Jan Kudelka Presents
Perfomer - Creator - Educator
Jan enters stage center, and immediately, the energy jolts the room. The audience holds its breath.
Something is happening here. Something is about to happen. A shift is taking place, a portal opening to a place where time itself disappears, where life and death are entangled in embrace. This is what it feels like to be present at “The Janis Papers”, Jan Kudelka’s creative love child with the posthumous Joplin. When Jan enters stage, she commands us to surrender our reality, stuns us into losing all sense of time and place.
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About Jan
. . . was born and raised on a farm in Ontario. Her performing experience has taken her from the Royal Alex Theatre in HAIR to Yellowknife NWT with Opera in Concert, the interior o f B.C. on horse back with the Caravan Farm & Stage Companies,, and principal roles in Stratford on the Festival and Avon stages principal roles with Jessica Tandy and Maggie Smith. Other credits include the National Arts Centre, the Tarragon, Theatre London, Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg, the Theatre New Brunswick and live performances throughout British Columbia where she now calls home.
Jan has performed CIRCUS GOTHIC since 1978, from the initial stages as an epic poem to its present form as a one woman Tour de Force theatre experience. The show is based on her TRUES experience with circus life.
Her explorations of JANIS JOPLIN have been in multiple iterations with and without full bands since 1980. THE JANIS PAPERS her current offering (notably non-biographical) is based on dreams and direct transmissions from the spirit form of Janis herself .
THE JANIS PAPERS
An Intimate evening with Janis Joplin
Jan Kudelka, since 1980, has made a lifelong study of the voice impact and energy of Janis Joplin in multiple iterations over the years performed in theatre and concert forms.
Now, in the evolution of this iconic legend, Kudelka has taken on “OLD JANIS”.
Using dreams and direct transmissions from the “ghost-spirit” of JANIS herself, the audience receives a riveting 90 minute performance of JOPLIN’s songs and inner world from a masterful creator- performer.
Rather than a full band, and in keeping with the intimacy of this fully realized exploration there are specialized SOLO backing tracks created by the talented Canadian singer songwriter Liam MacIvor Tyne. And additonal songs by Leonard Cohen and Robbie Robertson pertaining to Janis’ complex tragic yet joyful life.
Losing none of the impact of young Janis, KUDELKA brings alive the phenomenon that is Janis Joplin at 82, stilll alive in the hearts and minds of fans of all ages.
In this performance JANIS LIVES
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