Dan Kamin

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Dan Kamin performs worldwide for theatres, colleges and symphony orchestras. On film, he created the physical comedy sequences for Chaplin and Benny and Joon, and trained Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for their acclaimed starring performances. He also created Martian movement for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! and played the wooden Indian come to life in the cult classic Creepshow 2. Despite these impressive credits, Dan's artistic beginnings were humble. At age twelve he began his performing career as a boy magician, "bravely struggling," as he puts it, "to entertain hordes of unappreciative, hyper-kinetic children." Attending Carnegie Mellon University to study industrial design, Dan's hopes for a normal life evaporated when he saw the eye-popping movement illusions practiced by master mime Jewel Walker. He promptly became the sorcerer's apprentice. The great silent comedy films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin added more fuel to his fire, and soon Dan was touring the country with his first original show, Silent Comedy...Live! Undeterred by the fact that vaudeville was long dead, he cobbled a new vaudeville circuit out of colleges, theatres and schools. His Comedy Concertos, which blend lowbrow comedy with highbrow music, have become popular with symphonies worldwide. Dan also creates special programs and pranks for corporate clients such as PPG Industries and Westinghouse. And sometimes he becomes The Corpozoid Man, a strange character who strolls through arts...

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