International aerialist, Rebecca Leonard, from A Girl In The Sky Productions is sought after for her strength, grace and humor. Her fusion of theater and aerial arts has fueled her creation of innovative...
This mother/daughter aerial team are frighteningly good at what they do. Mortuaria (Martha Enson) and Tuesday (Ruby Joyce) Aadams will amaze and astound even while they worry us with their wickedly accurate...
The Aerialistas are the original aerial girl gang! These inventive and skilled artists are dedicated to bringing glamour, excitement and flirty fun to aerial performance. Poppy Daze, Lillian Dish, Viola...
AerLift is a spectacular one-of-a-kind yearly show presented by the aerial community to raise funds for organizations working
with populations in extreme poverty. All of the performers and staff donate...
Aileen has been described as one of the most experienced street performers in the world. She's also been described as gentle and charming as well as amazing and anarchic. Another writer used this phrase...
Aislinn Mulligan began with competitive artistic gymnastics at age 4 and then after competing internationally she turned her focus to dance and theatre training, competing as a finalist at the National...
Angelo “AJ Silver” Iodice, combines his world class trick roping with bullwhip artistry and boleadoras to create a unique high energy variety act. With his ropes, whips and bolas flying through the air...
In the tradition of the great comedy kings, Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and Jimmy Durante comes Al Simmons - a man dedicated to the all but lost art of combining comedy, with song, dance, magic, sight gags...
Professional Zaniac, Alex is a two-time Guinness World Record holder who was voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comic. He has appeared on prime-time television in three countries including the hit NBC TV shows,...
In the street performing and Vaudeville community Alexis (Lexy) Lee was well known as one of the first woman street performers. She was known for her fire and dinner plate manipulation, she was known for...
The wonderful magic of Alfredo Fettuccini is evanescent and fleeting. It appears in this world only rarely and after great lapses of time, like Northern Lights, or Black Jack Gum, or an onslaught of destructive...
Allie Cooper began learning the fundamentals of aerial work in Santa cruz, California in 2008. Her honest style has developed to utilize momentum and natural pathways and to embrace functionality. Working...
Amanda Crockett started clowning alongside her father at age 9, learning the delicate art of making people laugh. Since then, her pursuit of the perfect blend of circus and physical theatre has taken her...
Whether she's being tormented by a box of chocolates, or is tied to the train tracks awaiting her doom, only the audience can save her. At the age of 13, Mandy took her first workshop at Celebration Barn,...
A pacifist, practitioner of non-violence, and proud member of the ACLU, Amy Denio (rhymes with ‘Ohio’ or ‘gennaio’) is a multi-instrumentalist composer and singer based in Seattle. She’s been creating...
Amy Gordon is a revolutionary comedienne (she spins around a lot, anyway). The granddaughter of The Little Giant, a vaudevillian acrobat/ukulele playing song and dance man of little renown but vast appeal,...
Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy, Esq.) This theatrical aerial clown duo has been creating and performing together for 25 years. Janet studied with M. LeCoq at Ecoles Jacques LeCoq in Paris,...
As you expected from Moisture Festival, this act will deliver just what you wouldn’t expect. Plays like a god, sings like an angel, with songs that bedevil.
Making his 6th appearance at Moisture Festival, Armitage Shanks is one of the most sought after MC/Performers on the International Burlesque, Cabaret & Vaudeville scenes, with performances throughout North...
He’ll deny it (probably from the stage) but he’s a living legend. He turned a charming folksy household percussion instrument, musical spoons, into a performance that blew David Letterman away and produced...
blues, and pop/punk . "Pay to be Loved", her debut album, is described as "exuding a dark outlook that recalls Tom Waits and Edith Piaf...her probing lyrics on the underbelly of romance with delirious...
If you were among those who saw the incredible triple trapeze performances of Aviatrix last year you can attest to the fact that this was a one-of-a-kind experience. We at Moisture Fest would love to see...
Avner Eisenberg was one a handful of 1970s street performers who took their acts into theaters and, along with the Flying Karamazov Brothers and others, gave birth to the New Vaudeville movement. Even...
The annual spring effort by the Fremont and greater Seattle community to support the arts-rich B.F. Day School is and has been our concern as well. Moisture Festival organizers and artists donate their...
According to an article in the special issue City of Music in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with...
Their mother was a trapeze artist in The Bohemian National Circus. She
was, as they say, a real swinger. Therefore this next act came to see
the light of day as one of nature's most unusual experiments....
Bernard Hazens comes to us from the wonderful Seattle Variete institution, Teatro Zinzanni where the show, Radio Free Starlight, runs till May 8.
Bernard has been thrilling and amazing crowds for...
That’s right, these guys can handle anything that happens, no matter what catastrophe might offer itself they will maintain their poise and stand strong … in the face of … um, I’m sorry, excuse me, I’m...
Bill Robison is a physical comedian.....His performances are a synthesis of outlandish comedy, an elastic face, a penchant for the absurd and a reckless sense of abandon. He has been touring internationally...
Producer and session player Billy Oskay was born and raised in Kingston, NY, where at age seven he first picked up the violin. Beginning in 1970 he studied under Eugen Prokop at the International Academy...
Vaudeville East meets Vaudeville West when Bindlestiff appears at the Moisture Festival. Since 1995 the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has traveled the world, bringing its unique hybrid of Vaudeville, Circus,...
Over the last decade Bob Malone has carved out a unique niche '" burning up a quarter million miles of asphalt a year touring his own national circuit, … pounding out his sound for devoted fans across...
The Bobs return to the Moisture Festival this year with their newest member; Angie Bob Doctor joins Richard Bob Greene, Matthew Bob Stull and Dan Bob Schumacher. This is not your run-of-the-mill a cappella...
For the people who are familiar with Moisture Festival, I have to say ... Brent comes pretty highly recommended: one publication referred to him this way: "charming, sweet and very talented...Bob the Builder...
Brittany Walsh competed nationally and internationally in gymnastic sports for twelve years before succumbing to the enchantments of the performing arts at the age of seventeen. In 2005, she joined Portland,...
Bronkar and Cyndi have been a joint creative force since 2001. Their variety show is a high energy, multi-instrumental, rhythmic and comedic journey that combines Bronkar's percussiveness and awe-inducing...
Internationally acclaimed beatboxer,
drummer, juggler, musician, actor, funny
man, and circus performer extraordinaire,
Bronkar Lee has taken his skills to
thousands of colleges, schools, fairs,
festivals,...
They were recently voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comics and are also proud Guinness World Record Holders. They perform at over 200 events a year including their own variety show entitled “All 4 Limbs”....
Bruce Wylie is a founding member of the Seattle Mime Theater company. He has created innumerable works during the past 20 years, relishing opportunities as performer, writer, director, choreographer, mask...
Caela Bailey’s sultry lead vocals with Katy Webber, Cathy Sutherland and Mari Finch’s smooth and seductive backup vocals are fire roasted. They’re coming back to the Moisture and they’ll make you want...
Caela Bailey is a Seattle-based chanteuse, dancer and all around
entertainer. A natural performer with formidable stage presence, she’s
been performing and touring with her family’s vaudeville troupe,...
The Canote Brothers from Seattle, WA, are as renowned for their affable attitudes and humor as they are for their music. Greg on fiddle, and Jere on guitar, and both on banjo ukes, perform zany concerts,...
Carla Ulbrich, President of the Difficult Last Name Club and former member of the defunct trio Girls Gone Funny is a comical singer-songwriter and guitarist from South Carolina currently living in New...
Ms Andersen’s grace, elegant athleticism, and memorable beauty, offers audiences the illusion, that she is not earthbound, but could, at will, fly away in a twinkling visit to the Milky Way. She will dazzle...
Cathy is one of the original Daring Deviante Sisters, a skilled acrobatic duo with an odd sense of humor who brought a new element to the blossoming New Vaudeville scene in the 1980s. Active in several...
Too weird to explain, too cool to miss, I will be watching this carefully, again! Sometime around the turn of the century, in between the heydays of the great medicine shows and vaudeville, there was...
Born into a show biz family on the other side of the Berlin wall, Chantall formed her own sense of style as she trained to be a contortionist. When the wall came down she brought her act into the exploding...
If you catch Charlie Brown off stage and you and he have the time, try to get him to tell you a story of his travels. Some of the experiences themselves would be of interest with anyone’s telling but hearing...
In one of his blog posts, The Checkerboard Guy (AKA David Aiken) quoted Yoda, the Jedi Master: “Do or do not. There is no try.” This is an appropriate reference coming from the "Go anywhere, do anything...
Performing artist, Christian Swenson, was born and raised in NH. He has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and improvisation, and is known for his pioneering work in a form he calls "Human...
Born in and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christopher Phi began theater and gymnastics at the age of 10. He competed in power tumbling throughout high school, twice becoming national champion....
Seattle's own Fremont Players present Cinderella in a the British Panto style that is familiar to every grownup who was ever a child in the British Isles or many other parts of the English speaking world....
A recent show by Circus Syzygy was described like this: "In an era when technology and information pervade our lives, we are hyper-connected, yet perhaps even our neighbors are utter strangers. Plugged-in,...
Sasha Harrington and Chloe Gordon-Murer are San Francisco based performers, with the troupe City Circus. They create doubles aerial acts on tissue, rope, hoop and straps, as well as work as an acrobatic...
Beginning with a street show in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Clay has now performed in theaters and festivals around the world. A master of all forms of the ancient art of puppetry, including hand puppets,...
Cohdi Harrell is an acrobatic performance maker currently based in the high desert of northern New Mexico. Interested in subtlety more than spectacle, and transition over trick, his unique style of poetic...
Comedy and Juggling, Unicycling and Bad Judgment. That's the motto that propels this powerful duo. Scott Meltzer and Katrine Spang-Hanssen specialize in custom scripted presentations for tradeshows, sales...
About Correo Aereo
facebook share
Previous12Next
Correo Aereo (Air Mail) is an award winning acoustic multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World Music Duo. They perform traditional music of Latin America:...
Shayna Swanson and Amanda Crockett perform their strikingly powerful and unique collaboration on the Aerial Frame. Created in Chicago during the Moisture Festival last year, the act combines the strength...
With a style all his own, Curtis fuses world class juggling skills and fresh, innovative comedy. A featured performer with the nationally touring Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theatre, Curtis now performs...
Through the years the Raspyni Brothers have become Moisture Festival favorites. For some of the days this year we were able to bring one of the two to Seattle. He is variously known as "the funny one"...
Dana Smith has been entertaining the world since 1974 when he got his start with the legendary Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus. After touring nationally he settled into a long run at some...
DANGEROUS Theatrical Dance & Drag Troupe is really more of a loose association of like minded crimin. . . .uh, creative professionals. We like to think of ourselves as family. Yeah. A family where blood...
Daniel was born to a pair of robots in the Virgo Supercluster at the outer limits of the Milky Way Galaxy near a star known locally as the Sun on a planet where the food is quite good. To survive captivity...
Welcome to 'The Honeymoon Cabaret' starring Marc and Svetlana Buttersworth.
When an American cheeseball loves a Russian mail-order bride, a vaudevillian feast of comic proportions is born! This couple...
With appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Last Comic Standing", David Deeble's "Unnatural Act" is a whirlwind display of exotic skills laugh-out-loud commentary. He kicks coins into his...
David Engel, a New York actor, physical comedian and sailor has entertained with his off-beat characters for twenty years now at festivals, corporate events, libraries, schools, and camps along with his...
Della's first performance was a duet spoof of a musical duo they dearly admired. Finding immense delight in the whole process, she has since been creating and performing new material for an ongoing monthly...
Whitney acquired a fancy for brazen vulnerability in utero, whilst gurgling french with one foot behind her head. After returning from two years of school in Paris, she has honed these abilities and regularly...
This is a rare American appearance for Fred. We're fortunate to be able to make it work. Here's how Fred tells his life story:
Born to a Lutheran minister and a former army nurse, my childhood was marked...
This darling daredevil stirs up an aerial cocktail guaranteed to leave audiences reeling! Since joining up with the Aerialistas for Moisture Festival in 2009, Dizzy has swung from rafters in Seattle, Olympia,...
Doc And Stumpy celebrate the golden age of the vaudeville and burlesque routines that are often forgotten these days. They have been surprising audiences in Las Vegas and Hollywood with their performances...
Doc Sprinsock and the SANCApators are the fabulously eclectic house band for SANCA, the Seattle circus school. When Fabio Sprinsock was born on a cold, gray Seattle morning, he was so surprised he didn't...
The good but creepy doctor and his cool-skinned lover are remarkably nimble for those who teeter on the brink of life and death. Dr. Loligo Calamari and Acrophelia (A.K.A Jason Williams and Evelyn Bittner),.members...
The good doctor is known in some circles as a Knight of the Green Cloth. These are circles that you would be well advised to avoid if you're thinking of gambling with this month's rent or the baby's milk...
Dream Science Circus of Bellingham, Washington brings their acrobatic and sense of wonder and imagination to communities across the Northwest featuring the collaborations of several skilled individuals....
The bears have been doing their sweet dance number now for almost twenty years and they still don’t have it down. No matter, they’ll have you bending over backwards as the four bears simply bend over....
When the two ladies of this stunning and sexy new duo met, it was trapeze love at first sight. Together, Cameron and Marina as Duo de Luna, relay through their movements the complexities of any relationship;...
Former lab partners and biology graduates from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, life partners Rachel Nehmer and Ben Wendel came to Seattle to explore their passion for trapeze. Working, training, and...
"The first American circus artists to perform in Havana, Cuba since 1959"
The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless...
Do you crave the authentic Western cowpoke experience? The point of view of those who ride the real range and actually work among the herds? Yeah? Why’d you come to a Comedy/ Varietè Festival then? Dusty...
Glenn Singer was born in the year of Sputnik into the home of a rocket scientist, and subsequently raised by dwarves. No matter what humble circumstances he found himself in throughout his childhood, Glenn...
Liza is a unique performing artist with a diverse movement background.
She spent her early career performing and studying dance in New York and L.A. with Deborah Hay, Jacques Heim, Juliette Mapp, Guido...
Equilibrium Circus is an award winning duo that specializes in the art of partnering. Paz and Leah are honored to be a part of the 2012 Moisture Festival line-up and will be performing "Caliente" - a...
Seattle songwriter Eric Apoe started in the music business as a drummer for Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, with whom he toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Later signed as a staff writer for Warner-Chappell,...
Eric Newton is an accomplished performer, actor & acrobat, making his second appearance at the Moisture Festival. Based in Los Angeles, Eric performs solo, duo and group aerials, ground acrobatics and...
Eric Schwartz's razor sharp, adults-mostly, on-the-spot wit combined with his exceptional musicality have made him a stand-out performer when appearing on the Comedy Central Stage (in Sit'n Spin); with...
Esther Edelman of UMO fame is performing at this year's festival as a solo aerialist along with the wonderful Jami Sieber on cello and Esther will join the amazing aerial troupe Aviatrix. Esther has over...
Ezra Weill and Una Bennett, a brother and sister duo, were born and raised in Seattle. They’ve been active in circus arts for most of their lives and got their first tastes of live performance by busking...
When asked in an interview for advice to performers Flyin' Bob Palmer answered “Be original be creative, If you do something that no one else does, then you are the best in the world.” Apt advice from...
Flying debris take on new roles in the hands of The Chairmen. dedicated to exploring and expanding the world's perception of those white plastic stacking patio chairs that are found everywhere on the planet.
Yup,...
Two performers: one outwardly calm, the other wound tighter than a spring. If there is a dim-witted innocence about them, it's because their childlike charm permeates their world, placing them in situations...
When he was a kid growing up in Berkeley, California a performance troupe set up on a lot not far from his home. This group had the whiff of counterculture about them and Frank and his friends rode their...
Frankie's juggling will astound you but he claims that it's not so much skill as luck. His patterns change in ways that remind us of notes on a musical scale but we are asked to believe that it's good...
Originally the Freiberg Philharmonium, the Fremont Philharmonic couldn't get a gig in town, as everyone in the little Alsatian town was in the band. Neighboring villages suspected with so much talent in...
Crowned the "Hot Pink Habanero" by The Stranger and voted "Seattles' Sexiest Burlesque Performer" (2008) Fuchsia FoXXX is the stand out hybrid of bellydance for the burlesque stage. Entertaining audiences...
He spent 20-odd years (some of them very odd) touring the world as a professional juggler with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, then retired to his home in Seattle, his other home in Santa Cruz, and his...
A trapeze artist whose work on the static trapeze is almost brazenly straightforward. In short, percussive phrases, she reels off a series of still poses, like a stop-action film, cutting each one off...
If you have friends who knows a little about magic performance, tell him them that the British magician Gazzo is coming to Moisture Festival. I can then be silent and let them persuade you to take this...
Okay ... I'll tell you what, click on that link above that will take you to their MySpace page where you can hear the music for this strange Circus Contraption connected band and then YOU try to write...
Godfrey is quiet on stage but you should hear the tales he tells backstage! His trip to perform on French television is hilarious. His long time companion, Randy Minkler, confirms that the town and the...
Hacki was living in West Berlin on the day that the Berlin Wall came down. He went, that day, into the East looking for a place to open a Varieté theater.
Working with partners he created there what...
The Harlequin Hipsters is a collaborative performance collective whose aim is to honor, celebrate, and continue to evolve the rich
heritage of American social dance. Through the synthesis and reimagining...
What a pleasure to welcome these guys to town! Between them, they have many years in the business ... the business of juggling. We will see some comedy and clowning around but we're also going to see some...
The Heavenly Spies began as a little known cabaret/burlesque group titled: Ultra and the Satin Dolls by a group of eager-to-perform Cornish graduates in early 2004. In 2005 after many changes the defunct...
Helena Reynolds is an aerial artist and contemporary dancer, trained in aerial and contortion at the San Francisco Circus Centre and in Contemporary Dance and Ballet at the prestigious North Carolina School...
Born in Denmark, Henrik Bothe took a turn from the road to becoming an engineer and strayed down the performing lane in 1980. He now engineers clever and unusual ways of entertaining audiences all over...
Hilary is one of the founding members of the New York Goofs. They performed together in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space. She has gone on to be recognized as one of America’s...
As a boy growing up in Berlin, young Hilby exhibited no particular talents other than making funny faces at strangers and, as Hilby himself describes it, "breezing rhyzmically." When people began to call...
Our longtime friend, Hokum, was scheduled to perform in this year's Moisture Festival but he was tragically taken from us just after Valentine's Day.
Hokum W. Jeebs was a one-man musical theater. Out...
As one of their friends mentioned in a letter posted on their website, they do the things that they sing about in their songs. Horse Crazy Cowgirls sing and swing and have good fun on stage and off stage...
"Best of the Bay" dance company Hot Pink Feathers is in it's 10th year of Delighting the World, One Showgirl at a Time. The Feathers spread joy and wonder through their passionate and playful samba burlesque...
Iman Lizarazu is a world-class entertainer, juggler and physical commedian.
People who have seen Lizarazu on Bay Area and International stages already know the Santa Cruz resident is a unique performer.
As...
Jack & Jeri Kalvan say that the key to a happy marriage is being able to throw things at each other. This dynamic juggling/acrobatic duo has performed their amazing and odd skills (like synchronized flowerpot...
Jami is a performer that makes transformation appear simple, taking a traditionally classical instrument and morphing it into the source of a multi-dimensional range of expressive works. In the 28 years...
Jan grew up in central Maine and began performing at age twelve, juggling at children’s parties and events. He studied clowning with Maine residents (and Moisture Festival semi-regulars) Avner the Eccentric...
Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy) As specialists in Entertainment Law, we at Teeney and Tardy, Esq. have been proudly serving the industry for 25 years. In our offices at a former coffee roasterie...
Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years.
Janet...
Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years. Lynelle Sjoberg...
"Janna Wächter's sweet mezzo-soprano voice" one reviewer said "can be earthy or refined as she sees fit" and this might be an apt description of her contributions to musical and theatrical productions...
A One-Armed Juggler combining Circus Arts with Spoken Word to amaze, astound and inspire
audiences of all ages. Jason lost his arm in an electrical accident when he was six years old and while recuperating...
The Wikipedia entry on Jason Webley describes his music as a combination of folk, gypsy, and punk. It goes on to say that he quit his day job in the spring of 1998, hopped on a Greyhound bus with the intention...
Jay Alexander is the great grandson of the legendary vaudeville performer, Gentleman Ben Darwin. As a child, Jay found a trunk in his grandparents attic filled with magic and escapes. His interest in magic...
Born into a show biz family Jeanne formed her own sense of style as she trained to join the fun. She brought her act into the exploding European Varietè scene. Jeanne's stage sparkle called for something...
Jessie Sawyers has a unique blend of experience in both the entertainment industry and in business.
She began tap dancing at the age of eleven under the direction of Cheryl Johnson and Anthony Peters...
A modern dancer and former gymnast, Jill works to join those skills and sensibilities in performance as an aerialist. Known to Seattle audiences for her work with ticktock dance company, the Aerialistas...
The great Utah Phillips once said: "Jim Page's songs get right to the point. He looks at the world clearly and reports what he sees with compassion, humor and a biting sense of irony. And boy! can he sing...
Performing magic for children at the renowned Jewel Box Theater or for adults at famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, Joey Pipia can do it all and he can do it with grace and style. Joey is a very funny magician...
From out of the darkness, the kid shows, the supermarket openings … comes a force so disturbing, so twisted ... its hilarious!
Comic/Magician John Carney presents a very special appearance by Mr. Mysto,...
Johnny Fox is a legendary character among street performers, circus folk and the like. He's a New York City illusionist, lecturer, story teller and a famed sword swallower. Many of this generation of street...
Jonathan Rose’s interest in circus arts began in Mexico, where he was a roustabout in a small, family-owned circus. For several months he served as caretaker of the many exotic animals, including Maurice,...
Whip cracking, glass spinning, juggling, twirling, and polished entertaining … Joyce Rice is one of the two partners who make up Rice and Renee, a well known mother/daughter team who have been featured...
Whether walking up a stairway of blades, gliding along a slack rope, juggling pins, spinning crockery on sticks (for no known reason) or offering other circus-style feats Rhys Thomas’ climb-up, lay-down,...
Sexy meets circus! Bludgeoning audiences with wit, crushing them with whimsey, and tearing them a new laugh hole ... It's the Kamikaze Fireflies!
Rob Williams is a Moisture Festival favorite. He joined...
Born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Studio City, California, it surprises no one more than herself that after the 13-year college plan, odd jobs too numerous to mention and a foray into circus life,...
Karen has lived many incarnations. In previous lives she has juggled clubs and balls, breathed fire and more. In this one she's often a skilled western performer spinning tales, cracking whips, spinning...
After sailing the Caribbean galavanting and traveling, studying with Q'ero Shamans and Ayahuasqueros, chillin with SoulJahs, cruising the Amazon, holding a wild Macaw on the Tambopata, meditating at sunrise...
Kazüm's mission is to push the boundaries of perceived limitations, inspire ourselves and others to actualize dreams and to create more joy and beauty in the world through the medium of acrobalance, adagio,...
Kerri has been performing for her entire life. She started dancing at
age 3 and never stopped. Although her dancing has a foundation of
classical and contemporary training, her style embodies an
ethnic/urban...
Kevin is Creator and Host of the variety show Big Night Out on the Seattle Channel. With his wife Martha Enson he runs EnJoy Productions, which produces live entertainment for corporate and special events,...
Kevin was one of the original cast members of Seattle's acclaimed Teatro ZinZanni. He is a writer, director and producer whose work has led him overseas in addition to being a steady presence in Seattle's...
Kevin Murphy’s poetry is exuberant, comic and slightly mad, and comes from a place where stones are alive and potatoes talk. With nods to the beats, the bards, the surrealists and the blues, he accompanies...
LAURA STOKES is a zealous movement researcher, educator and performer. Always fascinated by the notion of embodied experience, she was a child gymnast, a teenage ballerina, and at one point, a budding...
From British Columbia: Beauty, Brawn, and Balance. That's what it's all about when Equilibrium Circus present PAZ and LEAH and they wiggle and giggle their way through a fun and often over enthusiastic...
Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein has performed his unique cowboy comedy show in 21 different countries around the world. You will see slapdash physical comedy and spoken comedy channeled through Louie’s modern...
Larry G Jones, Singing Impressionist - Comedian. The Temptations, Cher, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Elvis, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Rat Pack are just a small sample of the 75 plus voices Larry performs...
The name Lela is more than a play on the names of the founders; derived from two Sanskrit terms meaning "creation" and "creative spark", with references to "play," it denotes the spirit of the performance...
Linda Severt delivers an engaging, high-energy performance combining juggling, music, puppetry, and physical comedy. Linda has performed in hundreds of schools and at numerous festivals throughout the...
"The joy and wonder of the present moment", that's the phrase that refers, in much of her publicity, to Lindsay Benner's greatest talent ... bringing her audiences to that place. That's a great gift. Lindsay's...
When Lo-Lo takes the stage, the audience immediately becomes caught up in the excitement of it all. As her juggling clubs maneuver magically through the air, nothing of the years of hard work is visible...
Louie Foxx celebrated his interest in childish pursuits even before the birth of his child gave him "... a valid excuse to go to the zoo once a week and build forts out of the sofa cushions." He spent...
Luke Wilson shows that it is possible to redefine juggling without sacrificing technique.
Whether manipulating 1 club or 5, using hands, feet or face; his juggling is laid-back yet dynamic, understated...
Amanda Crockett and Shayna Swanson are each working solo at this year's Moisture Festival (see their separate bios on this page) working together they will present a Duo Frame aerial performance. The acts...
Magical Mystical Michael’s illusive and elusive logic still has some of his closest friends scratching their heads and laughing. You’ll see many of Michael’s friends at the Moisture Festival, he’s an easy...
Renowned 13th century explorer, Marco Polo has been stuck here in the "future" for a few years now, but instead of curling up like a roly poly he has decided to make the best of his predicament by dedicating...
Contortionist, hula-hoop performer, dancer and aerialist Maria Margiyeva is a world-class performer who will be joining us in 2012 if she is granted a visa to perform in the USA. Her skills include those...
A master, indeed! This noted Northwest performer has traveled the world assuming and shedding a series of engaging characters in an unending effort to give a unique and humorous twist to the ancient art...
Matt Baker is a Guinness World Record holder, was voted Seattle's Funniest Prop Comic and has performed his comedy stunt show in over 14 different countries. He's appeared on numerous television show including...
Matt Gordon has been delighting audiences with his fiddle ,
harmonica, and feet for the last 20 years. He has toured extensively in the U.S.A. ,
Canada and the U.K. As a member of "Footworks Percussive...
At 11 years old, Matt was inspired to learn juggling after seeing the Flying Karamazov Brothers on an HBO special. He then set a goal for himself: to make it to the finals in international juggling competition....
Michael Carbonaro is an American actor who was born in New York, New York. In 2003, he kicked off his film career starring as Mikey Falcone in A Tale of Two Pizzas alongside Vincent Pastore and Frank Vincent,...
One the best show drummers on any circuit, ask any of the many vaudeville/Varietè acts who’ve done their turn with his support from the band pit. Michael’s coming in from Berlin for the Festival and,...
Variously identified as a visual comic, performance artist, new vaudevillian, mime (gasp), physical comedian, storyteller, magician, and fool, he claims only to be a clown...and not a very traditional...
In Mildred, Tash Wesp has created a character who can simultaneously chastise, worry, and delight an audience. Everyone's eccentric aunt, Mildred Hodittle, wearing one of her signature turquoise outfits...
One reviewer called their music "wonderful, ... irreverent, purposefully silly, very sophisticated ..." Another said "these stellar musicians have stepped up and into a musical circle where only a few...
Travel back in time to the earliest days of the Jazz Age with Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators.
The Seattle-based quartet faithfully recreates the vintage jazz of the early 1920s to the mid '30s --...
AKA Doloreze Leonard
European Weekly referred to hers as “a voice that Louis Armstrong would have envied.”
Business Woman Magazine called her a “French Canadian girl who blossomed into perhaps one...
As a young man Moeppi (a German nickname for Myron) left his home in Muenster, Germany to join his father in the family craft ... making people laugh. Moeppi's father, Hacki Ginda (see his bio on this...
Cold Steel and Hot Licks!
Fire breather/sword swallower, Moz, grew up in a family that had been in circus but had settled down by the time he came along. Not Moz though … he contacted an uncle who...
This will be his first year at Seattle's Moisture Festival. Mr. Spin is noted in the world of juggling performance for ... wait, let me let Reg Bolton say it: "The legendary Mr. Spin from Adelaide, Australia...
Masters of levity is several senses of the term. Mudbay has brought their innovative approach to juggling for over 30 years now. They’ve passed some of their knowledge and experience on while passing clubs....
Muriel Jasmine Rose Olivier, Age four, debuted her trapeze act at last
year's Moisture Festival and is back this year with a new, advanced routine.
Having trained on the trapeze since age 1, Muriel currently...
The NANDA experience is a high-energy, unrelenting blast of action and excited humor. You will be enraptured by this dynamic show, a tidal wave of acrobatics, dance, juggling and crazy Kung Fu acro-fighting,...
He is a natural physical comedian and eccentric dance aficionado. An endlessly talented clogger, tap and swing dancer, juggler, roller skater and clown. Dedicated to the art of play, Cooper explores physical...
Whether he's bringing us gas propelled Johnny Jetpack speeding skyward at 50+ mph (in about one second), or YouTube favorites Flaming Anus or the incredible and hilarious Cordless Drill Breakdance, Nathan...
He moves in darkness, this man of mystery. Silent as the shadows themselves and yet we understand him. His mission? To enlighten the dim. Wish to know more? Follow his link.
Their vaudeville variety shows run 2 - 2 1/2 hours and often include everything from comediennes to jugglers and tap dancers, from rap singers to rope-spinners and bubble-blowers and from poets and magicians...
A native of Chicago, Nich's skills include several forms of acrobatics and aerial work. He will perform in Burlesque this year on a gymnastic device known in America as the German Wheel. The large rolling...
In a recent blog posting Orville Johnson had this to say about performing with Casey MacGill: "I'm getting used to playing rocking' New Orleans style music every Monday night with my pal Casey MacGill...
Pi is a physical comedy troupe devoted to exploring the world and examining life’s mysteries through a lens of wonder. Six clowns currently comprise the ensemble Pi, which was founded at the University...
Circus Contraption's vocalist, trumpet strumpet, dancer, Opera Diva, costumer and volunteer coordinator is described on that troupe's website as one who "makes men swoon" with her siren song and we've...
Many Seattleites, familiar with PK's unforgettable music and stage presentations believe that he's a native of the Northwest. The same could be said of people in the other towns where he's spent time playing...
Poppy is a character created by Lara Paxton, co-founder, artistic director of Seattle’s own Circus Contraption. She appreciates the unexpected, the dark, the disturbing, and the non sequitur. Shredded...
Poppy Daze (Lara Lee Rasberry) performs locally, nationally and
internationally on a variety of aerial apparatus, including her
signature anchor. She is the founder and director of the Aerialistas.
Considered...
Andrew Pulkrabek is the Prince of Pain. Lying on a bed of nails, having a cinder block smashed on his chest, escaping from a straight jacket ... why does he do it? Why did he end up in that straight jacket...
Is it real? Can fleas be trained? Is that a tiny circus? What do they eat? Do you really want to know?
After much research into those and other questions this is Rob D’Arc’s educated hunch on the lives...
Is it real? Can fleas be trained? Is that a tiny circus? What do they eat? Do you really want to know?
After much research into those and other questions this is Rob D’Arc’s educated hunch on the lives...
We eagerly anticipate the imminent arrival of the good professor as he makes his ambagious way across the country from his home in Springfield, Massachusetts. Noted for his topical and timely instruction...
The Puppet Guy is Lee Zimmerman. Yes, it's Zimmer-man - strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Zimmer-man, who can change the course...
The Quiddlers are International Ambassadors of Physical Comedy. They started out in the mid-1980s as The Marauding Miners and they are still going strong with worldwide performances of their unique costumes,...
Originally from Los Angeles, Quynbi is a Seattle-based aerialist, dancer, model,
multimedia visual artist and licensed skydiver. She has performed her sensuous
aerial silks acts at notable venues such...
Classically trained in ballet since the age of three, Rachel is a ballerina turned aerialist and innovative variety performer. Modern, belly dance, and lyrical jazz make up some of her versatile background,...
As one of the most sought after acts on the corporate entertainment scene, they appear annually at over 100 events across America and internationally. Since 1982 their intelligent mayhem has earned them...
Rebecca, an aerialist and actor, is sought after for her strength and grace in the air. Her 15 years of experience in theatre and aerial arts has fueled her production of innovative aerial theatre shows....
From Santa Cruz, California, the Red Wine Sisters were spotted by Moisture Festival organizers while performing at an event entitled: Keep Santa Cruz Weird. They seemed to be helping greatly with that...
As Seattle's premiere sawplayer, Reggie's exploration into the eerie tones and subtle timbre of the musical saw, and his uncanny ability to flex the hand tool's razor sharp spring steel betwixt quivering...
Reid Belstock began juggling at the age of 15, as a way of overcoming gross and fine motor skill impairment. Following high school, Reid went off to study with Ringling Brothers, and Barnum and Bailey...
Richard Hartnell's contact juggling performance showcases the art form's ethereal fluidity. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, this particular sphere charmer shocks and amazes audiences...
Rick Ruskin started playing guitar in 1962 and in just one year became a respected professional musician in his native Detroit, Michigan. In 1964, while still in Jr. High School, he was chosen to open...
Weaving delicate metaphor with jaw dropping spectacle, Ricochet's unique style of poetic acrobatics has taken the world by storm. Based in the mountains of rural New Mexico, they combine lyric physicality,...
Dynamic Comedy. Comic Stunts. What could possibly go wrong? Rob Lok is an international variety performer and contemporary clown. Slapstick gags and high-octane circus skills have made his shows in demand...
Whether he's changing his clothes, setting the table, or just sitting down, Rob Torres has a unique way of finding absurdity in everyday tasks.
His award winning international comedy has made Rob one...
No telling what he has planned this time but the last time we saw this character perform at the Moisture Festival his act consisted of removing meat from plastic packages, peeling plastic wrap off of cheese,...
Rod Ferrone has received critical acclaim worldwide for his unique blend of tap dance, comedy, song and hat tricks. He was 1/2 of the critically acclaimed tap/comedy duo Hot Foot. His company Feet 2...
There are many people whose hard work and creativity makes the Moisture Festival happen but there is one without whom it wouldn't have been an option. Ron W. Bailey is an entertainer, band leader, singer,...
Ronn Lucas has been entertaining fans for more than a decade with his incredible, unique talent. The ultimate entertainer, Lucas mixes stand-up comedy, improvisation, audience interaction and astonishing...
René Bibaub is a five-time world champion, ESPN commentator and former artist and coach of Cirque Du Soleil. We will present René as the dynamic entertainer that she is but she will, no doubt, carry with...
If the United States grants him a Visa to perform in our country we will proudly present, in 2012, Rubberband Boy. This act of facial contortion and pogo stick straight jacket escapology has been viewed...
Ruby Joyce has performed as the torch bearer for the Olympic opening ceremonies of the Moisture Festival 2008. Her aerial hoop and trapeze acts have been seen at the Oregon Country Fair, Gravity of Kindness,...
Run For Your Life!'s mission is to make people laugh. Their abstract comedy has no malice or agenda, and their satirical dances point up universal human (or non-human) foibles.
Erica, Marta, and Nick met in 2009 while coaching at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. In their hours between coaching classes they combine their acrobatic and creative talents to put together...
Sally has exercised a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with...
The School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA) is Seattle’s premier circus school with classes for kids and adult. Founded in 2004 by Executive Director Jo Montgomery and Program Director Chuck...
Sara Felder is a solo theater artist, playwright and juggler. While the themes of her plays and performances are serious, her form is comic, engaging, vaudevillian. She strives to integrate personal...
sara sparrow came to modern circus through a background in gymnastics, music, theater, and visual art. In addition to her ongoing romance with the trapeze, she is one half of 'levity', a quirky duo acrobatic...
Sasha Harrington is a San Francisco based performer who does beautiful solo work when she is not performing with her partner Chloe Gordon-Murer as City Circus (also featured at this year's Moisture Festival...
Whether Scot is working in theater, at a party or on the small or large screen (he was in Adam Sandler's “You Don't Mess with the Zohan” and Christinea Aguilera's music video “Hurt” among other productions)...
When Shannon performs, one thing is always clear - she loves to move. Having been involved with many different forms of movement her entire life, she discovered the circus arts only a few years back. For...
Shayna Swanson has created and performed "truly heart-felt and creative" (Chicago Reader) aerial works for over 13 years. After attending Circus Maniacs (Bristol, England), intensively studing aerial hoop,...
Shersten Finley discovered trapeze studying aerial dance with Do Jump Movement Theatre in Portland Oregon. She appeared as an aerialist in shows with Do Jump including: Now (2002) and Gaviotas (2004)....
Shoehorn is an original performance artist who creates music with his feet and dances with his horn. Michael Shoehorn Conley has combined organic body rhythms and sophisticated jazz forms and concepts...
Trained in Russian acrobatics since the age of six, Simon is a master performer in the circus ring or a cabaret stage. Born and raised in San Francisco, he chose staff manipulation as his primary art form,...
Simon cuts an elegant figure as he hosts Moisture Festival shows in his Utilikilt and East End, London accent (modified to allow Americans to understand). Simon's sense of comedy harkens back to Music...
What do you get when you mix one part bellydance, one part Fosse and one part Bond Girl? Leslie Rosen's Sirens of Serpentine! They will shake it! You will be stirred!
The Sisters will be joining Moisture Festival this year for the first time.
Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters.
Never had to have a chaperone, "No sir".
We're here to keep our...
The brilliant vaudevillian, Ed Wynn, once said "A comedian is not a man who says funny things. A comedian is one who says things funny." As, variously, a solo performer (Samwise, Juggler Intraordinaire,)...
Physical comedian and maniacal goofball Reid Belstock and innovative juggling ace and straight man Warren Hammond have teamed up to bring you their hilarious and incredible new show, Smirk!
Described...
Snake Suspenderz, a quartet featuring vocals, ukulele, trombone, guitar,
tuba and drums, call their music "cartoon jazz." They play a
relentlessly quirky blend of novelty songs and hits of the 1920's...
Ten gallon funny-man Sourdough Slim, transports us to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp and cowboy lore intermingle to produce grins galore.
Slim, aka Rick Crowder, is a well traveled veteran...
In Greg Palmer's brilliant PBS documentary, "Vaudeville", he presented a montage of old film clips and speculated dryly "Vaudeville audiences loved watching things spin." He would have loved this act....
Splinter Dance Company's mission is to extend thought-provoking dance performances to a broad range of audiences; making dance accessible to the public using site-specific work as well as maintaining artistically...
Squirrel Butter are a Seattle duo made up of Charlie Beck and Charmaine Slaven. These two musicians (both are also performers with the band The Tallboys) perform traditional and original music influenced...
Steel Dolls is the collaborative effort of Sydney Lovelle, Julia Schimmel, and Allie Cooper. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the trio draws upon backgrounds in dance, circus, and gymnastics to produce...
Stefan Haves directed the world-renowned dinner/circus Teatro Zinzanni and is Cirque Du Soleil’s North American "Clown Scout," responsible for casting clowns, conducting workshops, and assistant directing...
As a founding member of the acclaimed UMO Ensemble and performer for New York’s Big Apple Circus, Steffon is embedded in a network of amazing performers and artists, and has performed and created in almost...
Stevie Coyle's dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville, his mother played in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s and his father ran a radio station in southern California and brought home...
Living and performing in the United States since 1998 this magical married couple came to us from Bulgaria where Ekaterina trained and performed as a ballerina with the Bulgarian State Opera Production...
Sunga was raised on a diet of musical theater, 70s folk revival, funk and the Beatles. In other words, she has been genre-confused since childhood. Then she heard Mildred Bailey and her life was changed...
The Super8s are a favorite Moisture Festival band. They are back again in 2012 to smooth out the transitions or make them lumpy if that's what makes more sense.
The Sweaty Pies are a tasty treat being prepared by some of Seattle's premier aerial artists especially for the first year of Georgetown Moisture Festival shows. Working with the unique and challenging...
Tamara "The Trapeze Lady" has been gayly spreading love and glitter
around the world since 1992. Her aerial education includes early work
with Robert Davidson and classes at the San Fransisco Circus...
Tank is a nimble performer who brings both a wicked and beautiful side of circus onto the stage. She is a dancer turned aerialist, who has travelled clear across the globe in her quest to perform just...
Classically trained as a ballet dancer & aerialist, Tanya escapes the confines of linear performance with her playful intuition and indulgent savagery. With a striking aesthetic of whimsical lines, thoughtful...
Tanya is a professional aerialist and contemporary circus performer based out of Vancouver, B. C. A gymnast since age 9, contemporary circus proved to be a more natural outlet for Tanya's creativity and...
Having languished long enough in higher education, Terry Crane finally surrendered to restless urges that lead him to walk calmly away with the circus at the tender age of 20. Since then, his thirst for...
The Cabiri is a Seattle-based aerial dance troupe, specialize in 'performative mythology', theatrical depiction of tales from folklore and mythology. Utilizing modern and aerial dance, stilt walking, physical...
Thomas Truman John is the creator of the San Francisco Bay Area's "children's show for adults". A blend of humor, skill, and wit that leaves them laughing and wondering if that was meant for adults, or...
Seattle favorites (and internationally known) aerialists Rachel Nehmer & Ben Wendel of Duo Madrona have been working together with the fabulous aerialist Terry Crane (see separate bio under his name) to...
Knock 'em down, drag 'em out, laugh till you cry slapstick sketch comedy. Think: Buster Keaton meets Robin Williams. He co-founded two international touring comedy troupes: Mountain Mime and Klown Shoes....
Tom has done something unique in show business ... he created a new kind of act. When Tom Noddy first took his performance of Bubble Magic onto the Tonight Show in the early '80s (the first of 3 such performances...
Founded in 2007 by classical composer Harlan Glotzer, the Toy-Box Trio is devoted to helping audiences experience through-composed music in an entirely different way. The pairing of concertina, toy piano,...
Baltimore's Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey are an award-winning,
acrobatic burlesque superduo who have been making fun sexy and sexy fun
since 2002. Described as "smart, funny and dumb in all...
Recently referred to as "a circus that plays music", the Tune Stranglers have been entertaining audiences across the West since 2003. With a smorgasbord of stringed instruments, washboard and the occasional...
In the past seventeen years, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative, compelling and critically acclaimed performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. The Ensemble has performed...
Uncle Bonsai performs original, contemporary folk/pop music. With their soaring and intricate 3-part vocal harmonies and biting humor, accompanied by only an acoustic guitar, Arni Adler, Patrice O'Neill,...
An aerial affair presented by Martha Enson of the UMO Ensemble and Cathy Sutherland of the Aerialistas and Du Caniveaux. They mix beauty, poetry, and strength in their stunning act on the vertical rope....
The Velones: Martha Enson (founding member of UMO Ensemble and former performer and director with Teatro Zinzanni) and Cathy Sutherland (of the Du Caniveaux and the Aerialistas) have performed together...
Swing into the New Year with the ultra smooth stylings of Vic & Nick, featuring two members of the award winning musical group, "The Bobs"; Vic, also known as Matthew Bob, along with Richard Bob on bass....
Vivian Tam, once known as Maxine Meringue while she performed with The Aerialistas, Seattle's original girl gang, is now offering a solo program that features a stunning performance with the tissu. The...
Wang Hong’s name translates into English as “rainbow” and the spectrum of talents that she employs in her performance are as beautiful and delicate as that ephemeral play of light. She was raised in the...
Warren is an exciting performer based in Boulder, CO who seamlessly blends the disparate arts of juggling, comedy and sideshow! After learning to juggle in his hometown of Roanoke, VA he has gone to college,...
Won Israel is recognized internationally for his visual performance style. He is a protégé of legendary Pantomime Artist Marcel Marceau and he has traveled and toured the world performing his brand of...
As seen on David Letterman, they hold a Guinness World Record, a 2008 Yo-Yo World Champion title, and have performed in over 20 countries.
Who would have thought you could make an entire show out...
The Zebra Kings are the house band for each of 2013's Moisture Festival Burlesque shows. As you can imagine, some of the band members will miss having their regular springtime positions around the watering...
Zero Boy is a Vocal Cartoonist. From his New York base, Zero Boy has written, directed and performed numerous productions on both coasts and Europe, working in traditional theater, stand up comedy, television,...
Who out of the 6 billion people on this planet can juggle seven balls, invent very funny stories on the spot, and recite the location of every zip code in America and abroad? Meet David Rosdeitcher, an...
This is a cropped photo of a small fraction of the many volunteers that worked together to staff the Moisture Festival a few years back. Some of these friends will be back this year, some can't and will...
