Artists
Performance opportunities, professional development and funding for circus and variety arts
Artist Submissions
For over a quarter a century, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has presented some of the best variety acts working today, including an amazing array of world class entertainers, sideshow marvels, and New York legends. Over 600 artists are a member of our ever growing showbiz family. If you want to send us your material, please do.
Promotional materials can be sent to:
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 386
New York, NY 10009
Email cirkus@bindlestiff.org with promotional material, questions or information or let us see it live. Showcase your act at the next Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show, first Monday of every month at Dixon Place.
Cavalcade of Youth
To find out more, submit your aerial audition video, or sign up to perform a ground act, please email Viveca Gardiner, viveca@playfulproductions.com.
Bindlestiff First of May Award
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
Hopefully returning soon to:
First Monday of Every Month
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY
Door $12 (suggested donation)
Showtime: 7:30 pm
Info: dixonplace.org
A First Look at NYC’s Finest Emerging Variety Talents
Circus • Sideshow • Vaudeville • Burlesque • Dance • Music
Come to Dixon Place for a night of variety that will include much more than a simple song and dance. Bindlestiffs Open Stage Variety Show is a non stop variety show experience that may include world famous magicians, gender bending jugglers, circus legends, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sideshow performers, stripping clowns, living cartoons, physical comedy, contortionists, performance artists, emerging burlesque starlets, and more. Hosted by Keith “Bindlestiff” Nelson, the show celebrates works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises.
If you would like to be on the stage, please submit your act using this form: Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show Act Submission
