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MissingLinkProductions Newsletter March 2003...
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Welcome to the March (and belated February) Missing Link Newsletter.
I hope all of you are having a fantastic 2003 so far.
January was an extremely busy month for us, catching up with everything
on our return from Japan and coping with an extraordinarily busy
month.
The lack of February newsletter was due to the fact that I worked
right through Xmas and New Year and I needed some sunshine. I
have just spent a very relaxing few weeks in India - though it already
feels like a long time ago!
At the end of January we exhibited at The Events Show where our
performers got fantastic responses. A huge thank you to our
star magician Magic
Matt, the ever enthusiastic and flattering Complimentary
Complements Service, stunning juggler and ball spinner
Sam Veale, the ever gorgeous Sweet Fairy Nika, the
elegance of the Still
Living Statues, the ever sexy moulin rouge stilt girls
from Aerial Roots,
fun and interactive juggling and walkabout from Browner,
playful magic from Robin Fox, the beautiful stilt creations of The
Wrong Size and last but not least, our wonderful ladies
creating their own storm at the show, The Wind People from Rin
Tin Tin.
I just managed to get off the plane from holiday when I was straight
into the National Wedding Show. Our stand attracted lots of
great attention for people wanting to add something extra special
to their special day. Our fantastic entertainers at this show
were the wonderful caricaturist Sarah Bailey from Caricatures
Galore, Complimentary
Complements Service had Lu and I in stitches, every
mother in law's favourite robot Arbie
(he is SUCH a charmer), the ever dextrous Sam
Veale, beautiful human statues from Still
Living Statues, , the tallest stilt walking bride Trouble
and Strife, circus workshops and walkabout from The
Wobbly Juggling Company, the wonderful rent-a-granny
team from Los Kaos,
the hilarious Bridie from Rin
Tin Tin is the best stilt walking waitress you could
ever have at your wedding, and the ultimate guest for any event,
the very sensitive Cyberstein
who was getting very into the emotion of the event and squirting
tears everywhere..
A big congratulations to Danny from
The Complimentary
Complements Service and Circo
Ridiculoso, The
Wrong Size for being awarded grants by The Circus
Development Project whilst I was away. Congratulations also
to mime artists and human statues The
Electric Cabaret for their grant to produce a new show.
A couple of mentions of shows coming up in London for those of you
with free evenings. Our very own trapeze artist Layla
is starring in Shunt's production 'Dance Bear Dance' which won the
Time Out Live Awards 2003 and is on until 11th May, 9pm Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays at Railway Arch, 12a Gales Gardens, close
to Bethnal Green tube, E2. The Telegraph quoted the show as
"like being inside the head of a drunken genius".
The lovely Gavin Marshall has directed a new show by Linda
Marlowe about the world's oldest wire-walker, who, upon the eve
of her hundreeth birthday, looks back at her many careers as daring
divorcee, raunchy rock chick, undercover operator, Amazonian adventurer,
manic mother and professional free spirit. This can be seen
at the Hackney Empire March 14th and 15th.
There is a very special opportunity for performers wishing to do
their bit to make people less fortunate than themselves smile. Bill
Brookman is organising a festival of street theatre in Kosovo 12th
- 26th July this year.. Performers would need to find their
own air fare (£150 - £350) and minimal expenses (about
£50). For anyone interested please contact us or Bill
directly.
A good cause closer to home for those of you who are interested
is 'Big Arts Week' which is 30th June - 4th July. Anyone wishing
to do workshops in schools during this time, please let me know.
An apology for an omission in our last newsletter. On our
trip to Japan in December as well as all our fantastic performers,
we also took our wonderful rigger Will Cleary. Sorry you were
not mentioned before Will, it must have been the jetlag...
Web Site
Fantastic feathers and diamonds close up magician Romany
has some new pictures on her page of the website.
The gorgeous sword swallower and female oddity Miss
Behave has new pictures and information about her street
show on the site.
Aerialist Petra Lange
also has some beautiful new pictures of her act on her page.
Flamenco dancers Alma Flamenca have changed their company name to
Maya Flamenca,
and they have also added some new pictures to their page.
Last but not least Los
Kaos have some new quotes on their page.
Gig of the Month
Gig of the month and another huge thank you to caricaturist Andy
Davey and human statue Pamela Sinclair from Still
Living Statues for performing at the Confetti Wedding
Store for us to potential newly weds.
Quote of the Month
Quote of the month comes from the book I am currently reading and
seems particularly appropriate to my recent holiday and the amount
of emails I came back to:
"Such a long, long time to be gone...
and a short time to be there"
Robert Hunter
One last huge thank you to Lu and James for running everything
so well whilst I was away, enabling me to have a really relaxing
holiday and keep me off their backs!
Wishing you all a very peaceful and happy month,
Warmest Regards
Anna
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