Posts by Tonya Kay

Having located my cruelty-free ostrich feathers, I not only had to, but sincerely wanted to make the fans by hand.

Jack Dagger taught me everything I know about knife throwing but most importantly, his philosophy on building a marketable act: Entertain the people.

People will be inspired by my art and I will be inspired by others. It’s how we credit after inspiration that identifies us as honorable or as thieves.

The directors wanted to keep the investing sources private and small, if need be, so as not to risk watering down the activist message.

I edited the film myself, offering just a bit more in each clip while giving nothing away, building up to a brief moment of reveal: my Fire Tits danger art.

Although I value my strong team of agents out here in Los Angeles, asking an agent to handle my live gigs is unnecessary and actually backwards career-wise.

It’s taken four years for one of my low-budget films to be distributed publicly. I am in no fewer than nine projects in post-production as we speak.

It took the uniforms no less than 10 seconds to descend upon me and promptly remove myself and the entire cast of STOMP from the nation’s administrative capitol.

We are celebrating the way we move, our emotional connections to the movements, our creative self-expression and our engagement with onlookers.

I caught myself stressing, like I did every month, over how I was going to pay my 3-bedroom’s whopping $250 rent on my unpredictable performer’s salary.

Artists are choosing the path less traveled and are rare and courageous in society because of it.

There are many ways to further your career. One often overlooked goldmine is the glut of “downtime” most artists are already intimately familiar with.

I was a rage-against-the-machine kind of anti-techie until then. I bought a cell phone the next day.

I am unfit for the 9-5, but exceptional at the unstable, abstract and adventurous. I am an artist!