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Updated 3/1/2024

janoah...anygoodjokes?

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Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

janoah...anygoodjokes? captures audience attention with circus grandeur and juggling flair, guiding spectators towards performance steeped in the more minute forms of puppetry, wordplay, contemporary dance, object theatre and storytelling. Janoah’s popular and variety arts fill fragile spaces, balancing presentation between childhood/adulthood, entertainment/philosophy, improv/choreography, passivity/participation, stage/street, silence/words …

Janoah’s juggling shows are inventive with props and attentive towards audience. He strolls interactively for festivals, unicycles energetically in parades and presents captivating performance for all ages on stages, in dance halls, at libraries, out on the street and everywhere circus belongs!

Janoah learned unicycling in the empty after-hours corridors of his middle school. He continued practicing with the Suspenders Juggling Troupe in Falmouth (MA) then traveled New England for two seasons with the Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour. Janoah graduated in 2014 from College of the Atlantic in Maine, where he grasped at and fumbled with performance-related studies: theatre, movement, objects, puppets, film, literature, carnival, gender, etc. In past summers Janoah has taught the precarious skills of letting things fall and picking them up again at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro (MA).

Janoah now instructs students near Portland (ME) how to juggle, perform and drop things playfully. He has trained contemporary dance through the Bates, Lion's Jaw and Fresh Festivals. In 2016 he helped open The Living Room Dance Collective, a creative movement space in Portland. During the school year he choreographs and trains the Gym Dandies, a long-running unicycle/circus after-school program based in Scarborough (ME). During summers Janoah teaches unicycling for the Children's Circus of Middletown (CT).

Janoah also performs variety arts and unicycling all over New England, leaving behind a wake of tumbled juggling props! He currently presents two variety shows: SpinS, which toured to seven Canadian Fringe Festivals during the summer of 2019 (described as "The most awkwardly impressive thing you will see all year" by Theatre in London), and meSSeS, in which the audience learns to juggle during the show! Janoah has been awarded three NEDF grants and one Public Art Learning Fund from NEFA, 3 Project Grants for Artists from the Maine Arts Commission (MAC), as well as the MAC's 2020 Fellowship in the Performing Arts.

Find Me

Janoah Bailin (ze/zir/zir)
Job Title: Creator/Performer/Instructor
Phone: 508-388-4329
Address:
79 Dartmouth St. Apt 1
Portland, ME 04103

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Theater - Circus

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Venue Rental
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Professional Development / Training
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Wedding / Parties / Private Gatherings
  • Community Arts
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 50

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel
  • Youth-At-Risk

Languages Available:

  • French

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • International Jugglers' Association
  • Unicycling Society of America

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • International Jugglers' Association
  • Unicycling Society of America

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • Maine Arts Commission Project Grant for Artists
  • Maine Arts Commission Fellowship (Performing Arts)
  • Public Art Learning Fund

Education

Education:

  • BA in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • Maine Arts Commission Teaching Artist

Fee range:

$150 - $1,200

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • Maine Arts Commission Teaching Artist

Fee range:

$150 - $1,200

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Maine Teaching Roster

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • sound system
  • 15x20' stage or performance space
  • 12' ceiling

Fee Range:

$300 - $3,000

State of Residence:

Maine

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

1