Check out this awesome video about Manipulate Festival 2024 and Ruxy’s Pickled Republic mention on TV!
The Unicorn Christmas Party teaser trailer is here!
The new Pickled Republic trailer is here!
Thanks Paul Maguire for your work on this!
Our new Two in a Barrel trailer is here!
Rux and Roll - video collaboration with Rosie Brown - is here!
In spring 2021, I collaborated with Caledonia TV producer Rosie Brown on devising and filming a short video.
We both want to see more female physical comedians on TV, especially in children’s programmes, so we decided to have some fun and film something ourselves! Here is the video, masterfully edited by Rosie and friend.
Thank You, Rosie! Can’t wait to make more funny things with you!
The Refs - Obstacle Courses Commission by Starcatchers
As part of their Big Inspirations online lockdown programme for young ones and their families, Starcatchers have commissioned The Refs team (Ruxy and Sarah Rose Graber) to create a mini web series of obstacle courses for wee ones aged 0-5 and their families. We were honoured to work with Starcatchers on this project and to have some fun with these characters again. Case in point - our blooper reel!
You can find all three of The Refs - Obstacle Courses videos here: https://www.starcatchers.org.uk/big-inspirations/the-refs/
Hello players! Are you ready to tackle The Refs Ultimate Obstacle Course Challenge? Turn your living room; hallway; garden or even the park into an obstacle course – Tank and Bogie are here with all the flags and whistles to help little ones 0-5 and their grown-ups create the ultimate playing space! Let your wee athletes show off their sporting talents as they crawl, run, roll or even toddle their way to the finish line achieving world-class physical performance under the expert guidance of their grown-ups. Watch the films together; pause and play as much as you like! Please share your sporting achievements with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We’d love to see your creative obstacles and victory dances!
So, what are you waiting for….Ready, Steady…GO!
National Theatre of Scotland Play Dates Commission - Storify and Unicorn Dance Party
We were commissioned by NTS to create 2 short web series for young audiences and families as part of their lockdown programme Play Dates. We created Storify and Unicorn Dance Party - conceived, devised, and performed by Ruxy and Sarah Rose, all filmed in Sarah Rose’s Apartment during Covid lockdown in Spring/Summer 2020.
Storify - How to create stories
Theatre makers Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxy Cantir lead a series of interactive videos about how to create and tell stories at home. Imaginations will be unleashed and stories created from everyday surroundings. From using different story structures and bringing characters to life to discovering new and exciting ways to engage with the objects at home, each new episode will result in at least one original tale to share with friends and family. For ages 5+
FInd all 8 episodes here, FREE to all: https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/storifyUnicorn Dance Party
An inclusive new video series from Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxy Cantir about finding the joy within us. Everyone has an inner unicorn, but sometimes it takes a bit of dancing to bring it out! Join Melody and Luna as they celebrate what makes us unique by groovin’ around our homes.Each episode will highlight different, fun ways to move our bodies and uncover inspiration from the spaces and materials around us. So pop on some sweet tunes because there’s a party around every corner and a bit of unicorn magic inside all of us! For all ages
Find all 7 episodes here, FREE to all: https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/unicorn-dance-party
“Two in a Barrel” Teaser
"Two in a Barrel" is a clown-inspired, physical theatre performance for young audiences about the waste we create, the destructive consequences of our habits, and co-existing in an environment with limited resources. Two lively quirky best friends - Riri and Moku - are confined to a barrel sitting on top of an island of rubbish in the ocean. They love finding treasures in the vast waste that surrounds them and making up their own world of adventure and imagination. Every little discarded thing can be transformed into a magical trinket that starts a fun game. But being in tight quarters means they face new challenges, like having to ration their food and learning to coexist. Danger arises when the waste around them continues to pile higher and threatens to cover them altogether. By looking at mass consumerism and the destructive effects (non bio-degradable) waste has on our environment, this Beckett-meets-Pixar show poses questions about the trash we produce and invokes awareness and environmental activism.
Created and performed by: Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxandra Cantir
Music - The Free Music Archive - Creative Commons and other licenses
Bête Noire
“Cantir delivers a masterclass in how poignancy and hilarity can exist hand-in-hand.” (Kelly Apter in The List)
Parr lives in an attic. Parr encountered a dust bunny the other day in the attic and nearly had a heart attack. Parr has a hard time living life. Parr is not of this world. Parr lives on the fringe. The fringe suits Parr. Please don’t phone Parr.
Created and performed by Ruxandra Cantir, with support from Clown Cabaret Scratch Night.
This act has played at Cirque du Schwazee in Arcata, California, USA; Clown Cabaret Scratch Night (Autumn 2016) at Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland; Red Pearl Female Clown Festival (February 2018) in Helsinki, Finland (as part of the Clown Cabaret Scratch Night Bursary); and at Clown Cabaret Special Edition for manipulate Visual Theatre Festival (February 2019) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The video presented here was taken during the Clown Cabaret Scratch Night show at Tron Theatre in 2016.
Trailer of The Dirty Laundry Campaign
Created with support from SURGE and Creative Scotland, performed at festivals in Scotland in 2017 and 2018, including SOLAS Festival, Merchant City Festival 2017, and Edinburgh Fringe Street Events.
Created and performed by Ruxandra Cantir and Sarah Rose Graber, with support from Alan RIchardson.
Goldona, the Pickled Tomato
An excerpt of Pickled Republic - Ruxy’s solo show, played at the Clown Cabaret Scratch Night in June 2017
Pickled Republic follows the tragi-comic journey of a few mysterious characters who struggle to find some sense of purpose in their warped world. Whether it be a pickled tomato lamenting in a jar or a forgotten royalty who seeks the unthinkable, each character is trying to calm their anguish before it all ends.
Nobody is graceful when faced with demise. Grace is overrated, anyway.
Relish in an unearthly cross between Eugene Ionesco and The Big Lebowski.
The show is still in development and has previously been supported by Creative Scotland, SURGE, and Clown Cabaret Scratch Night.
Gregor, the Magnificent Mountain Climber at the Clown Cabaret Scratch Night (April 2016) Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
See the video of the entire performance to the left here. Gregor J. Everest begins at 43:05.
The 2015 Instant Acts Tour
In September and October of 2015, Ruxy toured Germany and Northern Italy as part of the Instant Acts Cast (performer and teacher). Instant Acts is an initiative against violence and racism organized every year by Berlin-based non-profit Arts Organization Inter Kunst. 14 artists from all over the world come together every Fall and perform and teach workshops to children and youth in German and Italian schools and prisons.
To the left here, a little taste of the tour, Gregor at 5:04! More info on the project and photos under the Recent Heading in the Menu.
A 5-minute presentation for the Ruxy-led Comedy Workshop in Ilmenau (Germany). Here with fellow performer, Hula Hooper, and Clown from Croatia, Marko Kalc.
The famed Spit Bit with Gregor (Ruxy) and Mayo (Amelia) from Summit Fever, here with Amelia Van Brunt of Bad Bad Bunny Company. At Dell'Arte International at the Mothership Thesis Festival of 2013.
Video teaser with cast of Elisabeth's Book - a Dell'Arte Company Project.
Elisabeth' Book is an original physical theatre piece with few words, centered around images, objects, and relationships, and developed collaboratively with the actors and the director/designer. It is an exploration of friendship under conditions that test the will to survive.
Conceived by Joan Schirle
Performed and devised by Joan Schirle, Laura Munoz, Ruxandra Cantir
Directed and Design by Alain Schons
Summit Fever, thesis at Dell'Arte, the threesome also known as Falling Fools Ensemble. Trailer Video (Left) and the entire 25-minute show below. Ruxy as Gregor the Climber, Anthony Arnista as Smog, Amelia Van Brunt as Mayo.
Summit Fever follows the journey of three grotesque clowns in a treacherous and highly physical ascent of Mount Everest. Tattered and beaten down, Smog, Gregor, and Mayo have been together on the tallest mountain on Earth for too long - constantly attempting to summit the elusive peak for what feels like, or may be, eternity. The clowns endure blizzards, avalanches, excruciating cold and pain, and most horrible of all, each other's company. All for a chance at the view on top of the world and the glory it comes with.
Ruxy as Parr and Darci Fulcher as Beatrice in their cabaret piece Del Boca Vista Resort Dance Platform
Parr in Bête Noire, a cabaret piece
Ruxy as Larisa (yellow hat) in The Egg at Dell'Arte International (2011).