Dan works with presenters to create residencies that rock! Forget master classes. Because of his subversive sense of humor and strange skills, Dan is able to bring his art directly to the people in some unlikely settings. Here are a few examples. And for a full account of a model residency, click here.

Scenes from a mall. When Dan takes a stroll through the local mall-- in hypnotic slow motion--people do double takes. This makes for a great photo op for the local news team.

Emergency medicine. "Dr. Dan" keeps everyone in at the hospital in stitches, including the hard-working staff.

Sit down and shut up. Dan often appears before Rotary or other business and community organizations as a speaker for whom things go horribly, embarrassingly wrong. Imagine a stress management expert who becomes tenser and tenser. Or a new city planner with some bizarre plans for the city. After the laughs Dan gets serious, outlining his work in the community and speaking as an ambassador of the arts.

Silent sermon. Dan has preached many a sermon in mime as part of church or synagogue services. It's a great way to spread the gospel of the arts and let people know that something's up in the community.

Class clown. Dan's school assembly programs get students excited about theatre. He even holds dreaded middle-school groups spellbound.

Go directly to jail. Dan has brought his art to prisons, mental hospitals and juvenile facilities. He delights in performing for at-risk, in-need or outlying populations who normally don't get the chance to experience the arts.

Get a job. Dan can work his magic on factory floors and other workplace environments.

Funny bones. The man who trained Robert Downey, Jr. for his Oscar nominated performance in Chaplin leads the audience into the enchanted comic world of Charlie Chaplin. You'll never look at comedy the same again after experiencing this program!

Sure, he'll do master classes. Of course, Dan offers lively master classes in movement and physical comedy for all ages and levels of experience.

Get into the act! You know your community. Conspire with Dan to shake it up.

A RESIDENCY THAT ROCKED

Dan's recent trip to Colorado Springs proved how a well-designed residency can generate public awareness and new audiences for the arts. This exemplary residency resulted in a sell-out crowd at the 2000-seat Pike's Peak Center for the Performing Arts (people were actually turned away at the box office).

The residency was organized by the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, the area's premier presenter of theatre for young audiences. Masterminds Mary "the Merciless" Mashburn and Beth Fox-Kret collaborated with Dan to create a model residency week.

It began at a high school, where an anthrax scare an hour before the show did nothing to curb the students' enthusiasm for Dan's movement and sleight-of-hand skills (the mystery package turned out to be an innocuous PR tape from the Saudi Arabian embassy). As the week wore on, Dan put on a special silent program at the School for the Deaf, visited the hospital as the goofy "Dr. Dan," and appeared on television and radio. He took a slow-motion stroll through a shopping mall, startling shoppers and generating more buzz about his presence in town.

Mid-week, Dan presented his Charlie Chaplin program, Funny Bones. Several hundred people showed up for an evening of insight and laughter, featuring classic Chaplin clips and Dan's own comic moves, accompanied live by local composer-reporter-pianist Mark Arnesta.

The sponsor of the residency, Fleet Credit Card Corporation, was treated to one of Dan's favorite scams, his stressed-out stress-management expert. Expecting a class, employees instead learned that the best kind of stress reduction is laughter.

During all this Dan had been steadily rehearsing one of his Comedy Concertos, The Classical Clown, with conductor Gary Nicholson and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony. Their hard work together was rewarded at week's end, as cheers and laughter accompanied their sold-out performance at Pike's Peak Center.

All in all, it was a memorable week in Pike's Peak.

dan@dankamin.com