Austin's 999 Eyes, the original modern touring freakshow, returns home tomorrow with its esoteric sideshow.
With a name like Whorie the Clown, it's no surprise she ended up as part of the sideshow. But she honestly never expected to join the freak show - except that's exactly what has happened, courtesy of Austin's 999 Eyes, the original modern touring freakshow, as the troupe returns home this weekend with its freakshow and esoteric sideshow.
Dating back to the 19th century, the freakshow is a powerful element of America's vaudeville tradition, and that's what Jim Rose tapped into back in 1991 when he established the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. Yet most of his performers were sideshow performers and what's called self-made freaks: performers who had altered themselves through body modification, or performed sideshow routines.
Astoundingly, there's still pushback."Sideshows and freakshows are being asked not to hire performers who are natural-born," Black said,"and now there's been some political waves that have crashed onto the shores, and the pandemic hit, and it feels like we've had a whole reset, and we're trying to hide people who are born different."
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