A thousand Faces
and the Sounds of Half the World

Jojo Weiss

Lovable Screwball! Cool Clown! Living Drum! Face Acrobat! Comedic Dynamo!...
The native of Augsburg loves variety and absurdity. Recklessly, soaringly, he is the comedic side of Vivace
Although lacking a tenor’s size, his well-trained “percussion machine” produces sounds of half the world. Weiss calls his art “visual audio theater” and the audience’s astonishment and laughter is his goal.

With the help of a gap in his teeth he plays “the smallest trombone in the world”, which sounds amazingly real; with his face muscles he becomes the rhythmic beating of a kettledrum; and with only his hands he plays Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”. From the irony of this alone it is fun to listen to Weiss.

In 1991 Jojo Weiss began his career as a comedian in Berlin. His teachers were right when they exasperatedly claimed, “Weiss, you’re a clown!” – at the Festival Cirque du demain in Paris, Jojo Weiss was awarded the Fratelli Clowns Prize.