Right now, all the members of the INTERROBANG tour are scattered across the country doing a myriad of activities. For example, Tara and I are working as flying trapeze instructors at a sports camp. We’ve recently been looking into which bikes would best suit our tour, which then reminded us that we will definitely need to be training hard next year. Our goal is to bike 50 miles a day, with some days off where we stay put and perform often. Tara and I have just started biking to work, which is a very hilly 4 miles one way. The hills posed both a good challenge (especially when my bike played the ‘you wanted a low gear? Oh! Well let me just go against your wishes and shift you back into the highest gear!’ game) and insanely fun when going up and down them, respectivley. In any case, it was pretty satisfying to stroll into the camp already sweaty and thoroughly wind-blown.
Another benefit to biking is it really makes you work on your projection skills. If you wanted to talk to the person in front of you, you really do have to get your voice out there. This has a multitude of useful applications beyond chatting while biking. For example, good projection will be extraordinarily useful when letting towns know that the circus is in town, emceeing to a huge crowd, shouting up to princesses locked in high towers, and for dressing up in business suits and looking intimidating.
Tara and I are planning on riding a tandem bicycle for the tour, which means that projection won’t be as necessary (seeing as how we’re quite close to one another). We’ve been thinking of things the stoker (person in the back) can do while the captain steers. So far we’ve thought of filming/photographing the rest of the troupe as we’re on the road, reading out loud to the captain, high fiving other bikers/pedestrians, and juggling.
What would you do if you were on the back of a tandem bicycle riding through towns?
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