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The Balloon Man

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This Argentinian moved to California 15 years ago. He has developed an extraordinary act with a big balloon - big enough for him to get inside! Seeing is believing!
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Radar Two - I Eat Pandas
During the day, Eliza Skinner works on Wall Street and Glennis McMurray teaches and appears in commercials, but at night they bound on stage as the critically acclaimed I Eat Pandas. In regular performances across the US, including the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in LA and NYC, they create shows that consist of three completely different, completely improvised musicals in just 25, 15 and 5 minutes, all based on a single suggestion from the audience. Currently starring in promos for Showtime and writing an eight part musical via their video blogs, we talk to them about balancing day jobs with rising comedy careers, and what it takes to create as a duo on the fly.
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Moscow Cat Theater (Marilyn Agrelo)
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more unusual circus, or father-daughter performing duo. The Moscow Cat Theatre is just that: a travelling show of cats that perform amazing tricks for the owners who love and train them. Everybody in Russia may be used to seeing cats perform tricks, as the theatre’s manager explains in this funny, charming film, but felines walking tightropes, crossing the stage on giant balls and walking upside down is not a common sight in most countries. As a balalaika and accordion circus score plays in the background, Creative Director Vladimir and his daughter Maria combine their love of cats and stage to create a captivating act and illustrate the tricks of the trade – giving new meaning to the expression ‘herding cats’.
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Radar Five - SLAM Theater
While evenings of spontaneous, timed creativity are becoming more and more popular in NYC, only one brings together actors, writers and directors for evenings of in-house collaboration in a completely inclusive environment. At SLAM theater anyone can walk through the door to perform, or with a script, or simply to be entertained. Actors are chosen randomly and directors have three, then fifteen minutes to showcase their work, completely unrehearsed. Audiences feedback, a panel of judges score, and writers voted onto the next round are able to unveil more of their play. The atmosphere is riotous and anything goes, especially fun.
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My Girl Can Fight (Justin Frimmer)
Father and daughter in East Los Angeles discover they are fighting for each other inside and outside the ring.
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Radar Thirty-Six: Start Trekkin 
Start Trekkin is a New York based long form improv group centered around the original Star Trek television series. Start Trekkin examines humanity through the medium of the popular 60’s television show, using it as a pop-reference point for the human experience. Using scattered suggestions from the audience, the Troupe will perform a 60 minute live show, manipulating the staples of the galactic series, such as melodrama and comedy, all the way through stage combat and downright sillyness. True to form, they address the human condition, using a surprising yet familiar vessel, with original characters and off-the-cuff situations, telling a story we can all identify with.
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Radar Thirty: Story Pirates
The Story Pirates are a Theater Troupe like none other. Their stage is birthday parties, Public Schools and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Story Pirates combine education, writing, music and performance to excite kids about creative writing. By bringing the kids into the writing of the performance, they are able to stimulate creativity through storytelling, as well as build the confidence a child needs to continue to be creative. The kids are able to see the fruits of their labor live on stage, as the Story Pirates compose original music and a full script, performing the very words the children wrote themselves.
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Mean, Old God
A Greek God retires to a second story apartment in Los Angeles.
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Mind the Gap
Matthew, a young homeless man sleeping in an alley, wakes up to a random act of cruelty, as his shoes are violently stolen from him. Matthew roams the streets of Downtown Los Angeles, searching for shelter, food, but mostly looking for an attentive someone to share with his misfortune, while daydreaming about an alternative reality for himself. Begging for people's spare change, Mathew is ignored, and fails in establishing a real connection with anyone who passes by him. Passively resisting his faith, Matthew's mind shifts between reality and dream, which seem to exist in parallel lines, where the boundaries between the dreamer and the dream blend together. Drifting away in his thoughts and in the streets, Mathew ends up at an alley, where he coincidentally meets a young homeless woman, with whom he shares a special bond.
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Bambi Killers perform their live act Green Fairy at Fontanas in NYC, May 2009. To see more Bambi Killers, watch Radar Episode 12.
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Radar Six - Cut & Paste
Design has not normally been thought of as a performance art, but Cut & Paste are looking to change that. For the last two years John Fiorelli and his team have been traveling the globe, taking the concept of live digital design to more and more communities. Now, in 16 cities across the world, designers compete onstage in a battle for supremacy and the chance to win the global championships. In a series of quickfire rounds they create original works from scratch, and are judged by a jury of esteemed peers from agencies and brands. We follow Ryan Kennedy (Designer, Deep Focus) as he prepares to partake in the NYC tournament, and talk to John about why he constructed a place for designers to create in public.
 

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