{"id":75,"date":"2017-07-01T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:12:54","slug":"sean-bridges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/sean-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanpic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-227\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanpic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" \/>In Summer 1990 I became coach and clown partner to 20 year old Sean Bridges, devising a street show with him to promote his bicycle freestyle and juggling talents. Called \u2018Bimbo and Dipstick,\u2019 \u00a0we took the show to the Pump Rooms in Bath, to Covent Garden, the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Glasgow Streetbiz. We performed the show, whilst in Scotland, for the troupe of Circus Archaos, in their arena, late at night, and gained Sean a place. He joined the troupe in Bristol in September 1990.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996 I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/archive\/SB\/seanbridges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> for him.<\/p>\n<p>His new website can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeboy.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bikeboy.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 he did an interview with Stories From the Pitch about his years as an internationally renowned street performer, and generously told the interviewer about his time in Edinburgh with me. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/buskerhalloffame.com\/busker-hof-87-bike-boy-interview\/\">listen to the interview<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress2-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress2-285x300.jpg 285w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seanlocalpress.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Summer 1990 I became coach and clown partner to 20 year old Sean Bridges, devising a street show with him to promote his bicycle freestyle and juggling talents. Called \u2018Bimbo and Dipstick,\u2019 \u00a0we took the show to the Pump Rooms in Bath, to Covent Garden, the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Glasgow Streetbiz. We performed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/sean-bridges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sean Bridges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}