We made it

The Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival starts this weekend and we have arrived. We had an amazingly epic long drive from Denver, across the Kansas flats and into the east. We were notified right before we left Colorado Monday that there was a TV promo the festival wanted us to do on Wednesday morning. We made it but just barely. We stopped to sleep in Kansas the first night. The next day we drove from 8am to 5am 21 hours. We stopped once for dinner at an amazing Indian Restaurant/ Truck stop in Indiana. Well we made it to the KDKA station with an hour of sleep and we had a great time. We juggled tomatoes with the cooking show and did some teaser spots. Our brains had a little trouble with the interview but the juggling was easy. Our van also got some airtime. So if you are in the area come out and see us we would love to see you.

you can get details on the Renaissance festival here: Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival.

Hey Y'all

If you did not know already we have a Facebook fan page and it is awesome. Here is the link to it Flourish and fool Facebook. We are doing really great at the festival. Working on a great stage right next to the Joust. Our show has really tightened up, we can tell by the crowd response. Two more weeks here in Colorado and then we are off to the east coast for the Pittsburgh Faire.

Colorado!

The month of June has been a busy one and we find ourselves in Colorado working at the Colorado Renaissance festival until the first of August. Yes we miss Austin but we do not miss the 100 degree days and humidity which is the summer in Texas. Colorado is Beautiful and we are very excited to be working for the Ren Faire this year. It has been great to see all our friends from last year and hang out with other crazy performers. Looking forward to an amazing summer of performing!

Petanque!

Well it is official we are addicts. Today we played at least 8 hours of Petanque. For everyone who does not know the game Petanque is a french game very similar to Bocce Ball. The goal of the game is to get as close as you can to the Chochone or "little piggy" in french. The team which is closer after all the balls are thrown gets the point or points depending on how many balls they have closer.
Today we got up, ate some food and drove over to the local Miami Petanque court. (yes we are in Miami doing a Renaissance Festival for three weeks. We will be back in Austin int the end of Jan.) The Petanque court is not your normal gravel path or your normal city park location. The Miami Petanque club meets at the Biltmore Hotel one of the fanciest Hotels in Florida. Here is the link http://www.biltmorehotel.com/ This is the kind of place where a cup of black coffee costs $4 and the past guests include the Clintons, Heather Gram and the Dali Lama.
Our Mentor Arsene Dupin (Please check him out he is amazing) is also our Petanque coach ( I know, who would think it?) His addiction to the game is worse than ours. He is the president of the Heart of Texas Petanque club (the one we play with back in Austin). Wow this really is a lot of background. Anyway we arrived at the Biltmore at 11:30 where we were supposed to play with the executive chef and the general manager (Arsene has a way of connecting with people, especially the French.) It turned out that they could not play because of some important meetings and such so we played just the three of us for a couple hours.
Later the chef asked us if we wanted to eat and had a fabulous lunch served for us. Then we went for a walk down the smancy streets of Coral Gables and back to the Biltmore for more Petanque. We were joined later (5:00) by the locals and had a rematch of team Texas vs. team Miami. We won again. We quit around 9pm wow. A year ago we had hardly heard of the game now we are marathon players, what a strange life.
We had fun pretending to be millionaires today. Wherever we follow Arsene we end up in the strangest most wonderful places. Today was fun tomorrow we go to visit a famous animal trainer and pet tigers. (I'm not kidding)

Austin!

What you are seeing above is the view from our fourth story rooftop deck! We moved into a house in the Barton Hills area of Austin a month ago. This is a big change because we have been living in the van for the last year. Our room is huge. We could probably fit four of the VW's in our room with the tops popped! Our ceilings are about 12 feet high! We can pass 7 in our room. Soon we will be installing a trapeze so that we can monkey around when we wake up. We live with 4 other awesome people who are all into various strange and wonderful things. Music marching bands, theater, and slowly the addiction of juggling and sillyness.

We finished the Texas Renaissance Festival last weekend. And we are happy to say that we will be back next year!

We have been helping teach a class at the community college as guest instructors in acro. The class is Stage Movement and has been a lot of fun. The instructor David Yeckel is an amazing well of knowledge. Teaching everything from basic mime, prat falls and stage combat. We have been helping them learn some partner acrobatics and incorporating dynamic acro into their stage combat routines. The last class and showing is on Wednesday should be fun.

Looking forward to hearing from you all soon. Come visit us in Austin!

We have a Website! If you have not had a chance to check it out go to flourishandfool.com We have been working at the Texas Renaissance Festival for three weekends. It has been a really good experience but also very difficult. In Pittsburgh we were on a stage and in the program where here in Texas we are on the street gathering our crowds for each show. We have had to cut out some of our material because the attention span is much shorter on the street. We are also learning more of the subtle art of crowd control (dealing with drunks and children). We have met some really awesome people here at the festival. Camped next to us are the Clan Tynkers It has been awesome to meet other performers our age who we can juggle with.

We are planning on moving to Austin as soon as we can find a place. This is a picture of us outside the Long Center for the performing arts after we saw Birdhouse Factory. We should be here in Austin until May so if anyone wants to come visit please do.

will post again soon

Jules

Fire!

Wow! was that the sound of my eyebrows burning off?


What you are seeing is a photo of our last show at the Pittsburgh Renaissance Faire. We cut loose all the strings for this one and invited the Celtic band to play also. If you look close you can see Sam the drummer in the background. This fire show has been an amazing collaboration between us and Wilsome the Fire master. We call it Not Dead Yet! because of how crazy the stunts are. We will miss Dan he is off to North Carolina Ren Faire and we are now in Texas

The Texas Renaissance Faire or TRF as I will now refer to it is huge. we got to see the site for the first time today and wow! Gardens, amazing buildings and the stages are incredible. the Joust is set in a huge amphitheater which probably seats 5000 people at least.
Ok thats it for now but I promise to write regularly.

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