Albert Ayler, The Beatles, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cream, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Fugazi, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Charles Mingus, Jackie Mittoo, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Nation of Ulysses, Negativland, Sun Ra, Ernest Ranglin, The Skatalites, Sonny Sharrock, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Cecil Taylor, Television, Pete Townshend, The Who
Movies
Charles Chaplin, Fredrico Felini, Terry Gilliam, Jim Henson, Tsui Hark, Terry Jones, Buster Keaton, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Ang Lee, The Marx Brothers, Jacques Tati
Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (the new version), Doctor Who (both old and new), Farscape, FLCL, Frontline, Futurama, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Muppet Show, Northern Exposure, The Prisoner, The Young Ones
Books
Iain Banks, Richard Brautigan, Bertold Brecht, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Dario Fo, Edward Foster, Gilgamesh (check out the David Ferry translation/adaptation), Robert Graves (his two volume The Greek Myths is an essential reference), Homer (the one who played for the Acheans-- I recommend the Robert Fitzgerald translation of the Odyssey), Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary O'Donoghue, Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare, and dear old et cetera.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill,Massachusetts
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Philosophy
1992 to 1995
Suny College At Purchase
Purchase,New York
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Philosophy
Clubs: Philosophy Club, The Load, Student Union, WPUR, roadie for Umoja, tunnel explorer
Do you need physical comedy or an otherworldly character? I am a mime and mime instructor, available for stage, film, video, and events both as a performer and choreographer.
I am also available to teach workshops.
• Mime and mime instructor. Ability to choreograph and perform.
• MoCap actor experienced with both gyroscopic and optical systems.
•~i>Circuit~/i>, in production.
• Mime and mime instructor. Ability to choreograph and perform.
• MoCap actor experienced with both gyroscopic and optical systems.
•~i>Circuit~/i>, in production.
Ian's Companies
Cosmic Spelunker Theater Boston, MA US Co-Artistic Director
About me: Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater, a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001.
Ian also appears in the film, Circuit, currently in production, and recently played the role of a foppish highschool classics teacher in The Adventures of CMYK.
Have you heard the story about the event promoter who advertises a reluctant artist with the full expectation that it will force the artist to perform at an event, even after the artist says, "no?" No? With the internet and just a little bit of insanity, anything is possible!
Who I'd like to meet: (the proper phrase is "Whom I'd like to meet:") Dario Fo, Terry Gilliam, Bill Irwin, Franca Rame.
If we do not know one another and you think we should be friends, please send a message along with your friend request so that I know who you are.
...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy, that won't throw its heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...
Hi Ian
Come check out this exclusive FREE Download of the song "Meet Me In The Old Marketplace'"! From Frank London's"A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE" Available for a limited time only at: www.SoundbrushExclusive.com
Why you've answered the $1.98 question correctly Mr. Thal! Quite excellent. I figured no one would know ... though knowing it's Peter Cushing is somewhat easy, knowing the series is a bit more challenging! Sorry I missed you on T-giving ... I was in NYC harassing Kevin!!
"The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become." (Alex Grey)
May you become the spirit within which inspires you most, leaving behind all the fleshy suffering that is counterproductive. May you suffer well in that state of blissful agony, creating masterpieces of magnificent prismatic crystal out of the tears long cried.
Love is the Tai Chi of Agony And Bliss. Live, love and suffer passionate beauty, making your "Being" the work of transcendent art it was meant to be.
