General Information: Overview: Who We Are: Moshe "Mr. YooWho" Cohen

Kosovo, Tokyo, Rio, Jerusalem, Barcelona, San Francisco, El Bosque, Katmandu, Brooklyn ......Theaters, festivals, concert halls, big concert halls, circus, varieté, schools, coffee houses, cultural centers, centres culturels, parks, town squares, cafeterias, clinics...

So with over 1000 performance in 27 years in 30 plus countries, Moshe has developed a universality to his humor. The audiences laugh, they laugh a lot. Families laugh, children laugh, adults laugh, even serious people laugh.

What's so funny? Perhaps, it is his way of doing things, choices that he makes, objects that he transforms. How he dances flamenco for example, with oversized plastic bags.. There are no words. His language is one of human expressions, actions, rhythms and emotions.

The flamenco is but one of many stages ludicrous events of comic persuasion. Moshe has recently developed a fascination for Japanese kazaguruma (pinwheels) and continues to explore oversized orange sunflowers. He continues to plays a sonata with twirling plastic tubes, and still asks a wind-up penguin to do a salto mortale high jump into a bucket of water.

As a performer, Moshe sports a European Clown perspective, old school, steeped in a Yiddish absurdist sense of humor with a taste of Japanese Kyogen, and Butoh dance sprinkled throughout.

The critic's choice of words:

graceful....soulful...lightness....ludicrous....exhilarating....poetic...great clown.

YooWho remembers: In 1999, Wavy Gravy called me up. He asked me to come over (Berkeley) to meet someone who needed a clown teacher. This person turned out to be Roshi Bernie Glassman, a pioneer in American Zen, who then took a series of workshops with me. In 2001 he participated, as a schleper ( and wonderful performer) in a Clowns Without Borders expedition to Chiapas, Mexico. Soon after that we taught a series of workshops together entitled "Clown Your Zen" (Omega Institute, NY; Le Forum, Paris; Villa Unspunnen, Ch...)