Friends, it’s Revival time again! On tour under their brand new moniker, the ELEPHANT ENGINE HIGH DIVE REVIVAL is back!! Anis Mojgani (2-time Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), Derrick Brown (invited to open for The Whites Stripes, Cold War Kids), Buddy Wakefield (2-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion), Shira Erlichman (Pushcart Prize Nominee; mesmerizing 1-woman band) and 10 nationally recognized rotating 5th members bring to You (the lovers of love, haters of cauliflower, and makers of the Moonfish) the planet’s ultimate spoken word theater experience!

Born to inspire, these poetic acrobats have been engaging international audiences for over a decade from San Quentin State Penitentiary and House of Blues all the way to HBO and The Tonight Show. Their individual successes are many but together they have struck an undeniable power chord with North American audiences for the past three years. Unpack that trapeze and tightwire, take off your seatbelt and climb up. This year’s Revival is their biggest show ever!

Buddy Wakefield, Anis Mojgani and Derrick Brown have spent the past few years collecting themselves with the top performance poets on the globe, banding together to create "a disarming verbal circus successfully reviving, redeeming and releasing its audiences from the heaviness of lives caught in holding patterns.” No other line-up is as ambitious or well-rounded with such a seasoned cast of road poets incorporating gripping, uplifting music, engaging group work and a busload of questionable dance moves.

Between September 10th and November 20th, 2009 the Elephant Engine High Dive Revival's circus train rolls out on a national tour like none other ushering the scalpels out of your bounce castles and the funnel cakes back to your senses. Expect wide open eyes, cannonball surprises and the belly laughs returned to your balloon animal faces. With uproarious crowd participation, unwavering honesty, human condition truth activism and respect for the lives we lead, the Elephant Engine High Dive Revival charges the hearts of all they meet.

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Friends, it’s Revival time again! On tour under their brand new moniker, the ELEPHANT ENGINE HIGH DIVE REVIVAL is back!! Anis Mojgani (2-time Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), Derrick Brown (invited to open for The Whites Stripes, Cold War Kids), Buddy Wakefield (2-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion), Shira Erlichman (Pushcart Prize Nominee; mesmerizing 1-woman band) and 10 nationally recognized rotating 5th members bring to You (the lovers of love, haters of cauliflower, and... (read more)