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Noah Howard Mickens (born February 18) is an American performance artist, showman, and writer from Portland, Oregon, primarily known for his contributions to vaudevillian revival, and as a ringmaster and master of Ceremonies for several theatrical circus troupes. His stage persona, ''William Batty'' currently serves as the ringmaster of the Wanderlust Circus, as well as the emcee of numerous vaudevillian and bohemian events in the area. Mickens has worked in a variety of performance media: scrap-metal percussion, singing, butoh, drama, circus arts, rock opera, and fashion modeling. Several of his collaborative projects have been combinations of two or more of the aforementioned art forms. Mickens has also performed as composer, director, and producer of numerous theatrical productions, as well as show promoter and publicist for various venues in the Portland area, including Someday Lounge, Dante's, The Jasmine Tree, and the Rotture-Branx venue complex. ==Early life== Mickens has described growing up in Los Angeles with his mother and his brother, Sam Mickens (a vocalist, guitarist, and composer for such bands as The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu, and Parenthetical Girls). In an interview with Portland Monthly, he said he was taught to juggle at age 14 by a homeless man named Robert. '':"I began to meet other people who were into that sort of thing," he recalls, "and I started to think of myself as a circus performer."'' Mickens began singing in local punk and pop bands in Los Angeles, among them Poor Old Timer, which he described as "blues-inflected punk music".〔 In 1996, Mickens moved to Portland, OR, and quickly became involved in a variety of theatrical and musical endeavors, including Nequaquam Vacuum (Latin for "the void does not exist"), an improvisational "post-asiatic chamber noise" ensemble, which he formed in 1999 with Tyler Armstrong and Travis McAlister. In 2004, Oregon Public Broadcasting filmed a short documentary on Mickens and Nequaquam Vacuum for the station's ''Oregon Art Beat'' program. The program showed Mickens, Armstrong and McAlister performing alongside butoh dancers from the PAN Butoh troupe. Mickens began organizing avant-garde performances through underground networks of artists. One such network was 36 Invisibles, which Mickens founded in 2000. Under the name 36 Invisibles, Mickens arranged and promoted performances by a variety of artists, usually at the Jasmine Tree, a small tiki bar near the Portland State University campus. He was also heavily involved with the Radon collective, another loose affiliation of avant-garde artists for which he was considered the "Portland Liaison ". From roughly 2001 to the present day he has recorded and toured with Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble, composed of Radon members from around the world. In 2001, he also began collaborating with 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, a Portland-based performance group founded by Lisa Newman and Llewyn Maire, and served on its board of directors. 2Gyrlz produced an annual month-long event, the EnterActive Language Festival, a multifaceted performance art showcase. His band Nequaquam Vacuum is listed in the 2Gyrlz archives as an EnterActive participant as early as 2002, as well as 36 Invisibles, and the PAN Butoh troupe, with which he was also involved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Noah Mickens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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