Possi's contortion site

This is a pretty good site with many contortion links. So if contortion is your thing visit the link below..

http://www.possic.de

Link to this blog!

If you find this blog interesting or think it could be of interest to the visitors of your site....please post a link on your website to us. I am trying to gain popularity in the search engines for the blog.......as well all know the way that works is you need links pointing to your site!

Thanks
Robert

The Magicians Weblog

This is a good weblog containing photos and nice content for magicians...

http://www.magician.org.uk/

Producer Tibor Rudas

Tibor Rudas
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Tibor Rudas is a Hungarian producer whose most notable accomplishment was the conceptualization of The Three Tenors concerts, with Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti.
Rudas was born in Budapest, and at the age of eight, was singing boy soprano for the Budapest State Opera. Years later, in Australia, he established a dance studio and began producing French-style revues. By 1963, he was invited to the United States, where in Las Vegas such revues were flourishing. There, his own style of choreography and production gained him and his troupe, known as the Rudas Acro-Dancers, international acclaim; groups of these dancers later began touring all over the globe.
In 1976, Tibor Rudas was commissioned to build and run a theater for the first casino in Atlantic City -- the Resorts International Superstar Theater. Many great artists performed there, such as Cher, Bill Cosby, Jackie Gleason, Liberace, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, and Frank Sinatra. After three years of successful operation, he decided to return to his original calling -- classical music -- and in an unusual move, introduced The New York Philharmonic as the first classical artists to perform in a casino showroom. Later, performances by distinguished artists such as Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, Dame Joan Sutherland, the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, and the New York City Opera National Company followed, in casinos as well as in traditional concert halls.
In 1983, Tibor Rudas presented Luciano Pavarotti in concert for the first time. Because the Maestro had reservations about performing in a casino, Rudas went to the extent of constructing a special tent for the performance; the concert was a spectacular success and as a result he gave up his position at Resorts International to produce Mr. Pavarotti’s concerts throughout the world. The two worked together for over twenty years, for a total of over 200 concerts in such venues as Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, Wembley Arena, Tokyo’s Budokan, and Sydney Superdome, among countless others, on virtually every continent. Rudas has also presented ambitious events within specially-built outdoor venues in Hyde Park, attracting 200,000 Londoners as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales on a soaking-wet day in 1991; in Buenos Aires, for 300,000 in 1992; in Central Park, for 500,000 New Yorkers in 1993; and the Mayan Ruins at Chichén Itzá in 1997, among others.
Perhaps Mr. Rudas' greatest achievement in taking opera to wider audiences was the 3 Tenors concerts. In 1994, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti, along with conductor Zubin Mehta, captivated 56,000 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles – as well as approximately 1.3 billion television viewers in more than 100 countries -- in what was the most-watched worldwide musical event in history. Audio and video recordings were released in record time, going platinum within a week of release.
Continuing his success with the legendary trio, Tibor Rudas produced The 3 Tenors World Tour 1996-97, under the musical direction of Metropolitan Opera Artistic Director James Levine, live in ten cultural capitals around the world, including Tokyo, London, Vienna, New York, Gothenburg, Munich, Duesseldorf, Melbourne, Modena, and Barcelona. In 1998, the Tenors sang an outdoor concert before the Eiffel Tower for 150,000 Parisians and over a billion television viewers, in a performance that became their release Carreras Domingo Pavarotti with Levine: Paris 1998.
Rudas continued to produce Pavarotti and 3 Tenors concerts until 2003.

Very strange magic act

This is the strangest magic act I have ever seen. I normally would not post something like this, but I thought the performance community might find it interesting.

Warning contains nudity

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/http:/video/x9928_gala-2006-ursula

Circus Fans Association

The Purpose of the Circus Fans Association of America is:

* Education & Understanding - To provide educational resources related the circus. To promote an understanding and appreciation of the art of the circus.
* Communication - To be a point of contact between the people of the circus, artists or executives, and the outside world.
* Support - To help insure the Circus will continue to exist among us as a social, educational and recreational art form. Visit our Calendar page to view support events..
* Preservation- The National Circus Preservation Society (NCPS) is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization affiliated with CFA. Its main goal is to develop, promote, and advance information and knowledge for a better understanding of the American Circus, and to preserve the circus as part of
American history.
* Publishing - CFA has been publishing The White Tops, the official magazine of the CFA, since 1928.

Circus Fans Association

Partypop

Despite the wierd name of this company it seems to be quite a valuable resource.....
you list your act or show in the right category regionally or nationwide and they advertise it for you........a txt listing is free .....if you want a link to your web site it costs, i think $15.00 a month .......i have picked up quite a few gigs through this site ....it seems to be well listed in the search engines which also boosts your search rankings and delivers a fair amount of exposure....

Partypop.com

CastingAuditions.com

Seems to be a good site for finding casting and auditions information from all over The United States.

Check it out


CastingAuditions.com

Tibor Rudas's Dazzling Deception and the famed illusionist Richiardi Jr.

One of my dearest experiences in life was growing up in the Bahamas and working
for Tibor Rudas in the show Dazzling Deception in the Resorts International Hotel
and Casino owned by Merve Griffin at the time and formerly Donald Trump on Paradise
Island.

Back in those days Paradise Island really was paradise......miles of private
secluded beaches, woods and beautiful roads through the Casaurina trees. Unfortunately
Sun International got their hands on the island and destroyed it!! It is no
longer paradise but a concrete jungle.

Dazzling Deception was a world class show put on by Hungarian producer Tibor
Rudas. The running time was one hour and thirty minutes...

The show contained everything from incredible illusions and illusionists to
first rate variety acts.....comedians.....acrobats..ice skaters..pyrotechics..black
light numbers...a Rudas invention living screens...topless dancers ....everything
a large Vegas style production should have. The sets were elaborate and the
choreography and costumes were stunning.The shows cost well into the millions
annually to run...back in those days when everything was not so expensive that
was huge money.. The stage was massive 150 ft long with a ceiling of nearly
80 ft. The house was capable of seating around 1000 people and hosted dinner
shows that catered to hotel guests, locals and cruise ship passengers.

Tibor Rudas had been putting shows into the casino on Paradise Island since
the first large scale hotel was built on Paradise Island. The shows in the Le
cabaret Theatre were always the most highly regarded shows in the country..Mr
Rudas and his associates had actually designed and helped build the theater
that is still there today.

Many of the cast members had a 20 or so year run working in the Le Cabaret
theatre ....we were all a big family living in paradise.

Numerous shows ran there over time...2 of them that I remember were Buccaneers
of the caribbean and Dazzling Deception...Both spectacular shows like Mr Rudas
always presented.

My parents Laszlo szarka and Marianne Szarka were Hungarian immigrants that
escaped the then communist country of Hungary during the Hungarian anti Russia
revoltion in 1956. They immigrated to England and then Australia. In sydney
Australia they found the Rudas acrobat school were they met and started to learn
acrobatics handbalancing and adagio. You can see pictures of them at Szarkaduo.com

They were married within a few years and went on to perform all over the world
with Tibor Rudas and other companies. Laszlo Szarka my father was the artistic
director aswell as one of the key acts and performers of many of Tibors productions
including Dazzling Deception and Nights Of the Buccaneers.

Our family was a part of the productions on Paradise Island until 1991 when
Tibor pulled out and Sun International bought the property.

I have searched on the internet for many years to find websites or any information
that may be present on Dazling Deception or any of the other Bahmas Rudas productions
to no avail.

Today a friend of mine Levent
a fantastic performer that works frequently on Royal caribbeans
fleet of ships where I also perform sent me an e-mail with an article for MUM
magazine that someone had written for Dazzling Decption on the famed illusionist
Richiardi JR. . Who was the original illusionist featured in Dazzling Deception.

The article was written by a man called Dale Scott who I presume is an illusionist.

He did a great job with the article, it has pictures and a good write up of
the show. Many many thanks to Dale Scott for writing this article.

I just wanted to correct a few mistakes before I post the URL to the scanned
PDF article.

He had written that Robert szarka (me... was the illusionist that presented
the illusions in the Afro Cuban number. It was not me but a Bahamian man that
we all called Caligula :) I was only 11 at the time and not yet performing.....I
later joind the famed Rudas Acrodancers in the show at the age of 16.

Richiardi passed away around a year into the show from a very unfortunate accident.

My father Laszlo Szarka took over his role as illusionist for a few years until
a Hungarian man called Attila kapros that was part of a Hungarian teeter board
act called the Lukacs troup filled the part.

The Russian adagio act that is mentioned was actually my father and mother
from Hungary.

Once again many thanks to Dale Scott for the great article and Levent
for sending it to me!

RichiardiMUM.pdf