Oddities and Curiosities : 9. April. 2010 - 23:45 pm
A new concept in cabaret created and directed by David Cassel with the assistance of CC MUZE, Heusden Zolder, Belgium "Oddities and Curiousities" is 90 action packed minutes of Circus, SideShow, Comedy, Burlesque, Magic, Music, Song, Movies and more!! Featuring a fabulous international cast that includes Magician Paul Nathan from the U.S.A., Contortion and Hand stand artist Nina Burri from Switzerland, Sword Swallower and Burlesque Dancer The Beautiful Jewels from Russia via Sweden, Musical Clowns Lattzi Jones from Belgium and Marco Pfreimer from Germany and moderator comedian David Cassel, Citizen of the World.
Not just a show...a lifestyle!
David Cassel - Comedian, Moderator (CAN/AUS/BE/D)
The host for the evening may say something controversial from time to time just to give the audience something to talk about in the bar after the show. With over 25 years of performance experience, David is a triple threat comedian that sings, talks and dances his way into your heart. If you want to hear David talk all you have to do is ask him a question. Called "A Master" by the Limburgs Dagsblad, Maastricht, Holland and "full on high energy stuff" by In Press, Melbourne, Australia, David Cassel will provide the adhesive cement that binds the show together and the solvent to get it out of your clothes later.
Nina Burri - Contortion, Handstand and Burlesque. (SWITZERLAND)
Nina was born in Bern-Switzerland and started her Dance and Ballet Education as a 6 year old at the local Musical School of Edith Langer-Tolnay. In 1998 she was granted her dancer’s certificate „State Approved Stage Dancer“ by The State Ballet School of Berlin. Since then she has danced with company „Rudra Béjart Lausanne“ , the „State Theatre Saarbruecken“ and for one and a half years with the „Bal du Moulin Rouge“ in Paris. In 2007 she attended the China Acrobatic Troupe/ Beijing International Arts School to learn the art of Contortion and Handbalancing, she has since risen to be one of the most dynamic artists in this form today.
Paul Nathan - Magician (U.S.A.)
One of San Francisco's leading conjurers with a sense of the mysterious and the fantastic. His wit and charm always fill the performance space and he always seems to be surrounded by beautiful women. He is, in many ways, a big lovable and pudgey Hugh Heffner.
The Beautiful Jewels - Sword Swallowing/Burlesque (RUSSIA/SWEDEN)
The Beautiful Jewels, who, as the Director of Berlin's Wild Rose Revue, managed to produce one of the cities most successful modern Burlesque Revues, 3 years in a row! Jewels has managed to combine elegance and grac eto create a visual and sensual space that makes her a curiosity like no other.
Willi Widder Nix - Clown/Musician (GERMANY)
Yodeler, Trumpet Player and all round clown, has appeared year in year out in over 200 shows between Tokyo and Rio, Berlin and Montreal and from Hamburg to Cannes amazing audiences with his unique brand of artistry and talent.
Otto Kuhnle - Comedian/Musician (GERMANY) Appearing in Berlin only!!!
Otto Kuhnle, author of the book "I, the joke" and numerous anonymous contact advertisements began his career
classically in a ballet school. His activity as a singing and tap-dancing telegram (bad news department) made him what he is today. Further steps into the social offside were movies with Wim Wenders, the German TV serial "Comedy Factory" and his part in the Comedy-group Trio Blamage.
He explores the shallows of German entertainment and his own bad taste. He dances, sings and plays several
instruments and looks impudently good despite or even because of his old age. Although he had some serious-meant requests of heavy-rich widows, he decided to continue to present the public with his "Blödsinn” ("the art to wash gold from plastic”). Because of his legendary training of pot plants the only thing remaining for the astonished spectator is to say “Mr. Kuhnleis doing it with flowers