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RECENTLY, as in October 2023, I birthed a new butohclown piece “Two Treasures” around flower, earth and ritual. It started as a butoh dance at Harupin Ha’s annual showcase with music/ambience created by Yogetsu Agasaka’s beat boxing, looping and chanting the Heart Sutra.
Since then, I’ve been transforming it into butohclown, inviting my YooWho into the piece. “Two Treasures was first performed at Seattle’s Moisture Festival and the Montreal Clown Festival (2024). It continues to evolve as i perform it occasionally. Here is an abstraction of the piece as created by Peter Cunningham with Ara Fitzgerald on second camera.
My Story
Truth be told, I had little idea I could be funny until I started street performing as a juggler in Europe in the summer of 1981. At the time, I had grown disenchanted with the ‘working world’ and was determined to discover an alternate pathway in life … Two years later, I quit my job at Merrill Lynch and drove to Montreal where I found the perfect spot to evolve my funny…
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Upcoming training and workshops
Hogfarm Hideway Music Festival
Mr. YooWho will be performing at the Hogfarm Hideway festival. More information soooon.
Sacred Mischief Training
Levity Strategies for Daily Life & Turbulent Times
If the world is feeling a bit Topsy-turvy these days (or not) and you are wishing for:
-some trickster tools to pull out of your pocket,
-to invoke your sense of humor to manage what the world is throwing at you
-to conjure up a taste of lightness amidst heavy loads and loud voices…
Heilig Unfug October 2025
Heiliger Unfug.
Gleichmut und die acht weltlichen Winde des Buddhismus
In der heutigen, von vielen Ereignissen bewegten Welt ist es nicht so einfach, das Gleichgewicht zu bewahren. Während die Lebenskräfte uns gleichzeitig in viele Richtungen ziehen, entdecken und erproben Sie in diesem Workshop Werkzeuge der Widerstandsfähigkeit, des Gleichmuts und des Humoristischen…..
A little show at the Albergue de Iztapalap
This show occurs soon after the big 2017 Mexico City earthquake. Mexico City October 31st, 2017 Today’s show was in the Albergue de Iztapalap, on the outer skirts of Mexico City, an area right on...
Buddha’s Birthday. BohdiSong’s ClownZen
Please enjoy a description of what BhodiSong (a.k.a. LooneyTune) created as a Humor-full performance ritual to follow the Zen Center of Los Angeles’ celebration service of Buddha’s Birthday…....
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