Hip Hop Theatre | Traditional Storytelling
Beatboxing & Hip Hop | B-boys/B-girls & Urban Dance | Traditional Klezmer Music

"Using his flute and a microphone Barsky becomes a one man hip-hop machine...It's a bravura performance, one that should make Barsky famous."
-Chad Jones, The Oakland Tribune, 02/03

Tim Barsky and Everyday Theatre are available for a variety of different events. The following represents a brief sample of what we do. Please feel free to contact us for more info on bookings, fees, and availability.

Hip-hop Theatre:

Working with live musicians, and incorporating elements of street performance, beatboxing, folklore, spoken word, and physical theatre, Tim transforms the complex themes and images of traditional storytelling into a vibrant, engaging form of modern theatre. Using innovative techniques, he brings an array of voices, characters, and places to life from around the world and across the street. Available as a solo artist, and with the members of Everyday Theatre.

Traditional Storytelling:

Tim works primarily within a Jewish narrative form called the wonder tale. These complex, highly patterned stories represent the virtuosic repertoire of Ashkenazi folklore. Rich in imagery and combining music, theatre, and audience participation, the form flourished during the 16th-19th centuries, and survives to this day. Tim knows a wide variety of tales from both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic tradtions. He has also studied with a variety of storytellers from different ethnic traditions, and his repertoire includes tales from the Irish, African-American, and Arabic traditions. Many of these stories have been passed down solely through the oral tradition, and are not available in print. Tim is available for storytelling concerts as a solo performer, and with the members of the Everyday Theatre.

Beatboxing & Hip-Hop

Tim appears with the Vowel Movement All-Stars, as a solo flutist and beatboxer, & with a host of Bay Area hip-hop musicians, emcees, and DJs. Whether he’s doing a solo set or appearing as part of a larger unit, the effect of the battle flutist is not to be underestimated. Suitable for theatre venues, festivals, simchas, bat/bar mitavahs, weddings, clubs, and concerts.

B-boys/B-girls & Urban Dance

Everyday Theatre has a long term relationship with many Bay Area b-boy and b-girl (breakdance) and house crews including Flo-ology, & Sisterz of The Underground. Beatboxers & dancers work together to create an evening of dance and music that is explosive.

Traditional Klezmer Music:

Tim is available as a solo artist, or with up to 6 musicians for secular or religious audiences (fully conversant & comfortable with reform, conservative, and orthodox settings). Suitable for simchas, yom tovs, bar/bat mitzvahs, cultural events, festivals, and concerts. References available. Contact Everyday Theatre for more info.