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Piracy--A Brief Guide |
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Emrys with faeries Belle and Staar Visit the Faeries Webbe Site About Belle About Staar |
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The 2009 B.A.R.F acrobat troupe was organized and trained by Levi Landry in early 2008. Landry is Largo resident who performed in the Faire/Festival circuit for 12 years. In 2006, Landry co-directed a group along with Joe Stephenson, to put together the fight show for the 2006 Florida Pirate Festival held in November 2006 in Clearwater. The show was so spectacular that people in the fair circuit still talk about it. Stephenson is a veteran of improvisational performance, having been involved with fight shows for over 15 years. He first joined the Bay Area Renaissance Festival in 1995, when it was still held in Largo. Since then, he has been a regular in the festival circuit, participating in staged fights throughout Florida. Stephenson's fight troupe, comprised mostly of stunt performing high school students and young adults, is called "Chaos Perfect." Its members come from a variety of backgrounds including theater, dance, martial arts and costuming.
In 2008, BARF's previous acrobat team would not be returning and Landry thought it would be a great idea to have a small group of cast members perform acrobatic tricks throughout the festival grounds. The Festival promoters were very interested in the idea. Landry worked to train a team of several hand-picked fair regulars into an acrobat troupe. Most of the troupe members had extensive stunt show experience but not much formal acrobatic training. They only had a few months to make it look like they’ve been performing acrobatics for years. Troupe member Alex Craddock previously had plenty of physical acting and fighting experience, but not much traditional acrobat training. In addition to rehearsals on the weekends, the team began meeting at a gym during the week for private instruction on the fine points of tumbling, landing front tucks, diving through the air and occasionally taking a spinning fall into a pit full of foam blocks. Another Faire circuit veteran, Ray Hawkins (the Gray Acrobat), joined because it sounded like fun and he wanted to try something different; a bit more physical than what he had done before. Landry, an agile performer due to years of martial arts training and performing an average of 4 shows a year, faced quite a challenge. The troupe had to push hard to master in a two months what takes years to perfect. It is apparent that the acrobats met their challenge and came through with "flying colors!"
(Above info is from an article by Joe Harless in the "Largo Leader" published Feb. 2008, and an article in the Clearwater Citizen, July 2007) |
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Together, James Songster and Joe Vecciarelli are the
hilarious interactive comedy & magic team of "It's Unbelievable Magic."
Their award-winning act Bunnies in Peril with Abracadabra the
rabbit features the Bunny Crusher.
