She is a recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA program and current studnet in Technology and Innovation EdM program at Harvard. Her work has been featured at Movement Research at Judson Church, Second City Chicago and The Hemispheric Performance Institute at NYU. Her work has been awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Idea Fund Grant and been called the "Top Ten Dance Phenomena of Austin". Particularly interested in people who have movement/ dance/ performance art backgrounds.Ĭhristina Sukhgian Houle is an award winning director and choreographer. Looking for performers and nonperformers alike. ![]() All Rights Reserved.This performance for the Jewish Museum's current exhibit "Repetition and Difference" will feature multiple performers reperforming Andy Kaufman's Elvis impersonations in a scripted 1 act play to be performed in front of a live audience.ĭiversity is key to the casting and individuals of all ages, ethnicities, genders and body types are encouraged to apply. In 1992 the actor Jim Carrey starred in a film about Kaufman, Man on the Moon. Kaufman died of lung cancer, although he was not a smoker, and countless fans doubted his death, thinking he had staged it as the ultimate Andy Kaufman stunt. ![]() Kaufman suffered neck and back injuries in a bout with a professional male wrestler, Jerry Lawler, who was reportedly angered by Kaufman's disparaging on-air remarks about "professional" wrestling, and challenged him. More than 60 women accepted the challenge, and Kaufman claimed that he never lost, although he fought some to a draw. On Saturday Night Live, he affected what he called a Puerto Rican accent, recited nonsensical verse, and got the audience to imitate barnyard animals while he sang "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." Kaufman outraged feminists with a character he called the Intergender World Wrestling Champion, in which guise Kaufman offered $1,000 to any woman who could pin him in a match. Latka was an immigrant auto mechanic in the taxi garage who spoke in a high-pitched accent that Kaufman concocted, and indulged in a bewildering array of personality changes. In 1978, Kaufman began playing the part of Latka Gravas on the ABC television network show Taxi. He would read The Great Gatsby to the audience in its entirety, sing all verses of "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall," or impersonate a fictitious Las Vegas lounge singer named Tony Clifton. He has sometimes been called an 'anti-comedian'. While often called a 'comedian', Kaufman preferred to describe himself instead as a 'song and dance man'. His comedy act often caused his audience to become rowdy or to simply walk out in the middle of his show. Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an American entertainer and performance artist. He was believed to be the first person to publicly, and repeatedly, perform in the garb and persona of Elvis Presley, and his impersonation was believed to be a Presley favorite. After appearing on the inaugural telecast of Saturday Night Live in 1975, he became famous as a comedian who provoked nervous laughter, if any at all. ![]() Kaufman lived in a hazy borderland between comedy and performance art. A collection of Andy Kaufmans Greatest moments and Skits TAXI CAUSE HE HATED IT'Including. He graduated in 1971 from the now defunct Grahm Junior College in Boston, where he studied television. Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was born in New York and grew up in suburban Long Island.
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