IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

CHARON

Charon, The Most Dangerous Beauty Alive, has performed for audiences on stage and off, in theaters and out-of-doors for nearly fifteen years, the last third of these being spent in the variety arts as a sideshow working act. She has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel and in Shocked & Amazed! Magazine swallowing swords, walking on them, cracking whips, walking on glass and eating fire. She is currently amid work on her first Bachelor’s Degree and has dispensation from her university to utilize her performance work for credit as a means to that end. She holds a 4.0. Charon delights in introducing others to the inherent strangeness of life and stirring wonder in an audience.

CHRIS McDANIEL

Texas Skip World Champion Chris McDaniel has performed in rodeos, his one-man show ran for 3 years at Opryland. He’s entertained audiences at the famous Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville, The Grand Ole Opry with Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl, and acted in many musicals including Oklahoma and The Will Rogers Follies. Most recently he played Buffalo Bill in the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun. Chris mixes trick roping and bullwhip artistry with classic Western songs like Rawhide. He began singing professionally in 1974 and toured the country as the host and star of the western music revue Ropin’ the West. His talents have been seen on the Nashville Network with Riders in the Sky, Country Music Television, and Late Show with David Letterman.

EKATERINA

Katya Sknarina is a World Champion Rhythmic Gymnast having attained this title while a member of the Russian National Team. After leaving her native country she toured Europe with Cirque du Soleil as an aerialist. Now here in the United States she is an aerialist/contortionist with Anti-Gravity and a gymnastics teacher. She’s performed in the Nuevo Variety Circus, Comedy Central and the Lucky Devil Circus Sideshow. When not performing on her own or as Throwdini’s target girl Ekaterina has appeared as a model in such famous magazines as FHM, One World, and GQ.

HARRY "THE BEST THERE EVER WAS" MUNROE

Affectionately known as “Der Werfer” (The Thrower), Harry is both a champion knife thrower — New England AKTA Champion and knife maker — designs and custom makes Throwdini Throwers. Harry holds the distinction of being the only competitor to have successfully stuck every knife thrown during his championship win.

MATT THE KNIFE

Matthew J. Cassiere is a magician… but he’s so much more than that! Conjurer, sideshow performer, mentalist, escape artist, writer, and lecturer… whatever the tagline, he can only really be described as UNBELIEVABLE! Many of his awe-inspiring feats have been thought to be completely impossible. But that’s probably why he’s been on The Discovery Channel, The BBC, and performed across seven countries. MTK is “a purveyor of artful dodges, practiced deceptions, and masterful conjurations… he supplies a visceral plethora of oddities, eccentricities and generalized wonderments.” Whether he’s reading minds, escaping from seemingly impossible restraints, swallowing swords, or just doing a card trick… you’re sure to be entertained. His performances run the gambit from whimsical to outright bawdy, discomforting to deeply frightening… surprising to that which fills one with complete and unabashed awe. Once you see him you’ll understand just how he’s come to hold three Guinness World Records™. An MTK performance explains why his “decidedly different” performances make them say that he’s the cutting edge of entertainment!

THE GREAT THROWDINI

Appropriately billed as The World’s Fastest Knife Thrower, (The Rev. Dr.) David Adamovich has won both national and world championship titles as a competition knife thrower. Inspired by Chris McDaniel and destined to take on the ultimate challenge, the “impalement arts” (throwing around a human target) Throwdini developed his cabaret routine, MAXIMUM RISK — Impalement Arts with a touch of Magic and Comedy. As a professional knife thrower he’s performed with Stars of The World Famous Moscow State Circus, on stage in the play Big Top (as himself, Throwdini playing Throwdini), at Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore, Sideshow Saturday Night with Todd Robbins and Friends, and Monday Night Magic. He’s appeared on Good Morning America, The Brini Maxwell Show, Blind Date, and Fox News ‘212’; been written about in The Daredevil’s Manual, Time Out NY, the NY Times, Newsday and NYPress; is the subject of an NYU documentary and has produced his own instructional video/DVD on knife throwing. Throwdini's claim as the world’s fastest knife thrower, throwing 2 knives per second, has yet to be successfully challenged. He is the very first impalement artist to catch knives thrown at him by his partner and one of the very few artists in the world to perform The Wheel of Death at 0.65 seconds per knife.

The World Famous Pontani Sisters

Angie, Tara and Helen Pontani are three showbiz siblings who began training for a show business career at an early age. Raised on a steady diet of MGM Technicolor Musicals, Vintage Vegas chic and dancing school, they grew up with a natural fondness for dance and all things glamorous. They first began performing professionally as a trio in 1998, where they delighted crowds with their towering fruit headdresses and in-sync high kicks. Their impeccable choreography and stitch-perfect costumes have garnered them international media attention as well as A-list bookings including a run at Las Vegas’s Venetian and headlining appearances at the largest Burlesque events in the world, including Tease-O-Rama and The New York Burlesque Festival. They have successfully completed nine national tours, been featured on the Conan O’Brien show 5 times, headlined the Crooked Mirror Cabaret as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and have done private events for such clients as Fox, Arista Records, The Guggenheim Museum, Target and dozens more. They have shared the bill with some of the most recognizable names in show business, from rock stars Bon Jovi and Blondie to Broadway legends like BeBe Neuwirth and Julie Andrews.In addition to live performance, the World Famous Pontani Sisters have released 2 DVDs, Go-Go Robics I & II. The kitschy Burlesque-inspired workout videos have become cult classics among fitness fanatics, retro enthusiasts and couch potatoes alike. The sisters are also the subjects of Showy and 5’2”, a documentary chronicling their rise to success, which made its debut at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

ULA

Ula, one half of the Pain-Proof Rubber Girls Contortion Duo Extraordinaire, would like to prove to the world that it's possible for a woman to be sweet and feminine, yet dangerous and slightly frightening at the same time. Brought into this strange field of sideshow gone awry by the group Alice and Chains, who hired her for their video "No Excuses" in 1994, she has since worked everywhere from Alice Tully Hall with Ornette Coleman, to Vienna with "Modern Primitives," to NYC Crobar for the Armani Exchange Party to Steve Harvey’s Big Time. Living her life as a combination of Conan and Flashdance, with a touch of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon mixed in, this internationally acclaimed rocker of the circus world, Big Boot and Cheap sunglasses wearing, Flaming Machete wielding, Woman with a Sledgehammer is coming your way in an '89 Chevy High Top Van.