Ingenuity Street Performers

Buskers, Hustlers and Showmen!

Ingenuity presents a wide variety of street performers throughout the weekend, including jugglers, musicians, stiltwalkers, magicians, fire artists and more! For your entertainment….

Melissa Daubert and her Urban Trotter (see here)

Taliesin Haugh, an Ingenuity artist-in-residence, will be demonstrating a different street performance each day: acrobatic improvisations on Powerizer Pogostilts, 5ft. four-legged stilts, and Capoeira. Taliesin lives in Cleveland Heights and has amazed audiences throughout the region for many years.

Ray Taylor, magician http://www.myspace.com/rayraysleights

Jim Kelly, violinist

“Rowdy” Bill Roddy juggles balls, clubs, rings, devil sticks, poi, diabollo and fire stuff too (torches, poi and devil stick!). He’s performed for Boo at the Zoo, First Night Akron and All Go Signs at Cleveland Public Theatre. He’s a member of the Fire Performance Group – Ohio Burn Unit and much more! http://www.juggleartpainting.com/

David Doyle, a versatile and talented performer, is sure to delight any audience with his wide array of specialized shows. A veteran entertainer, he has enchanted audiences across the East Coast for over ten years with his displays of magic, fire breathing, escape artistry, stilt walking and comedy shows. As a performer, David has performed in a variety of venues, anywhere from Congressional picnics and non-profit benefits to private country club settings. Always willing to expand the excitement and danger in his shows, David began adding feats of escapism to his shows over five years ago. Inspired by the likes of Harry Houdini, David Doyle has added amazing shows of escape artistry to his magic acts, and is well known for his “100 Foot Rope Escape” as well as escapes from shackles, straitjackets, and chains—stunts which he performs both on the ground and in the air on stilts! In continued attempts to constantly push himself to the limits, mastering ever more amazing (and dangerous!) talents. He added fire breathing to his repertoire, and entertained as part of the “Scarlet Scoundrels,” a professional fire breathing and Russian acrobatic troupe, at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire in 2007.

Tagged as: Family, Interactive, Ongoing Event, Performance Art