I’ve been thinking a lot about what I am going to do long term. How I am going to manage avoiding office work. And I was researching circus schools and clown colleges the other day. There really aren’t very many, and it’s too bad that vaudeville is a thing of the past. So then I was looking into busking, and thinking that I could be a one-woman show. If I went to a big city, like Chicago, I could do it on the streets for money. And maybe if I got some other people interested I could modify it into a burlesque show. I could join/create a burlesque troupe, or just hook up with one for shows.
The thing is, I really like goofing off and acting ridiculous on skates. I’d like to make people laugh and be an entertainer. So what I am thinking is making up a little act which would entail me dressing as a roller girl/clown and trying to do ballet on skates. I would fall down a lot and look funny and there would be physical humor. But if I can learn to do the can-can on skates that would be aweeeesome, and actually really impressive. I think I’m gonna start practicing toe stop work in my kitchen. So the busking act would be “the little clown girl who wanted to be a ballerina,” but then for burlesque it could be more saucy and less cutesy. Maybe a little strippy. Ohh, and I should practice hula hooping. That’s a definite skill.
I’m looking up online and it doesn’t seem like anyone else is really doing this. I found one video that was such a simple simple act, but nothing else. I think I could maybe really do this. Fans! Feathers! Sequins!
Oh, and I also have this vision of choreographed, synchronized roller dancing girls (a la Ziegfeld follies) as a roller derby half-time show. That could be sooo fun. The problem is that most of the girls who would be interested and physically able to do it are probably already in derby. So there is a logistical problem for you. Even if I did it by myself, or did a matador routine with a partner in tennis shoes, it would be tough if I was actually skating in that bout. Maybe between a double-header?
I was thinking that my busking name could be Buster Keister, after the silent-era comedy star Buster Keaton. What do you think? This all sounds feasible, right? I mean, I have to dream about something…
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So you want to do a roller-skating burlesque vaudeville show?
Ok... I'd buy that for a dollar...
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