The giant puppet Odo has led our parades and been an icon of our troupe for over 20 years!!!
Here, some Flamingorinas (a ballerina-flamingo hybrid), warming themselves by a solar cooker as giants look on, thinking, "Tastes like chicken!"
In 2008 we added garden gnomes to our troupe. The gnomes have a very "back to the land" attitude!
Using members of our troupe, guest artists, Fair Family, and friends, Risk of Change puts together BIG groups of colorful people for parades and high impact ambiance all around!
and sometimes the colorful world we create ends up being all BLACK & WHITE!
Sometimes with an accent color, of course!
Rehearsals for our spectacular performance pieces can be grueling!
Risk of Change has always brought together Fair Family & Friends of ALL ages to play with us and explore our magical, made up & make-up, manifestations!
Some people think that Risk of Change is duplicitous. The reality is that twins just run in our family, so our twins have often marched out in our regular freak parades...
No one has ever been able to accuse us of not being patriotic Americans (and a few Canadians)! So we have paraded our patriotism throughout the Fair, with songs and our "Red, White, & Blue, it's our country TOO" marches! (this pic is featured on the OregonCountryFair.com website! thanks!)
As an ever changing, collective of zany performers full of non-stop hilarity, we look forward to CELEBRATING OUR 25th ANNIVERSARY performing at the Oregon Country Fair in 2009! We're there to entertain you outside the gates in the morning before the Fair opens. We follow the Circus Band and create the colorful creatures for a BIG parade, TWICE a day. We show up in odd little "jams" of performers all around and about the Fair and we add our own special fun to the sweep! Look for us on the path throughout the day, every day!
