Anon Salon Presents “Cirk-O-Six” New Year’s Eve Theatrical/Burlesque/DJ Extravaganza At The Historic Los Angeles Theatre Saturday, December 31, 2005

Los Angeles, CA - This New Year's Eve, San Francisco/LA-based event producers, Anon Salon are expanding on the long running success of their legendary “Sea of Dreams” New Year's Eve event series by raising the bar with this year’s theatrical event, “Cirk-O-Six.” The chosen venue for this year’s spectacle will be none other than the historic Los Angeles Theatre. Built in 1931, it is the most extravagant of the ornate movie palaces built on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. Considered one of the finest movie palaces in the world, the theatre and its labyrinth of party rooms will exploit this year’s burlesque theme providing ongoing theatre performances with some of LA’s top DJs and live musical favorites through out the night. This New Year’s Eve, celebrate the new Renaissance of downtown LA as Anon Salon brings one of most lavish and historical theatres from the Golden Age back to life with world-renowned cutting edge, avant-garde cirque performers and burlesque troupes. The Los Angeles Theatre is located at 615 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014. The event will take place on Saturday, December 31, 2005 from 8:00pm – 4:00am and guests must be at least 21-years-old to enter. Advance tickets start at $60.00. Please call 213-617-8473 or visit www.sodla.com for more information. For the entire glorious history and a virtual 3-D online tour of the venue please visit www.losangelestheatre.com.




Cirk-O-Six will merge this theatrical experience with its extensive audience-base of costumed revelers to create a unique and participatory evening of entertainment. Additionally, there will be a full art gallery space attached to one of the downstairs ballrooms that will house a large art exhibit of cirque and burlesque themed works curated by Mike Russek, co-founder of Transport Art Gallery and founder of the Six Degrees Festival (www.sixdegreesfestival.com). Inspired lighting design and an interactive environment will be created by Los Angeles event and décor wizards, The Do Labs (www.thedolab.com).




The “Cirk-O-Six” Performers:

¬ On The Theatre Stage:

The Buxoticas of Lucha Va Voom
Lucha Va Voom is the hot new ticket from LA, combining burlesque, comedy and costumed classic “super hero” Mexican wrestlers. Lucha Va Voom has toured the country recently selling out 2 nights at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles and invited to perform at the annual Comedy Festival in Las Vegas this year.



Lucent Dossier
Full production over-the-edge performance art troupe specializing in vaudeville and circus shenanigans with visionary costuming and unique choreography and mesmerizing dance.

Cirque Berzerk
Cirque Berzerk is the cirkus for the misled, misunderstood and the generally maladjusted. Cirque Berzerk is the darker side of cirkus that has pulled together some of the hottest circus acts in LA who come from many local performance troupes as well as Cirque du Soleil. Cirque Berzerk produces cirque dinner theatres, all night circus themed parties and debuted their latest cirkus show under their very own 3-story tall big-top at Burning Man 2005.




Skin
Aerial performance, combining multi-media with live/electronica.

March Forth
High-energy, eclectic and mobile unit of good times, taking a Fellini-esque mix of Mardi Gras mayhem, afro beat, Mexican hustle, sultry samba, and big band, all accompanied by their surrealist troupe of stilt-dancers and costumed beauties, they are the new love-party paradigm.


¬ Live Music From:

Rosin Coven - Music from the Pagan Lounge, and Burning Man

Gooferman (KloWNifIED Chop-Hop)

Alcyone (Deep Chunky Grooves) w/ Suzanne Sterlingirgin

DMT (Guerilla Audio Science)

Helios Jive (Heliosentric Jazz)


¬ Dancerotica DJ Zones:

David Starfire (LABA, Space Island)

Patricio (LABA, Space Island)

Ooah (LABA, BoomBox)

Vordo (Abstrakt, SF)

Les Shill (Church of Wow)

(other performers TBA)


¬ History of Anon Salon:

Anon Salon, over the course of its 15-year existence, has helped redefine West Coast event production by producing hundreds of unique theme parties, theatre festivals, art shows and even street fairs for Burning Man fans in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company was born out of San Francisco’s alternative art and performance scene of the 1980’s. From the beginning, they helped shape an ever-growing community of multi-media artists and event producers into a network of non-commercial, unadvertised, one-off events and large public gatherings. Unlike conventional concert, club or theatrical events, these one-off gatherings were specialized one-of-a-kind theme party/events. Production laden and technologically cutting edge, they included not-only music, but also performance artists, installations, lighting and video artists, theatrics and unique décor, that quickly began to attract an audience that brought their own ideas to the mix. The evolution of their party spectacles has always reflected the changing face of the creative community. As their website asserts, "Anon Salon teases technology, embraces the arts, and flirts with the unknown. … It celebrates all that's eclectic and electric in art, design, and media providing a place to grab new ideas before business-as-usual turns them into formulas.”

Anon founders, Joegh Bullock and Marcia Crosby have been central to San Francisco's alternative and underground art scene since the late 1970's. Besides Anon Salon, their endeavors include the GlasHaus parties of the mid-1980's, Icon Byte Bar and Grill (the first Internet bar and cafe in SF), the award-winning Climate Theatre, and the world famous Solo Mio performance festival. More recently, Bullock has co-created and co-produced San Francisco-based Burning Man Festival parties such as Flambé Lounge and the Decompression Heat the Street Faire.

In the early 1990's, they joined forces with then actor/director Mark Petrakis, known as “Spoonman” (from his popular alternative vaudeville revues called “Cobra Lounge”). An early web developer, already a part of the burgeoning technology scene, Petrakis was also responsible for Telecircus.com, a 1994 San Francisco arts community website that provided the first web presence for Burning Man, the Residents, Clubfoot Orchestra and many others.

Artist, event producer and social provocateur, Mark Bava from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Area entered the mix further bringing together audiences from communities from Humboldt to San Diego. Los Angeles residents have been familiar with Bava for the past few years as co-owner of Little Pedro’s Blue Bongo bar and nightclub in downtown LA’s Artist District. He is also one of the founders of the LA Burning Man Decompression Street Fair, and Oracle Millennium.

LA partner and co-producer, Stephen Samojeden is an east coast transplant who got his start in event productions in Colorado in the early Nineties. Working with friends, he helped create Sol Productions, which grew to be one of the largest event production companies in the state. More recently he has helped create dozens of alternative art events in the Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles areas, including the yearly Los Angeles Burning Man Decompression Street Fairs.

Since its debut on NYE 2000, Anon Salon’s “Sea of Dreams” event has been known as the must-see event for the in-the-know “cultural creatives,” attracting over 3,000 attendees each year to the sold out San Francisco events and last year’s first LA event.

This New Year’s Eve, the Anon Salon team will once again combine their talents and experience in the raising of “Cirk-O-Six.”


¬ The Los Angeles Theatre:

The Los Angeles Theatre is one of the most beautiful Movie Palaces in America, and this is a rare opportunity to revel in the glory of early Los Angeles.

The historic Los Angeles Theatre was the last and most extravagant of the ornate movie palaces built on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles between 1911 and 1931. Designed by architect S. Charles Lee with a French Baroque-inspired décor, its majestic six-story main lobby and 2,000 seat auditorium of carved plaster ornamentation, mirrors, and cove-lit murals recall the glamorous days of 1930s Hollywood.

In January 1931, Charlie Chaplin held the premiere of his City Lights at the theatre as its debut event. It is said that Chaplin invested his own money to finish the theatre in time for his film's premiere. Opening night was a glittering affair, with Chaplin in attendance, scores of dignitaries, and even Albert Einstein. Outside, a crowd estimated at over 25,000 thronged Broadway to get a glimpse of the celebrities. The Depression brought a tinge of irony to this celebration of sumptuous luxury, as part of the crowd outside waited in a bread line across the street.

No expense was spared in the decor of the Los Angeles, which included crystal chandeliers, marble, gold leaf, silk damask wall coverings, walnut paneling and an extraordinary fountain of marble and crystal in the upper lobby. The main lobby of the theatre, with its soaring 50-foot ceiling, chandeliers and grand staircase, was a welcome departure from earlier cramped theatre lobbies. It was Lee's plan that the main lobby and basement lounges together could accommodate a group of 2,000 people waiting for the next showing.

Lee designed the theatre with many special features for the comfort and delight of patrons, including a children's playroom; a refreshment room with a soda fountain; two 'crying rooms' on the mezzanine level: where mothers and their infants could watch the show in a glassed-in booth with its own speaker, air conditioning controls and a rest room, and much more including the most technologically advanced lighting, sound, projection, PA, and neon-seating-lighting of its day.

In recent decades it has become a unique location for filming and video. It has been used in several feature films, including New York, New York, Jim Carrey’s Man on the Moon, Chaplin, Charlie’s Angels II, and recently Cinderella Man. As Downtown finds a renewal of energy and life, driven by the recent influx of new residents inhabiting the old buildings and lofts of the downtown historic district, the Los Angeles Theatre looks forward to opening its doors to a new century of theatre goers.