9th edition of the Artivist Sailing. Performance and Social Theater

9th edition of the Artivist Sailing. Performance and Social Theater

During the 9th edition of the Artivist Sailing we will sail through the Performance and Social Theater in Bilbao (Pabellón Nº6) with Jennifer Miller, Circus Amok founder and artistic director (circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice).

September 22 2016, Thursday; 18:00-21:00.

We will create a circle of dialogue with Jennifer Miller, creator and director of Circus Amok.

September 23 2016, Friday; 15:00-20:00.

We will do a Laboratory session with Jennifer Miller. We will prepare a participatory performance that will be played after the workshop.

Where: Pabellón Nº6 Ribera de Deusto Kalea, 47, 48014 Bilbo (Bizkaia)

Circus Amok

Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City. Directed and founded by Jennifer Miller, the group has been together since 1989, bringing its funny, queer, caustic and sexy, political, one-ring spectacles to diverse neighborhoods throughout the city. Traditional circus skills — tight rope walking, juggling, acrobatics, stilt walking, clowning — are combined with new dance, lifesize puppetry, music old and new, improvisational practices, and fractured narrative, creating new meanings for circus while continuing to entertain crowds of all ages throughout the city streets, gardens, parks, and playgrounds. Circus Amok invites the audience to envision a more empowered life of community interaction while enjoying a queer celebratory spectacle.

Jennifer Miller

Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer Miller has been working with alternative circus forms, theater, and dance, and for over twenty years. She is the recipient of the 2008 Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Her work with Circus Amok was awarded a ‘Bessie’ (a New York Dance and Performance Award) in 1995 and an OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a French documentary film, “Un Cirque a New York” 2002 and Brazilian documentary, “Juggling Politics” 2004. She has performed with Cathy Weis, Jeff Weis, Jenny Monson, John Jasperse, Johanna Boyce, Doug Elkns, and They Won’t Shut-up among others. She had a seven year stint at Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore.

She toured her solo shows Morphadyke and Free Toasters Everyday here and abroad. Miller has been invited to speak on numerous academic panels and conferences on issues of gender and representation and has also appeared on such national TV talk shows as Jerry Springer, Joan Rivers and RuPaul. She has been the recipient of numerous grants for both her solo work and Circus Amok including those from Creative Time, Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, Nancy Quinn Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Gunk Foundation, Open Meadows Foundation, Puffin Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Miller has also served as a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has taught at Cal Arts, NYU, and UCLA, and currently is a professor at Pratt Institute.

*On Friday 23 September at 10.00 pm, the Pabellón 6 Theatre Workshop will perform the play “Chichinabo Cabaret”. Tickets for this event can be obtained by calling 639 766 720 (WhatsApp also accepted) or via the

Chichinabo Cabaret link. Please book in advance; seating is limited.