Doors open at 5:30. Show at 6:15.
Come experience Sideshow Villains performing their new EP, Claws for Breakfast, a compendium of tunes about criminality, revenge, addiction, and murder set to an eclectic mix of Americana musical styles that evoke 70’s film soundtracks, Hollywood westerns, and vaudevillian burlesque acts, in the lush setting of the Alhambra main hall. Interspersed between songs, watch the Villains' accomplices in the Deviant Cabaret, a mix of dance, circus, and cabaret acts designed to disturb and delight. Arrive in your most exquisite Halloween finery and you may be asked to assist Mark the Knife, the "World's Most Dangerous Comic."
Come Revel with Your Fellow Deviants!
Musicians and Performers:
Dante Ingram - vocals and silks - Sideshow Villains is her latest project - She has performed in New York, Amsterdam, and Chicago. TV appearances: David Letterman, Discovery Channel's More than Human, Wild Chicago and Ben Around Town. Her aerial choreography includes props and puppetry on silks: fans, wings, and a 5' skeleton. https://sideshowvillains.com
Mark Faje - MC and comedy - AKA Mark the Knife/The World's Most Dangerous Comic, is a stand-up comedian who has performed with: Lazer Vaudeville, The Jim Rose Circus, Pearl Jam, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Marilyn Manson, Lucky Boys Confusion, Nelly, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mýa, Kid Rock, Brian Setzer, The Ataris, Sugar Ray, and John Mayer. TV appearances include the Late Night with David Letterman, Comedy Central, Ripley's Believe it or Not, the Discovery Channel, NBC’s America's Got Talent, and Germany’s Got Talent. Cabaret performer The Box and The Act (NYC). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_EPsKSazJHWk9ngXr9NEQ
Benjy Radinsky - is an aerialist, juggler, and general circus thing who draws on his experiences across the US exploring the dark corners of his imagination to create fantasy narratives and make outlandish, queer art. http://Benjyradinskycircus.com
Camille Swift - AKA Femme Fénix is a Chicago-based circus artist, specializing in static trapeze, dance trapeze, and aerial sling, with extensive training in traditional arts (ballet, piano, oil painting) and a few less conventional ones (breakdancing, Japanese swordsmanship). Her passion is creating acts that are highly skilled yet imaginative, expressive and visually striking. She speaks fluent French and has traveled to Paris and Montreal to train and develop her acts. Camille is also a visual artist, focusing in figurative oil painting, book arts, and collage. She has performed in AirOtic Soirée with Les Farfadais, CREACTIVE by Cirque du Soleil at Club Med Opio-en-Provence as well as performed multiple times at the Seattle Moisture Festival and various shows and cabarets across the Midwest. When not performing or creating, she works as a professional aerial coach, training her students in dynamic movement, efficient technique, building strength, flexibility and aerial awareness. https://cryptidproductions.com/- https://cryptidproductions.wordpress.com/
Chris Rooney - an aerial artist, has performed at Aloft Circus Arts and The Den Theatre in conjunction with the Chicago Circus and Performing Arts festival, and is a founding member of the BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest (BCAM). https://vimeo.com/807809833?share=copy, https://youtu.be/GwDfPxYBmII
Chris Siebold - guitar - Chris is a native of Chicago, where he has lived and worked as a professional guitarist since 1996. He is a guitarist, composer/songwriter, arranger, singer, free-lance journeyman. Some of the bands/artists he plays with include Kick the Cat, Howard Levy's Acoustic Express, MAGGIE SPEAKS, Anne Harris Band, The Renegades, Andrew Ripp, Sandip Burman, e, Cathy Richardson Band, Tributosaurus, Sellout, Aaron McEvers' M5, M13, The People's Band and Congress of Musicians, Jenna Mammina, Bonnie Koloc, Ladies of the Canyon, Maxwell St. Klezmer Band, Psycles, Blue Band, Patricia Barber, Colby Beserra, Ryan Shultz Quartet, TMS Trio, Kimotion, Rob Parton's Jazztech Big Band, and HardArt Groop. He also plays frequently at Willow Creek Community Church. He is truly blessed to play with so many inspired souls. He received a BA in Music and Guitar Performance from Elmhurst College in 1998. Upon graduating, he accepted an adjunct teaching position at the college and taught private lessons and led performing ensembles for 9 years. Notably, Chris was a featured guitarist on NPR’s “Prarie Home Companion”, and Chris established the Elmhurst College Gretsch Guitar Ensemble in 2000 and it is still going strong today!
Cristal Sabbagh - dance - Her performance practice, rooted in improvisation and Butoh, walks a line between the everyday, the divine, the personal, and the political. In embodying in her art transformational memories, while simultaneously celebrating pop culture and the experimental, she challenges power structures and awakens viewers’ senses. Working both in a solo capacity and with collaborators, Sabbagh is equally attuned to individual perspectives and collective structures. In various configurations, these collaborators have regularly engaged in improvised performances, opening up new avenues for Sabbagh’s material and conceptual exploration. She is the creator and curator of Freedom From and Freedom To events that are improvisational performance environments which interrogate movement and sound. In 2021 Cristal was awarded a 3Arts / Make a Wave Artist grant. https://www.instagram.com/cristalsabbagh/ -https://www.facebook.com/cristal.sabbagh
Dalia Shafie - is an aerial rope artist based in Chicago, IL, USA. She loves using rope to tell stories of resilience and strength. Dalia started taking aerial silks classes in Cleveland, OH in 2014 and quickly became captivated. In 2019, she discovered that she loved rope even more than silks and it has become her primary apparatus. She is enamored by dynamic rope flow and lives for the float moments where she is defying gravity. - https://www.instagram.com/dalpal25/
Dan Leoli - percussion - Dan has performed with, toured, or played on recordings by: Randy Brecker, Liz Phair, Jewel, Peter Himmelman and Robbie Fulks, Poi Dog Pondering, Fareed Haque and Liquid Soul. Currently he can be seen and heard with Tributosaurus and Under the Streetlamp www.danleali.com
Greg Nergaard - bass - Greg has performed with ensembles such as Surabhi, The Right Now, Soulio, Yves Francois and Rocambeau Jazz, JC Brooks Band, Anne Harris, LasGuitarras de España, and many others. www.surabhiensemble.org
Jaime Ruiz - horn - Horn - Jaime Ruiz is a graduate of Elmhurst University where his time was spent studying under Grammy Award Winner Doug Beach and playing in the internationally acclaimed Elmhurst College Jazz Band. This experience gave him the opportunity to perform alongside notable jazz musicians such as Doc Severinsen, Sean Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Randy Brecker, Bill Holman, Gary Smulyan, Byron Stripling, among others. Jaime also had the opportunity to perform at jazz festivals and clubs across the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, and The Netherlands. Jaime has a busy performing and writing career writing for different jazz, funk/rock, classical, and mariachi ensembles. Most recently, his arrangements have been performed in festivals across the United States by Mariachi Estrellas De Chicago where he played trumpet and was their arranger/copyist.
Michael House - is an aerialist on multiple apparatus and will be joining us on cube. Michael has performed with BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest (BCAM).
Paul Mutzabaugh - Paul Mutzabaugh is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Chicago, who also works as an audio engineer and producer (having received Grammy and Emmy nominations). While keyboards and electric bass are his primary instruments, he also doubles on guitar and percussion. In addition to leading his original group, The Unknown New, he has also had the pleasure of working with variety of notable artists & productions, including: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Heather Headley, Robbie Fulks, Mannheim Steamroller, Miguel Zenón, Spektral Quartet, The Who’s "Tommy", and "MJ the Musical". More information can be found at: www.paulmutzabaugh.com.
Sarah Kroth - stage manager - herder of cats and aerialist - Sarah comes from a background in theatre and general jack of all trades. Many eons ago they were called from the light of the stage to travel in the shadows of the wings. They traversed there for many years, learning her craft at UW- La Crosse, then moving between the exotic realms of Madison, WI, Sarasota, FL, before settling in Chicago, IL. After working in theatres for some time, they found herself called to a wilder cousin of theatre: Circus, and have never left. While they still don't perform, and prefer to help out friends from the background, she does enjoy to tie themselves in knots in the silks or straps apparatus.
During the daylight hours Sarah does some typical office job that we won't talk about.
Spitfire - (They/Them) has performed with Gorilla Tango Burlesque, Kiss Kiss Cabaret, Aloft Circus Arts, the Belmont Burlesque Revue, Untitled Supper Club, and Bordel. www.slightlyspitfire.com
