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I offer CONTORTION DANCE JAMMING to your music! I fearlessly perform with musicians and on the spot, in the moment, flexibly freestyle improvise to ideally 7-8 minutes or more of music. This has never failed and audiences just love it! I only need a small space of 4’ by 8’ to move in which means I can dance in almost any venue!
My movements to your music will dazzle the audience with an unusually different added visual dimension, like never before!
July 31, 2010, The Amazing Amy won FIRST PRIZE in the Coney Island Talent Show in the Circus Freaks and Side Show Geeks category!!
http://www.thirstygirlproductions.com/pdf/talent_show_results.pdf
May 14, 2011, Amazing Amy won THIRD PRIZE in the Highway to Health Music For a Better America Talent Competition - Adult Category - performing Techno Trance Yoga Dance!! http://highwaytohealthfestival.com/NY/NYCHighwaytoHealthResults.pdf
The Amazing Amy - now the subject of a VIDEO DOCUMENTARY! VIEW PROFESSIONALLY SHOT AND EDITED SHORT FILM ABOUT ME AND MY PERFORMANCES! (Shot March 2011)
Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City.
See the project at http://mediastorm.com/training/the-amazing-amy
Participating in this documentary was one of the best experiences of my life! I hope I get gigs from it but even if I don't, I'll have memories and a record of my work I can treasure forever. THANKS SO MUCH!
Yoga Yenta: My Yiddishe Yoga, Kosher Kontortion, is a featured character in the documentary film, ‘Punk Jews’ (2012), produced by Evan Kleinman, (IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172029/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), http://www.punkjews.com/about/
Amazing Amy appears on TV on Discovery's Science Channel 'Oddities' Program Season 2: The Horaffe, third segment. See it here! http://science.discovery.com/videos/oddities-the-horaffe-videos/
Amazing Amy, Contortionist appeared on Law and Order: SVU, Episode ‘Strange Beauty’, air date, Wed., May 16, 2012, 10 PM (NBC TV/Universal) http://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit/video/
Amazing Amy Contortion Dances in MUSIC VIDEO: Lil Jon feat. LMFAO - Drink (Official Video), shot Jan. 2012 and can be seen on my website and on You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxAKCYSXd5U
The Amazing Amy (Harlib) is over 60 years young and proud of showing what she can do despite her age. She has spent a life time studying all forms of movement and physical theater and became attracted to Chinese martial arts, acrobatics and Yoga in the early 1980s and parlayed that into a solo performance career that took her to Taiwan and back to her native NYC environs to perform in a wide variety of venues until 1994 when injuries forced her to retire with a disintegrated disc in her spine, torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders and arthritis that necessitated a total left hip replacement in 1998. All that time Amy never stopped her Yoga and so hated not performing, that she's using her extreme flexibility and zany imagination to relaunch her career starting in Mar. 2009! A right hip replacement in Jan. 2015, dislocated in April 2015 has not stopped her! Already The Amazing Amy has appeared at the Downtown Clown Revue, The Bindlestiff Family Circus Open Variety Show at the Galapagos Arts Space, Cirque Off! at Triskelion Arts Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, The House of Yes, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and The Gong Show Live! at B. B. King's, NYC and at The Cutting Room, NYC.
The Amazing Amy's Yoga Odyssey was part of the ensemble show Flight 18 running Thurs.-Sun. from Mar. 6 - April 4th at the South Street Seaport.
http://www.flight18.net/
http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2010/april/566_flight-18-lifts-off.html
Amazing Amy is the ONLY Contortionist in the world who has created Yoga Dance acts with special themes and characters and offers a large repertoire (all acts run approx. 6-7 minutes in length), including: YOGA ODYSSEY (pure movement, no gimmicks, celebrating the beauty of flowing flexibility); YOGA TREK: To Boldly Stretch Where Few Fifty Plus Year Olds Have Stretched Before (all Star Trek themed Yoga Act!); YOGA YENTA: My Yiddishe Yoga (What if Fanny Brice and Molly Goldberg could do Yoga? Have I got an act for you! slightly over 7 minutes of spectacular, yoga contortions with comedic flair, performed to live klezmer music and sprinkled with verbal Yiddishisms (or without speaking if you prefer); JEDI YOGA: Stretching From a Galaxy Far, Far Away (all Star Wars themed Yoga act); YOGA TANGO; TRIBAL YOGA (contortion and belly dance combined!); SPOOKY YOGA (for Halloween or Friday the 13th); YULETIDE YOGA; YOGANIME! (contortion to music from Japanese anime features); TECHNO TRANCE YOGA DANCE; YOGA COUGAR (flirts outrageously with the audience to Pink Panther theme music, hot pink feather boa included!); YOGA BLUES; JAZZY YOGA and MORE!! Some of my acts require LIVE music and I work with musicians who are guaranteed talented and their fee is included in my fee. NEW! THE BENDY BUCCANEER! Yo Ho Yoga! Stretching Across the Seven Seas! Kooky Corsair Contortion! Pirate-themed comedy contortion with goofy costume, props and piratical patter to CD of music from Pirates of the Caribbean!
Also NEW! Avante Yogarde: The Leading Limber Edge of Contortion and Music (improvisational dance jams with any kind of live music - anything can happen!) AND ‘A Gift of Yogratitude’, plus 'Crotchety Old Kitty' distinctly different style, character-driven, clown contortion acts!
I am more than eager to perform my act as is or to blend it in and combine my skills with other acts to meet the presenter's needs.
Amy is also a lifelong, avid reader of SF and fantasy literature, art and graphic novels - and loves to indulge in her passion for reading and cinema (especially the silent clowns). She lives in Chelsea, welcomes intelligent feedback and discussion about the genre
