Dan Kamin - Comedy in Motion

"You seem a little old doing pantomime, but you do it pretty good."
--David, age 8

"Part Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, mixed with Marcel Marceau, Andy Kaufman and Steve Martin. It adds up to a demented, charming and brilliant performance."
--The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

"This residency has personally and professionally been one of the outstanding moments in my career."
--Chris Moore, Springfield Arts Council

"Inventive...versatile...both comic and touching...Don't believe what you see, because you probably didn't see it anyway. In Dan Kamin's performance, truth is illusion indeed."
--Evening Herald, Plymouth, England

"Dan is a joy to work with! His unbounded energy and love of his craft resulted in a highly successful and enjoyable week-long residency that reached many people in the community who don’t normally come to our programs, particularly college students. The residency culminated in a sold-out final performance that had the audience enthralled throughout this most enjoyable evening."
--Ron Sherhofer, Olin Fine Arts Center

"Dan Kamin's 'Comedy Concerto' was just the ticket for a special New Year's Eve Concert. Dan's great choices of music and motion delighted a full house...a great experience for all!"
--Charles Weiser, Executive Director
Reading Symphony

"...provocative, serio-comic and thoroughly entertaining."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"An amazing performance...the only performer in recent years to earn a standing ovation...I strongly recommend Dan Kamin."
--Lyle Cayce, Florida State

"Hearty laughter throughout the performance and a standing ovation at the end."
--Billings Gazette

"A breathtaking display of theatricality that's sharp, funny and highly inventive."
--In Pittsburgh Weekly

"An arresting combination of physical comedy, dance, magic and speech... hilarious."
--Patriot News, Harrisburg

True story. A man, dressed in a dark business suit walked through the crowd at Mayfair. Everyone cleared a path.

"He's freaky," a young woman whispered to her boyfriend.

Some people pointed and laughed nervously.

Another woman recoiled in horror and said, "He's not funny. He scares me. He's like a dead man walking."

Then they caught on. By the end of Dan Kamin's performances Monday, he had legions of fans gathered around him. He walked real s-l-o-w-l-y and didn't utter a word. He paused, did some magic tricks and then picked up his clear, plastic briefcase. In slow motion, he tipped his hat in a courtly gesture and made his way to that board meeting he'd never reach.

"He's a mime," one woman explained.

"He's a performance artist," a young man explained to his girlfriend, who had the horrified look of someone trying hard not to stare at an accident scene, but who couldn't pull her eyes away.

Mr. Slomo, as Kamin calls his corporate android character, is part Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, mixed with Marcel Marceau, Andy Kaufman and Steve Martin. It adds up to a demented, charming and brilliant performance by a Pittsburgh man who has coached Hollywood stars in physical comedy.

Kamin is to mime what Penn and Teller are to magic. Kamin doesn't dis mimes, but he does take out the cliches of his profession.

Whatever Kamin is, he is a unique and inventive performer hired to entertain the masses throughout the last day of Mayfair, traditionally the most crowded day during Allentown's annual five-day arts festival. Organizers estimated 70,000 peope attended Monday.