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MissingLinkProductions Newsletter January 2004...
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Happy New Year to you all and welcome to the first Missing Link
Newsletter of 2004.
The Xmas party season kept us on our toes! I hope you thoroughly
enjoyed your parties and festivities.
You may have seen the wonderfully versatile Richard from Electric Cabaret on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny being Father
Time for us with a large clock for a head. Thanks to Richard (and
his neighbour) for the miraculously quick costume.
This week I shall be working at the Motor Show in Delhi with synchronised
juggling act Feeding the
Fish .Thom, Julie and this weeks new kid, Mikey Martins
from Three Monkey Productions
will be in the office as usual but we may be a bit more slow on
emails, so it may be best to telephone us over the next fortnight.
As soon as I return we are straight into the Events Show at Olympia,
where we look forward to meeting lots of you and putting faces to
names. Brand new for the Events Show and for 2004 we have a new
brochure out. If you would like a copy of this please drop us an
email to new_brochure_please@circusperformers.com.
Congratulations to Roger Bunnage, the man behind our most charming
robot Arbie,
who has just gained his black belt in ju-jitsu. Arbie however is
not so keen and is happy to stick to his patent leather one.
On a more serious performers note this month, we are on a mission
this January to collect copies of everyone’s risk assessment
and insurance documents as lots of them expired at the end of the
year and our paperwork is not up to date. As you all know, we only
get asked for risk assessments ten minutes before they are needed.
It will therefore make all our lives a lot easier throughout the
summer if we can get this sorted now. “Risk Assessment, what’s
that look like?” we hear you ask. Well, ask us and we will
send you a sample. THEN write your own and email it to us. NOW,
please.
Web Site
We are on a continued mission to plough through the backlog of
things to go up on the website (to correlate with our new brochure).
New to the website this month we have Cirque
Bijou with an amazingly large wardrobe or stilt costumes
and entertainers for every event.
There are lots of new pictures for acts on the site this month too.
Our sexiest stilt walkers, the bouncing goat boys and girls and
breath taking balancers Heir
of Insanity have some new pictures on their page of
the site.
We have new pictures of our most flattering walkabout act The
Complimentary Compliments Service comedy waiters with
a surreal twist.
There are new pictures of our favourite cabaret act Caroline
Parker,our amazing cabaret signed-song performer with
pictures of her dynamic act.
There are new pics of Circo
Rum Ba Ba's walkabout water themed stilts and act on
their page of the site.
Acrobatic duo Fizziks
have some new pictures of the versatile act added to the site.
The wonderfully funny comedy jugglers and monochrome walkabout act
Curious Eyebrows
have pictures of their street shows and cabaret acts.
Animalistic balancers and walkabout creatures from Bolli
Darling are now on the site.
Our favourite street artist Jon
Hicks has some new pictures of his truly unique street
show.
Comedy Marilyn act Helen
Kane has some pictures of her comedy tribute show 'Some
Like it Hotter' on the site.
Our favourite fakir pixie girl Kamelyan
has pictures of her Moulin Rouge with a twist piercing and fire
show as well as pictures of her stilt costumes added to her page.
There are also pictures of Kwabana
Lindsay and his rope walking and fire breathing which
are new on the site.
And finally we have added a page of all our water themed performers
to the themes section of the website to make those water theme parties
that little bit easier to plan.
Featured Performer of the Month
A new section of the newsletter and a new section on the website
is our Featured Performers area.
There are such a lot of high quality acts on the website it may
be easy to miss some very talented performers.
We have created a Featured Performers section to profile performers
who we not only enjoy watching but those who are always a pleasure
to work with. The Featured Performers section is not the performers
sales pitches but our own personal recommendations.
We launched this feature with the act who have so many incarnations
and fantastic walkabout characters they inspired me to redesign
the performers listing pages of the site a few months ago Brink
of Distinction
One of my favourite acts to watch playing and interacting with the
crowds at parties. I have never yet seen Brink of Distinction perform
without leaving a trail of smiles behind them.
Their video shows how easily the Giant Penguins initiate a real
sense of play in the streets - especially with the children, something
I feel it is quite hard to evoke these days.
The Giant Garden Gnomes have a fantastic surreal naughtiness to
them. Seeing them wondering around with their fishing rods and cheekily
filling up their lunch boxes with free cake samples at a stand at
the wedding fair made me grin from ear to ear.
They also have a new act, The Guide to Poise and Perfection, where
three very elegant ladies glide around the room showing off the
art of balancing a jelly upon one's head. If you are looking for
something original for a glamorous event, these suave ladies have
to be the height of sophistication.
Quote of the Month
Quote of the Month this month was a lovely comment sent to me by
our lovely female close-up magic diva Romany,
who in a fantastic Xmas spirit send me:
"Life is short. Eat dessert first."
Happy New Year to you all and may 2004 be happy, healthy and prosperous.
Anna
MissingLinkProductions
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