Director of Circus Amok to Return to MCLA
 Courtesy MCLA
Jennifer Miller |
Miller will give the slide show presentation "Is Your House on Fire?" The presentation will provide a short history of Circus Amok, focusing on queer bodies, public spaces and the fostering of democracy. She also will present some solo, circus sideshow performance pieces. A question and answer session will follow the show.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Miller is the founder and director of Circus Amok, an alternative queer theater that gives free performances in poor and ethnic neighborhoods in New York City. She has won numerous awards for her work on the circus. She teaches at the Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Miller has been doing alternative circus, theater, and dance for 20 years, including seven years on the Coney Island circuit. She also has appeared on the Jerry Springer, Ru Paul and Joan Rivers TV shows. Circus Amok has won several prestigious awards, such as the Bessie in 1995 and the OBIE in 2000.
