About The Raving Jaynes

After suffering through the low wages and minimal recognition of the post-modern dance world, Jamie Graham and Amy Larimer are pursuing new prosperity & fame in the lucrative world of improv comedy! Amy & Jamie started out as classically-trained professional dancers, with backgrounds in ballet, modern, & post-modern techniques. After a battery of studies in improv comedy & physical theater, from places like The Pit & The Annoyance, and in disciplines like Action Theater & clowning, they are now the Raving Jaynes -- a dynamic duo mixing dance, improv, and physical theater to tell entirely improvised stories!

The Raving Jaynes perform regularly at the PIT in New York City, teach workshops and are advocates for the art of improvisation as a performance practice. They have been presented at Mount Olymprov Improv Festival in Athens, Greece; IMPRO Amsterdam; the Abundance Festival in Karlstad, Sweden; Big City Improv Festival in Toronto; La 2da Muestra Nacional de Improvisación Teatral/ImproTop in Tepic, Mexico; TCIF in Minneapolis; the ADaPT Festival in Santa Barbara; Big City Improv in Toronto; Built on Stilts in Martha’s Vineyard; The Crisis Arts Festival in Arezzo, Italy; The Comedy in Dance Festival at Triskelion Arts; Dancemopolitan at Joe's Pub; The District Improv Festival in D.C.; Duofest in Philadelphia; The NYC Improv Festival; The Unscripted New York Improvised Theatre Festival, The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin; Your Move in Jersey City and The Tank.

They are the "real deal: sharp, witty, gorgeous, and utterly unique." (Dance Enthusiast) "To call The Raving Jaynes a unique blend of dance and improvisation would be an insufficient description; for they have truly wed the two art forms into one." (Improvisation News)

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