by School of Busking Blog | Mar 10, 2014 | Festivals, School of Busking, street performing, Travel
(Part 1 of 10 Top Tips) So, you have developed a street show with the purpose of busking, a passport to the world, performing your show where ever you choose. I mean this is the romantic notion that so many young buskers aspire to. The old school buskers of the...
by magicwizardry_yfsh1o | Mar 28, 2013 | Attracting an Audience, Festivals, School of Busking, street performing, Street Theatre, Travel
Part one Putting a Show Together can be found in previous blog here. In previous posts I have covered creative thinking, character, developing material, routines, practice, rehearsal and dress rehearsal. All of these finer points will serve you to putting a show...
by School of Busking Blog | Mar 20, 2013 | street performing, Street Theatre, Travel
Thank you for visiting my blog, If you have come here expecting to read ‘Putting a Show Together part 2’ then I have postponed it until next week. Right now friends in Vancouver are having their livelihoods threatened and that has pressed upon me to write of my...
by magicwizardry_yfsh1o | Feb 25, 2013 | School of Busking, street performing, Street Theatre, Theatre shows
If you have not watched the British Arts Council funded movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” I can highly recommend it. Heath Ledger – in his last role – Tom Waits is the Devil and they perform alongside a great cast of actors! The...
by magicwizardry_yfsh1o | Feb 18, 2013 | busker, School of Busking, street performer, street performing, Street Theatre
When you are on the path of creating a show – playing is a great start. I have found myself asking where does one begin? A grand question. A bit like asking what came first – the chicken or the egg. What I suggest is you don’t allow yourself to be...
by magicwizardry_yfsh1o | Feb 11, 2013 | Attracting an Audience, busker, creativity, School of Busking, street performer, street performing, Street Theatre
All of us undergo creative thinking. At an early age, we call this play. From picking up a thin branch to it becoming a sword or building with Lego and it becoming a spaceship. We know in reality that that branch does not actually become a well crafted two edge...