BONY LIL

About me:

BONY LIL's CREATION + DISTRACTION
to be released in entirety online
October 4th
to celebrate the birth of master silent clown Buster Keaton
WATCH HERE


NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2010

The World Premiere of the new solo show:
How To Give Up On Your Dreams: By Not Really Trying

The Brick Theater, Brooklyn NY
Sept 17th + 20th at 9pm and Sept 25th at 6pm

info at bricktheater.com/clown

interview on stagebuzz.com

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New Video from Bony Lil archives, featuring the supreme talent of one Mr. Brian Viglione


Performance Reel 2009:


AVClub.com Chicago has posted a piece on real clown reaction to Bruce Nauman's video installation, 'Clown Torture'. Zea Barker was one of the clowns present to hold forth on the subject. Check it out!

WANTED: A NEW CLOWN THEATRE PIECE IN THE WORKS
FOR EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE SERIES
Zea Barker, Noel Williams, and Barnaby King were accepted to create a piece for Gorilla Tango Theatre's Experimental Theatre Series.
Performances with be July 6, 13, 20 + 27
8 PM!


STOP THE GENE WILDER REMAKES - T-Shirts
Now available online! Printed with love by some awesome folks in Cincinnati!
Mens. Womens. American Apparel.
Hooray!
wireandtwine.com


BONY LIL APPEARED IN CHICAGO'S EL CIRCO CHEAPO! June 6th


BONY LIL APPEARED IN CHICAGO'S BEAST WOMEN CABARET SPRING SERIES!


NEW YORK PREMIERE of Short Film Duet
BONY LIL's CREATION + DISTRACTION
September 16th, Joe's Pub
live musical accompaniment by Valerie Thompson, Vessela Stoyanova, and Brendan Burns with live foley by Michael Pope


NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2008
Bony Lil, with Ms. Valerie Thompson, rock the big apple.
SEPTEMBER 11th, 10:30PM
Brick Theatre, 575 Metropolitan, Brooklyn NY

Also, check out the clown parade, pie fight and free opening night cabaret
SEPTEMBER 5th, 4:30pm -11:00pm
Union Square to Brick Theatre


BONY LIL WENT TO SCHOOL
Bony Lil has completed a five week course in the Richard Pochinko tradition with the immensely talented Sue Morrison in Toronto called Clown Through Mask. Then, five months later another two weeks of partnered work called Joey and Auguste. And, to top it off a short course in bouffon taught by New York's bouffon darling, Eric Davis of Red Bastard fame. A smashing time was had by all. Great things are in the works. INcluding the IRS auditing me to figure out why all the school was necessary. Stay tuned.

FILM
Over two years in the making Bony Lil's CREATION and DISTRACTION, a duet of short films exploring the extreme opposite ends of the creative process, are complete. These films are a byproduct of collaboration between Zea Barker and Michael Pope (a designer/director duo who have brought you the bulk of the Dresden Dolls music videos, the Dresden Dolls: Live in Paradise DVD, the Dresden Dolls EPK, a Fluttr Effect, a Steamy Bohemians and a Ben Folds music video.) Creation and Distraction feature Bony Lil in a mix of silent live-action and a unique style of blended hand-drawn and stop-motion animation. The first, Distraction, is a classic story of girl meets blank sheet of paper. We watch as Bony Lil labors to surmount the barrage of obstacles as she runs the gauntlet of creative expression. In the second, Creation, Bony Lil is found steeped in the frenzy of inspiration. As she labors to draw characters, they begin to take on a life of their own and crawl off their pages looking for adventure, trouble and love.

Once all the pain-staking animation was drawn, cut out and shot, the remaining ingredient was finding fantastic musical talent to create original scores to Bony Lil's antics. Creation was put in the extremely capable hands of Valerie Thompson, cellist for Fluttr Effect, whereupon she produced a juicy flamanco-influenced string quartet that fits the adventures of the characters like a glove. Distraction was rendered by an all-star cast from Blue Man Group. Hari Hassin (Music Director for Blue Man Boston) and Michael Petrucci (Drum Instructor for Blue Man Boston) steered the ship that at various times contained music directors from the Orlando show and the Rock Tour. They made some jaunty numbers taking cues from Django Reinhardt and James Brown as well as their own splendiforous brain pans. The Icing on that cake was supplied by none other than Brian Viglione, of Dresden Dolls fame, who whipped up a saucy drum solo accompaniment to a rather passionate scene about oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.



INTERNET VIDEO
Bony Lil featured on fringefriday by editor of Yahoo Video. Nice write up with it.
Also nominated for a Yahoo! Video Veddy 2006 in the "Indie Trailer" category.
* yahoo!video * youtube * crackle *

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Blood From a Turnip Puppetry Film Festival 2007: shown as a work in progress
Voltaic Vaudeville: May 2007
Chicago Short Film Brigade: October 2007
Fuck the Backrow: National Tour

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THANK YOU and HAPPY HOLLA-DAISIES!


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