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This April and May, I will have the good fortune to tour once again with the Handsome Little Devils, the Denver-based, nouveau vaudevillian troupe, in their hit show Squirm Burpee. I spent the better part of November 2011 with them in New York and New Hampshire in this “vaudevillian melodrama”. I’ve praised these folks before, more from afar, and was …
Las Vegas, NV – New Belgium Brewery’s Tour De Fat 2011 comes to a triumphant close, touring 13 US cities in 20 weeks. It’s been a great summer, working with great old friends and making great new ones. But Jimmy won’t be unpacking his bags just yet. In November, he’ll be on the East Coast, working with one of his favorite troupes, The Handsome Little Devils. …
Las Vegas, NV – Globetrotting resumes, as Jimmy officially gets rolling with New Belgium Brewery’s Tour De Fat. So far, he’s traveled to Durham NC, Nashville TN, (hometown) Chicago IL, Minneapolis MN, with 9 more cities to go! Jimmy picks up some new characters as he performs in the great outdoors and in the fabulous Le Tigre Tent. Jimmy also keeps busy at home by working with …
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Las Vegas, NV – Jimmy is happy to announce that he’ll be going back on tour this summer, this time with New Belgium Brewing for their annual Tour de Fat, an outdoor festival of bikes and beer with an environmental sustainablility message at its heart. Joining him will be his old Daredevil Chicken Club friends Jonathan and Anne and their super-awesome Le Tigre Tent. Jimmy will be visiting 13 US …
Las Vegas, NV – Happy New Year! Jimmy begins the year big with his new (though temporary) stint as the White Clown in Cirque’s “O” at the Bellagio, entertaining more than 1800 spectators twice a night! He also is hard at work to collaborate with Vegas cohorts on some exciting upcoming projects. Jimmy misses his KOOZÅ pals and wishes them well on their Japan run this year, but he’s super happy to be …
Luckily, life after Kooza doesn’t necessarily mean unemployment! At the end of Kooza’s run in Calgary last month, my drive to Las Vegas was event-filled to say the least. Within the span of 24 hours, I experienced a roller-coaster of emotions thanks to a series of completely unrelated occurrences. First thing in the morning, on the last leg of my trip to Vegas, …
Miami, FL – Less than a month remains for Jimmy’s time with KOOZÅ, when he receives some great news that he’ll be temporarily replacing the White Clown in Cirque du Soleil’s“O” at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas! The three-month stint, starting just before Christmas, will be a marked change in character compared to his clown in KOOZÅ. Russian clowning has a completely different speed and color from the very American clowning …
Calgary, AB – As KOOZÅ’s time in Canada draws to a close, Jimmy dusts off the old video camera and editing equipment and collaborates with a couple of fellow performers to enter the Cheetah Power Surge TV Commercial Challenge. He directs and edits “Sunday in the Park with Cheetah”, featuring two amazingly talented hand balancers, Corine Latreille and Sergey Nazarov, as well as his wife Robin and son Leo! Voting is …
Portland, OR – Jimmy keeps sharpening his design skills by giving JimmySlonina.com a facelift, as well as starting a new comic-style, quasi-autobiographical blog called The Amazing Adventures and Torturous Tediums of a Modern Clown. KOOZÅ wraps up its run in Stumptown, as the Slonina family preps for their move to the next city, Seattle, WA. On their week off between cities, the family will take …
