Happy New Year!

In Sxip's Hour of Charm real life circus composer Sxip Shirey presents a high powered night of variety entertainment. Featuring: New music by Sxip Shirey utilizing regurgitated music boxes, human beat box and industrial flutes. Fresh from their succesful run at P.S. 122, Chicago's 500 clowns, present an excerpt from their comedy/tragedy Frankenstein. Dayna Kurtz's earthy nu-folk lullabies will make you forget to breathe. You dont know it but you've seen him in Spider Man 2, The Cell, The Grinch and Big Fish, contortionist Johnathan Nosan does things with his body that are illegal in certain states. Our favorite comedian/story teller Greg Walloch is funny, sweet and raunchy as hell. Gothic roots band VOCO's take on everything from Appalachian tunes to Bartok. Always a show-stopping visual and rhythmic pleasure. She'll be literally just off the plane from London, but Kalkia Hula Girl returns once again to make a rare appearance in NYC! Also a special appearance by our favorite human beat boxer Adam Matta. Sxip's Hour of Charm is unquestionably mesmerizing, endlessly entertaining, and is truly in a league of its own!

Sxip Shirey "...conjures a world of infernal calliopes and cotton candy machetes wielded by Gypsy crones with angel feet..." --Silke Tudor, SF Weekly.

500 Clowns "As the spreading infestation of skyscrapers cast long shadows over the East Village, an ember of a vanishing sensibility burned bright Saturday at P.S. 122: "500 Clown Christmas," from a Chicago troupe combining music, clowning and acrobatics, was in raucous motion." -New York Times

Dayna Kurtz "...is the kind of artist who inspires wild-eyed zealotry among her fans, and there are three reasons for it: One, she's an artist's artist, one whose whiskeyed, determined alto often earns her comparisons with Nina Simone; two, while Europeans adore her, she's obscenely underappreciated in her own country; and three, her songs, which straddle a difficult space between jazz, rock, and folk, are pure poetry. " -All Music Guide

Johnathan Nosan "A truly amazing contortionist who provides the show with its single most disturbing image"--The New York Times on Twyla Tharp's 'The Times They Are A-Changin'

Greg Walloch "It's not often that the typically rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the comedy stage softens enough to allow such moments of delicate human tenderness." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times.

Kalki Hula Girl "The cute cheerleader turned gymnastic-tastic hula queen with abs of steel". -Time Out London