Stories From The Pitch

Short - Busker HoF 78 - Contained Chaos


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What do you do when your show is visited by a viking and a guy strung out on drugs? Both have the potential of stopping your show in it’s tracks unless you’ve got the confidence in your ability to roll with the unexpected and keep your audience laughing at everything that comes up.

Focusing on the energy in the circle and redirecting negative energy through humour is effective to a point, but sometimes a situation can escalate to the stage where it becomes a potential threat to not only the performer, but the audience as well.

Magic Brian sat down with JP McKendry to relive the show at the Stockholm Street Performer’s Festival where JP dodged not one, but two bullets for himself, his volunteer and an audience that watched on in awe at the spectacle that unfolded before them.
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