Kosovo, Tokyo, Rio, Jerusalem, Barcelona, San Francisco, El Bosque, Katmandu, Brooklyn.......over 1000 performances.....over 27 years.....30 plus countries.

Theaters, festivals, concert halls, big concert halls, circus, varieté, schools, coffee houses, cultural centers, centres culturels, parks, town squares, cafeterias, clinics...

The audiences laugh, they laugh a lot. Families laugh, children laugh, adults laugh, even serious people laugh. What's so funny. It is his way of doing things. There are no words. His language is one of human expressions, actions, emotions.

Moshe Cohen ( a.k.a.Mr. YooWho) stages ludicrous events of comic persuasion: a flamenco number with oversized plastic bags, a sonata played with twirling plastic tubes, a wind-up penguin is asked to jump into a bucket of water. YooWho raises the flag of wizened absurdity to its highest levels.

His mother would prefer that he be known as a humorist, but most consider Moshe Cohen a clown. A European Clown no doubt, old school, steeped in a Yiddish absurdist sense of humor with a taste of Japanese Kyogen and Butoh dance for good measure.

Perhaps it is better to refer to the critic's choice of words : graceful.... soulful... lightness.....ludicrous.... exhilarating...poetic.....great clown.

Photos from 2007 performance "Kyogen Plastique"

photos by Kevin Matthews

more photos by Peter Cunningham