Jasper Patterson grew up during the height of the “Vaudeville-Nouveau” movement. His eclectic performance background includes studying with Director Joanne Akalaitis, ground breaking puppeteer Basil Twist, and physical theatre with master teachers Avner Eisenberg and Jim Calder. Jasper was also awarded a scholarship to further his formal training with teachers from the NY Metropolitan Opera, including soloing with the National Symphony.

While touring Canada with the show Eccentric Attraction, a two-man vaudeville show, Jasper honed the skill of melding traditional vaudeville danger/skill stunts and physical theatre with audience interaction/improvisation and trance induction. After a stint in New York as a musical clown performing with Janine Garafalo and Josh Lucas, he became a cast member of the Flying Karamozov Brothers. He is also a performer and designer with Golden Thread Productions (which focuses on plays from and about the middle east). Currently, Jasper is the Artistic Director of the New Eccentrics; a design collective dedicated to forging the performer of the future.

Sarah “Styles” Al-Kassab is a one woman powerhouse of art, beauty, magic and performance. With a mixed-culture and mixed-religion background, along with a bi-coastal up bringing, Sarah spent most of her time studying the symbols of history, art and popular culture to answer the question, “What exactly is the -ism of style?”

Drawing on her extreme experiences and the -isms of the past; her understanding that style is what one makes of it; the realization that symbols are the universal language; and that magic is made everywhere, she, along with her partner Jasper Patterson, created The New Eccentrics. They are currently developing new material in the underground vaudeville and cabaret scene in San Francisco.