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Our most frequently referred site - Dube Juggling, in New York, has basic bullwhips suitable for learning, top-of-the-line diabolos, poi, and all the juggling equipment you could ever want.
Barry Cordage and Equipment is a great place for stock items and custom-built. You can buy silks, hoops, and all the rigging you could ever want to hang it. Plus, if you're planning on staging an Alpine rescue mission, this is the place!
At Custom Built Equipment in Xenia, Ohio, you can get everything from a big-cat performance ring cage to the handloops used in the Aerial Angels show. Tell 'em we sent you!
Schools, Workshops, and Training
Ecole de Cirque, in Chambery, France, runs workshops and courses from age 4 recreation programs all the way to serious professional training including a diploma in circus studies.
From their site: "The Circus Arts training centre is meant for young people who are looking for vocational training : Education courses include all circus technical skills: high-level acrobatic techniques and performance, aerial awareness and techniques, juggling and manipulation, equilibristics ; along with artistic exploration : dance, body rhythmics, body language, theatre, manners of playing ; and courses in anatomy, physiology, social and labour law, History of Circus, History of Music and Dance, son et lumière technics, making-up arts, search for employment technics, personal life investigation."
Circommedia, in Bristol, England, is an advanced training school that offers a diploma and professional programs.
From their site: "Circomedia is the leading centre in Britain for circus with physical theatre. It is the only centre of its kind in Britain where the core staff are qualified teachers. It has developed its own Diploma in Circus and Physical Theatre and is the only centre offering this qualification.
We run intensive training courses for people who want to develop an imaginative and innovative approach to circus and physical theatre, balancing technique training with the nurturing of creativity and expression. At Circomedia, our training approach recognises the needs of a new generation of performers wanting to combine circus with dance, theatre, cabaret and street theatre and to ground them in physical technique and skill."
The Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre offers a certificate and an MFA in physical theatre in year-long and two-year programs. They also host the Mad River festival of physical and ensemble theatre shows, and terrific summer workshops in material creation, commedia, clown, physical theatre, mask, women's theatre, and much more. Highly recommended.
From their site: "Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre professional actor-training program is the only one of its kind in the U.S., attracting students from all over the world to sutdy with outstanding artists, in a fulltime 1 year program, summer workshops, and a new, 2 and a half year MFA program in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre. The program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre.
The program includes intense physical training to develop the expressive capabilities of the actor, the study of mask, clown, melodrama, and commedia, and ongoing research into the process of making theatre."
Photographers
Terry Wilson is a terrific photographer who shot some great pictures of us
at Newport on the Levee.
Performers
3 Pints Gone are good friends of ours, even though we shaved Bill's chest in order to set his nipple on fire...
The Limey Birds are a fantastic group of girls, and talented performers as well!
Zoltan the Adequate is a Toronto-based magician who does both freak-out and classy magic shows.
Fun and Irrelevant
This site was shared with Isabella by her brother Ronn. Only go there if you have a
few minutes to think a lot.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Sam Sugar writes thoughtfully about porn, politics and the politics of porn. He's safe for work viewing, but his sponsor's ads aren't. Move in the left frame :)
Boing Boing is a compendium of the touching, unique, and merely strange. When Isabella first saw it, there were sections on Bluetooth communication between the sexes in gender-segregated Saudi Arabia, viral marketers abusing Wikipedia, and goth reinterpretation of Martha Stewart's home decorating tips.
The Stranger is our favorite source for Dan Savage's column and his other writings about politics and gender.
Free Will is the best astrology anywhere. If you're into that kind of thing. Which we are.
Cecil, God of Knowledge, answers arcane questions and provides knowledge ranging from Schrodinger's Cat to whether you get wetter running or walking through the rain.
Isabella has an on-again, off-again affair with origami. She's folding her way to 1000 cranes, as well as directing a Japanese play that involved the actors folding about 3000 cranes each time the show went up! The best Japanese paper site on the web is Paper Jade.
Edward Gorey created some extremely macabre picture books. At The Gashleycrumb Tinies, A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil, assaulted by bears. There's a whole alphabet...
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