My Cranium
A Different Breed of Cat by Brett Lawrence (for HEAR Magazine)
• March 8th, 2012 • News
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150794457479112&set=a.126368224111.131241.678314111&type=1&theater
Metro Detroit’s vaudeville and burlesque artists bring back the sexy with laughs (the Oakland Press)
• March 2nd, 2012 • News
Ladies and Gents..check this out when you can…Article about SC and a good friend, Lushes LaMoan…Cheers/SC
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2012/03/01/entertainment/doc4f5022092c112249409265.txt
2012 SATORI CIRCUS and the Cirquettes Calendar…AVAILABLE NOW
• September 8th, 2011 • News
For Immediate Release: (September 9, 2011)
“New York City has the Blue Man Group, Detroit has SATORI CIRCUS.” – Chris Jaszczak, 1515 Broadway -
Ladies and Gentlemen,
SATORI CIRCUS presents the 2012 Satori Cirquettes Calendar.
A collaborative piece from SC and his dear friends: A. Owen Layne (humor and eros photographer extraordinaire) and Madeline Frost (instigator of this endeavor, model and entrepreneur), together they have created a masterpiece that will go way beyond the 2012 year.
This soon to be collectors item, is finally out and contains a bevy of sexy models, performers, and burlesque and pin-up mavens who represent the art and performance community of Detroit. Some of which you may know…many of which you may have seen in the flesh performing on your Detroit stages. Its been getting a buzz since it was shot and developed earlier this year.
This limited edition printing will be available for early release starting September 9, 2011.
“SATORI CIRCUS is easily the Best Performance Art Group Detroit has produced. It should be
seen if only to witness a New Direction in Art.” – Detroit Free Press –
As you may know, SATORI CIRCUS is a prominent performance artist throughout the US, who is based in Metro Detroit, and has been Voted Best Theater Group for 2011-12 by Channel 4’s ‘Best Of Detroit’ and recently seen on ‘America’s Got Talent’.
Proceeds from the calendar we be going to Danielle ‘Doxie’ Kaltz’s Burners Without Borders charity, which provides backpacks stocked with clothing, food and health rations that get passed throughout Detroit to the homeless. (Even Doxie herself posed as a sexy Cirquette for this project.)
More info on Burners Without Borders can be found at: www.facebook.com/pages/burners-without-borders-detroit/139544484100 and http://littledsworld.blogspot.com/
The calendar is being priced at ($15/$20 – S/H based on destination). Orders can be placed by emailing satori_circus@yahoo.com or http://www.facebook.com/satori.circus or checking out www.satoricircus.com soon!
“The Bottom Line: Performance Art is not for everyone; for the rest of us there is SATORI CIRCUS!”
– Don Calamia, Between The Lines –
“SATORI CIRCUS, is the inventive, funny, sad, haunting, and occasionally disturbing stage persona created roughly 20 years ago and then honed and polished until it became the fallen god in grease-paint it is today.” -Robert de Valle, Real Detroit Weekly
Russell A. Taylor Satori Circus www.satoricircus.com satori_circus@yahoo.com 313.718.2299
A FEW MINUTES WITH: Satori Circus (a.k.a Russell A. Taylor) By Donald V. Calamia
• May 20th, 2011 • News
Few local or regional performers attain legendary status, but that pretty much sums up the position in which Satori Circus finds himself these days. Although his name may not be familiar to you, his face likely is – especially if you frequent the clubs, bars and various venues around town that serve burlesque and performance art to their more discerning patrons. Created by Russell A. Taylor, Satori Circus isn’t easy to define – but his work highlights the importance of a creative class to the continued renaissance of Detroit. Taylor spoke recently to EncoreMichigan.com about the “secret origin” of Satori Circus, and the handful of events he’ll be appearing at through May 22.
http://http://www.encoremichigan.com/article.html?article=4634
Absurdist bits ignite imaginative inferno
• February 2nd, 2011 • News
By Aurelio Sanchez
Journal Staff Writer
Russell Taylor is the man behind Satori Circus, but what in the universe is behind Satori Circus?
Theater of the Absurd is a good start. Buster Keaton vaudeville comedy, maybe. Drag queen burlesque, certainly an element. Shades of spoken-word poetry, evident. Clownish mime, perhaps. A wonderful tenor voice for sure.
“It’s an amalgamation of theatrics I just love,” Taylor said.
Performance artist Satori Circus will bring his inventive brand of Motor City Madness to Third Street Arts Space, making his first appearance in Albuquerque.
“It’s so nice to see mountains that aren’t just skyscrapers,” he said.
A Michigan native, Taylor went to Northern Michigan and Wayne State universities, where he studied art and played hockey. On weekends, he played in rock bands. For the past 20 years, he’s been Satori Circus, and it begs the question again, what is behind this act?
Back in the day, while playing for an “arty farty” punk band called Fugitive Poetry, he and another band member began experimenting with creating little character skits and acting them out on stage to their own music. When his friend died, Taylor soldiered on, and Satori Circus was born.
Satori Circus combines music, vaudeville, poetry, dance, film and slapstick into a stage performance that is unpredictable, difficult to categorize and entertaining.
In his 23 years of performing, Satori Circus has copped several awards, including Detroit’s Best Performance Artist from the Real Detroit Weekly in 2006 and Best Live Performance from the Detroit Music Awards.
Taylor’s stage show typically includes short skits and costume changes. He wears white face appointed with a black painted-on mustache, the ends turned up. He may wear a tuxedo, overalls or a dress.
Improv is a central and frequent ingredient in his stage show, but it’s his voice that pleasantly surprises, as he sings in a strong and melodic tenor. He also writes his own music and lyrics.
Satori Circus refers to Jack Kerouac’s book “Satori in Paris,” in which Kerouac has a spiritual awakening, and to Taylor’s own remembrance of growing up in Detroit as being like “a circus all the time.”
In his Albuquerque appearance, Satori Circus will perform an art piece titled “Hodgepodge,” a collection of his vignettes from the past four years.
The makeup of the man and the myth
• February 2nd, 2011 • News
Russell Taylor sits on a vinyl red couch at Studio Red in Nob Hill.
He wears a plain sweater and orange Nike sneakers, and seems unaware of the white face paint that masks his identity.
http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2011/01/the_makeup_of_the_man_and_the_myth
Truth, Faith, Strength, Truth
• January 19th, 2011 • Uncategorized
This is another piece from the performance art piece, MOSES:39 (copyright 2006). Written by myself and dear friend Tim Suliman, who also mastered the entire musical collection for the performance piece.
There will be other selections that I will post as I go along.
Enjoy…and if so, please pass on the word.
Cheers and Thanks for stopping by.
SATORI CIRCUS
SATORI CIRCUS: His Performance Art is “FUNY AS HELL” (by Robert de Valle/Det. Metromix)
• January 18th, 2011 • News
“And you thought Pagliacci had issues? This is not your father’s mime. Come to think of it — this ain’t no mime. A clown? Well, this clown probably NEVER showed up at your birthday party. Lucky you.”
http://detroit.metromix.com/events/article/satori-circus/463863/content
SATORI CIRCUS gives Detroit a ‘kick in the eye’ absurdist shtick (by Donna Terek/Det. News)
• January 18th, 2011 • News
What’s black and white and funny as Charlie Chaplin, Bozo, Insane Clown Posse and Harlequin rolled into one big, artistic farce stuffed into the compact body of one insanely creative man?
