Janet Kuypers 20121003
with the music of HA!
live at Gallery Cabaret

    Francois Le Roux (the HA!man of South Africa) and the Café Gallery host Janet Kuypers performed in a show together (that was nearly a year in the making) at Gallery Cabaret (2020 N. Oakley Ave. in Chicago - one block east of Western Avenue and one block north of Armitage) Wednesday, October 3rd 2012. This one-of-a-kind live event was a show in three parts.

    This event was part of the Seventh Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, with events scheduled throughout the month to highlight Chicago artists in live performances collaborating with people from outside of the greater Chicago area. This Janet/Francois show more than applied to this month-long festival, with a Chicago performance artist (Janet) performing a live show with a man from South Africa (Francois), and even had writing talking not only about travel, but also about communication with people around the world (with phrases at one point spoken in English, Spanish, German, Romanian, Polish, Tagalog, Serbian, and even Afrikaans).

    After the Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels introduction to this live show, Francois played some pre-recorded orchestral tracks, to accompany his playing the keyboard (with many additional effects) as well as his cello, to create spontaneous music to all of the pieces Kuypers performed - which included a short story (with an intro by Jeff helgeson) and both old and brand new poetry. During this show, Kuypers also went through multiple costume changes, and even a voice effects filter (so she could sound like a man when she was talking about travel, before she literally stripped into a small silver dress for poetry about relationships). For those who missed this one-of-a-kind performance, below are videos from the October 3, 2012 (10/3/12) live show following the Café Gallery poetry open mic of material from Janet Kuypers, with live impromptu music from Francois le Roux (the HA!Man of South Africa).

    Most photographs from this event was just posted on a Facebook photo album, but select images are also included at the bottom of this page. (There were also photos taken of Kuypers during a 9/30/12 practiceo session, since Kuypers had props and had to change costume during her show, that are included in a separate facebook photo album, with a very select few images after the show images at the bottom of this page.)

Keep in mind that at any time you can also look for all tracks (studio and live) of Janet and Francois in “Chiago to South Africa” (which will also contain these tracks).

Janet Kuypers with the music of HA!
full live show

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on to the individual pieces...

Part 1 of the show

Janet Kuypers performs her short story
Crazy
(with an introduction by Jeff Helgeson;
this story was part 1 of the show)

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Part 2 of the show

Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Been a World Leader

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Enough’s Enough

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
My Kind of Town

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Part 3 of the show

Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Communication 2012

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Everything Else Falls Away

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
And I’m Wondering

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
The Way You Tease Me

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Us, Actually Touching

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
You Are a Force

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Games We Play

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...and after the end of the show

Janet Kuypers performs part of her poem
True Happiness
in the New Millennium

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There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live poerformances are included in Live at the Café includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 06/07/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone’s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, including iTunes.

There is also a (more recent) 4 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live poerformances are included in Dobro Veče (“Good Evening” in Serbian) includes not only recordings from 2006, 2007 and 2008, but it also contains past Poetry Wheels, and recordings of performance art shows like Twitter Inside at Regina’s Place in Logan Square 5/21/10. Bonus tracks include live recordings from at the Chicago State University Power Networking for Success show, as well as Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus). You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, like iTunes.

There is also the FINAL 4 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into the release which contained her last feature at the Café - “hmmm”. This 4 CD set contains Juypers’ most recent work in performances from 2010 through 2011, along with bonus recordings from as well as Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus), Cafe Mestizo, numerous Trunk Fest events (in Evanston IL), Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing, and readings on WZRD Chicago FM Radio. Performances at the Café even include musical accompanyment by Opers singer Suzanne Hettinger, and music from Francois Le Roux / the HA!Man of South Africa.
You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry in live performances at many online locations, like amazon.com and emusic.

hmmm - 3 disc set of the LAST live performances at the Café

And enjoy select live 10/3/12 show photos taken during this show...

And enjoy a very select few photos from Kuypers’ practice session 9/30/12...