen Beriss,<br />
Evan Young<br />
Monday, May 7<br />
Woodrow Wilson Plaza<br />
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Swami Yomahmi, Matt Pauli,<br />
Karen Beriss, Evan Young<br />
Tuesday, May 8<br />
Woodrow Wilson Plaza<br />
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Sweet Heaven Kings, Moira Lee,<br />
Michael Rosman<br />
EVAN YOUNG<br />
Wednesday, May 9<br />
Farragut Square<br />
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Circo Para Todos, Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo<br />
Thursday, May 10<br />
Farragut Square<br />
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
Yamomanem, Yo-Yo People, Paolo Garbanzo<br />
Friday, May 11<br />
Farragut Square<br />
17th St., NW (bordered by I and K Sts.)<br />
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Midnight Circus, <strong>The</strong> Red Trouser Show,<br />
Entomo, Natalia Paruz “<strong>The</strong> Saw Lady”<br />
YAMOMANEM
STREET ARTS<br />
IN THE PARK<br />
Saturday, May 12, 2012<br />
Noon–6 p.m.<br />
MOUTH<br />
MONSTER<br />
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F Food<br />
Trucks<br />
R Restrooms<br />
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First Aid<br />
MUTTS GONE NUTS<br />
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Great<br />
Lawn<br />
Navy Yard<br />
BREAD & PUPPET THEATER<br />
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Arrival<br />
Plaza<br />
Under<br />
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NICK CAVE<br />
Yards Park<br />
Entrances at 3rd, 4th, and Water Streets, SE<br />
NANA PROJECTS<br />
Arrival Plaza <strong>The</strong> Great Lawn Under <strong>the</strong> Bridge <strong>The</strong> Overlook <strong>The</strong> Boardwalk Lumber Shed Plaza East Lawn<br />
12 p.m. <strong>The</strong> Sweet Rob Torres Red Trouser Show Midnight Circus<br />
12:15 Heaven Kings Happenstance<br />
12:30 <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
12:45 Mutts Gone Nuts<br />
1 p.m. Bread & Puppet Acrobuffos Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd Zumba Lessons<br />
1:15 <strong>The</strong>ater Band<br />
1:30 T’ai Chi Yaron Goshen’s Moving Field Guide <strong>The</strong> Sweet Midnight Circus<br />
1:45 Israeli Street Orchestra Heaven Kings<br />
2 p.m. Jonathan Burns Swami Yomahmi<br />
2:15 Capoeira Lessons Rob Torres<br />
2:30 “Saw Lady”<br />
2:45 Red Trouser Show Nick Cave w/ Lesole’s<br />
3 p.m. Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Happenstance Moving Field Guide Dance Project Bread & Puppet<br />
3:15 Stars<br />
Silk Road Yoga <strong>The</strong>ater <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
3:30 Yaron Goshen’s Jonathan Burns<br />
3:45 Israeli Street Orchestra<br />
4 p.m. Rob Torres Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd African Dance Mutts Gone Nuts<br />
4:15 Lessons<br />
4:30 “Saw Lady” Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Midnight Circus<br />
4:45 Stars<br />
5 p.m. Lesole’s Dance Acrobuffos Swami Yomahmi<br />
5:15 Project<br />
5:30 Samba Lessons<br />
Red Trouser Show<br />
5:45<br />
F<br />
work<br />
shop<br />
area<br />
<strong>the</strong><br />
OVER<br />
LOOK<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
Board<br />
walk<br />
Lumber<br />
Shed<br />
Plaza<br />
chalk<br />
festival<br />
F<br />
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East<br />
Lawn<br />
GET MOVING!<br />
Learn a new way to move your body with free lessons!<br />
Zumba Lessons with Tanya Owens Nuchols<br />
1-1:30 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Overlook<br />
T’ai Chi<br />
1:30-2 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Great Lawn<br />
Capoeira Lessons with <strong>the</strong> International Capoeira<br />
Angola Foundation<br />
2:15-2:45 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Overlook<br />
Yoga with Daniel Hickman of Silk Road Yoga<br />
3:15-3:45 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Great Lawn<br />
African Dance Lessons with Sylvia Soumah of<br />
Coyaba Dance <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
4-4:30 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Overlook<br />
Samba Lessons with Zezeh Brazil<br />
5:30-6 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Boardwalk<br />
I LOVE A PARADE!<br />
Craft a funny hat, make a set of juggling balls, learn to<br />
juggle, <strong>the</strong>n join a colorful procession!<br />
Hat-Making with Nana Projects, Juggling Ball Craft<br />
with <strong>the</strong> National Children’s Museum, Juggling<br />
Workshops with Michael Rosman and Moira Lee<br />
12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., Workshop Area<br />
Nana Projects Processions, 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m.<br />
CHALK IT UP!<br />
Watch local artists create while you draw your own<br />
sidewalk masterpiece!<br />
Edwin Fontánez’s Washington Chalk Festival<br />
12-6 p.m., 4th & Water Streets<br />
GO NATURAL!<br />
Dance Exchange: Moving Field Guide<br />
Activate your senses and observation skills through a<br />
series of outdoor movement activities led by Dance<br />
Exchange artists, naturalists, and regional experts in<br />
history and ecology. Made possible by <strong>the</strong> support of <strong>the</strong><br />
U.S. Forest Service.<br />
1:30-2 p.m., 3-3:30 p.m., <strong>The</strong> Overlook<br />
ROVING ARTISTS<br />
Bread & Puppet <strong>The</strong>ater, 12-12:30 p.m., 5-6 p.m.<br />
Jonathan Burns, 12-1 p.m.<br />
“Saw Lady,” 12-1 p.m., 4-5 p.m.<br />
Valeska Maria Populoh,<br />
12-1 p.m., 2-3 p.m., 4-5 p.m.<br />
Karen Beriss, 12:30-1:30 p.m.,<br />
2:30-3:30 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m.<br />
Mouth Monster, 1-2 p.m.,<br />
3-4 p.m., 5-6 p.m.<br />
Happenstance <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
1:30-2:30 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m.<br />
Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd, 2:30-3:30 p.m.<br />
Acrobuffos, 3-4 p.m.<br />
Swami Yomahmi, 3-4 p.m.<br />
Entomo, 4-4:15 p.m.<br />
Valeska Maria Populoh<br />
LOOK BOTH WAYS: THE ARTISTS<br />
Husband-and-wife team Seth Bloom and Christina<br />
Gelsone, aka <strong>the</strong> Acrobuffos, have tickled and<br />
tantalized audiences all over <strong>the</strong> world with<br />
hilarious mask comedy and volatile street <strong>the</strong>ater.<br />
Part puppetry, part topiary, and part clown,<br />
Ambush <strong>The</strong>ater presents a mobilized posse<br />
of shrubbery with a mind of its own, creating<br />
an engaging and amusingly unpredictable kinetic<br />
landscape.<br />
Magician Karen Beriss, co-producer of Clown<br />
Cabaret, <strong>the</strong> only regularly occurring clown<br />
production in Washington, D.C., provides fun <strong>for</strong><br />
all audiences.<br />
Bert <strong>the</strong> Nerd, a character created by Rich<br />
Potter, provides thrilling entertainment featuring<br />
improvisation, unicycling, juggling, and more.<br />
Founded in 1962, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet<br />
<strong>The</strong>ater is a politically radical puppet <strong>the</strong>ater<br />
company that believes art should be as basic to<br />
life as bread.<br />
Contortionist Jonathan Burns uses his flexibility,<br />
curiosity, and goofiness to entertain audiences<br />
around <strong>the</strong> world with a live entertainment<br />
experience unlike any o<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
Working between sculpture, installation,<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance, video, designed-objects, and fashion,<br />
American “trans-artist” Nick Cave is best<br />
known <strong>for</strong> his wearable fabric sculptures called<br />
Soundsuits.<br />
Colombia’s National Circus School Circo Para<br />
Todos (“Circus <strong>for</strong> All”) is <strong>the</strong> first professional<br />
circus school <strong>for</strong> vulnerable kids and displaced<br />
youth in <strong>the</strong> world. Presented in cooperation with<br />
<strong>the</strong> Embassy of Colombia.<br />
Entomo is a dance piece by Elías Aguirre and<br />
Álvaro Esteban where insects and humans come<br />
toge<strong>the</strong>r through a duet where dance mimics<br />
animal movement. Presented in cooperation with<br />
<strong>the</strong> Embassy of Spain.<br />
Founded in 1993 by local artist and children’s<br />
book author Edwin Fontánez, <strong>the</strong> Washington<br />
Chalk Festival is a popular and interactive<br />
event featuring local artists that encourages <strong>the</strong><br />
creativity in everyone.<br />
Daring juggler Paolo Garbanzo is a <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
member of <strong>The</strong> Flying Karamazov Bro<strong>the</strong>rs and<br />
has received a Lifetime Achievement Award by <strong>the</strong><br />
International Juggling Association.<br />
Greenbelt S.I.T.Y. Stars (Sensational, Inspiring,<br />
Talented, Youth) is an experienced jump rope<br />
team that inspires kids to fitness while developing<br />
confidence and leadership skills.<br />
Happenstance <strong>The</strong>ater produces original,<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mer-created <strong>the</strong>ater, often including musical<br />
elements, slapstick comedy, mime, and elements<br />
of cabaret.<br />
Local Moira Lee specializes in aerial skills,<br />
trapeze, stilt walking, dancing, living statue, juggling,<br />
balancing acts, and comedy variety shows.<br />
Lesole’s Dance Project is a Maryland-based<br />
dance company that creates and per<strong>for</strong>ms works<br />
that highlight <strong>the</strong> unique qualities of contemporary<br />
modern and Afro-Fusion dance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Midnight Circus is a company of actors<br />
and acrobats, aerialists and eccentrics, clowns<br />
and contortionists, who combine <strong>the</strong>ir disparate<br />
talents to create an original live per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />
Emily Schubert presents multiple characters<br />
in one with Mouth Monster, using a costume<br />
covered in colorful mouths, each expressing<br />
a different personality.<br />
Chicago-based Mucca Pazza is “an astounding<br />
circus-punk marching band,” featuring slide<br />
trombones, drums, accordions, and more.<br />
Rescued canines are <strong>the</strong> stars in Mutts Gone<br />
Nuts, a comedy variety dog act by <strong>the</strong> hilarious<br />
husband-and-wife comedy team Jessie and James<br />
(Scott and Joan Houghton).<br />
Baltimore-based Nana Projects specializes in<br />
original “cultural per<strong>for</strong>mances” including paper<br />
lantern parades and overhead projector shadow<br />
puppetry.<br />
Founded in 1974 as <strong>the</strong> Capital Children’s<br />
Museum, <strong>the</strong> National Children’s Museum is<br />
dedicated to engaging children and empowering<br />
<strong>the</strong>m to make a difference.<br />
Matt Pauli, skilled at acting, clowning, puppetry,<br />
and vaudeville, will do some plate spinning, cigar<br />
box juggling, balancing, and even some banjo<br />
ukulele playing.<br />
Valeska Maria Populoh is a per<strong>for</strong>mer,<br />
artist, and teacher living in Baltimore that uses<br />
costuming, puppetry, and stilting <strong>for</strong> street<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mances, parades, and events.<br />
San Francisco-based Project Bandaloop is a<br />
modern dance company that reframes how people<br />
perceive <strong>the</strong>ir environment and <strong>the</strong> art <strong>for</strong>m by<br />
per<strong>for</strong>ming in natural and urban settings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Red Trouser Show is a high-energy<br />
acrobatic, juggling, and comedy duo comprised<br />
of per<strong>for</strong>mers David Graham and Tobin Renwick.<br />
For 20 years, Michael Rosman has combined<br />
original comedy and juggling, per<strong>for</strong>ming feats<br />
involving knives, bull whips, unicycles, and audience<br />
participation.<br />
Natalia Paruz, affectionately known as <strong>the</strong> “Saw<br />
Lady,” is dedicated to <strong>the</strong> rare art <strong>for</strong>m of playing<br />
music on a carpenter’s saw (known as <strong>the</strong> “musical<br />
saw” or “singing saw”).<br />
Swami Yomahmi, created by actor/per<strong>for</strong>mer<br />
Stephon Walker, is a hilarious combination of a<br />
physically awkward character and his potentially<br />
dangerous self-inflicted acts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sweet Heaven Kings is <strong>the</strong> premier<br />
gospel brass band at <strong>the</strong> United House of<br />
Prayer in Anacostia and is known <strong>for</strong> its skillful<br />
improvisation and musical intensity.<br />
Whe<strong>the</strong>r he’s changing his clo<strong>the</strong>s, setting <strong>the</strong><br />
table, or just sitting down, Rob Torres uses<br />
his <strong>for</strong>mal training in <strong>the</strong>ater, circus arts, and<br />
pantomime to find <strong>the</strong> absurdity in everyday tasks.<br />
D.C.-based Yamomanem is rooted in early<br />
20th century New Orleans and hot jazz but with<br />
a twist: <strong>the</strong>y take inspiration from <strong>the</strong> Caribbean<br />
and <strong>the</strong> natural beats of <strong>the</strong> city street.<br />
Yo-Yo People, AKA married duo <strong>John</strong> Higby<br />
and Rebecca Loomis Higby, brings back <strong>the</strong> Yo-Yo,<br />
sharing both classic and new and impressive tricks,<br />
all set to high energy music.<br />
Evan Young has trained with a number of highly<br />
regarded circus instructors, wielding a distinctive<br />
mix of quick wit, youthful energy, and stunning<br />
juggling skills.