The Clown Summit 2012- 1/30-2/4/2012

by adam on Friday, 27 January, 2012

Clown Summit 2012

The Clown Summit this year focuses on clown educators.

Christopher Lueck’s Clown Summit is back with an all new set of audio interviews with influential and amazing clowns.

Last year, he focused on pretty famous clowns. This year, he’s focusing on clown educators, and he’s got a great line up.

I personally know three of the interviewees, and I think they are all great.  Many of them have been featured previously on Clownlink..com.

In case you weren’t aware,  the Clown Summit is a free, online, week-long audio event happening January 30th-February 3rd.  During the week of the Clown Summit a new audio interview with an influential and amazing clown educator will be posted inside their website each day.

The interview will be available to listen to for free for only 24 hours. Then, the next day a new interview will be posted.  After the summit, the mp3s will be made available for purchase as either an electronic download or as cd’s.

The interviews are conducted by Christopher Lueck, founder of the NY Downtown Clown Revue and a graduate of Dell’arte.  He is also a clown that (like myself) managed to wangle himself a NY Times wedding story!

Here’s this year’s lineup.

1/30: Joe Dieffenbacher of The Clown Conservatory

1/31: Sue Morrison of The Institute of Canadian Clowning

2/1: Jesse Dryden of Circus Smirkus

2/2: Ronlin Foreman of The Dell’ Arte School (with Joe Krienke and Gabe McKinney)

2/3: Priscilla Mooseburger of Mooseburger Camp

2/4: Jango Edwards of The Nouveau Clown Institute (BONUS INTERVIEW!)

To find out more and to sign up for free listening rights, visit the Clown Summit website: http://www.clownsummit.com/

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Adscensio (January 20, 21, Middletown, CT)

by adam on Friday, 20 January, 2012

Adscensio PosterAdscensio, a sixty minute circus directed by Dic Wheeler , features nine super-talented teenagers  from the Oddfellows Playhouse Traveling Circus.

Performances are Friday and Saturday, January 20 & 21 at 7:30 pm at the Oddfellows Playhouse, 128 Washington Street in Middletown, CT.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $ 8 for students, seniors and poverty stricken circus performers.

Call (860) 347-6143 for reservations.

More info at http://www.oddfellows.org/

The show features fantastic skills and has a plot that follows human progress from the discovery of fire to the proliferation of hand-held digital devices.

Oddfellows Playhouse Traveling Circus presents Adscensio Jan 20 & 21 (photo by Rob McGuinness)

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Goodbye Grandma!

January 8, 2012

Barry Lubin is retiring from Big Apple, and the show in NY ends today. We’re going to try for the last show at 4:30 today. If you miss the circus it will appear again in Queens in June and NJ in March. READ AN ARTICLE (with video)

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Downtown Clown Revue! Clowns & Cocktails (NY)

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Cirque Shanghai, Bai Xi

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UnTapped: Raw Metal Dance Company- Review

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Why People Are So Afraid of Clowns

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RIP Tom Keith (Prairie Home Companion’s Sound Effects Guy)

November 7, 2011

Just heard about the death of Tom Keith, the guy who did most of the really amazing sound effects on NPR. He was a wonderful foley artist and sound fx guy, and could imitate just about anything, or come stageworthy close. Here’s his LA Times Obit. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/04/local/la-me-tom-keith-20111103 and his NY Times Obit. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/arts/tom-keith-creator-of-radio-soundscapes-dies-at-64.html And a [...]

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Neo-Futurists Burning Bluebeard in Chicago

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The Neo-Futurists, performers of the fringe hit Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind and creators of over 60 other original, full-length productions (and whose motto is “Theatre that doesn’t suck”), are taking on a classic tragic moment in Chicago history as their next holiday production.  It’s not a redemptive tale of a greedy [...]

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The Fartiste: A Review

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I got the opportunity to see The Fartiste last night.  I was in august company.  I was sitting at the table with the cast of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, along with John Towsen, author of the esteemed book Clowns, and an excellent clown and physical comedy blogger/writer.  Also at the table was Michael Bongar, former [...]

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Clowns Ex Machina at LaMama (NY)

November 2, 2011

Clowns Ex Machina in ClownS Full-Tilt:        A Musing on Aesthetics November 4th -20th Created and directed by Kendall Cornell  with Clowns Ex Machina Amanda Barron, Carla T Bosnjak, Kendall Cornell, Julie Kinkle, Michaela Lind, Diana Lovrin, Lucia Rich, Maria Smushkovich, and Virginia Venk       Kendall Cornell has been a champion and [...]

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The Fartiste

October 29, 2011

The Fartiste is a new Off-Broadway musical comedy about one of Show Business’s weirdest acts. Set in 1890s Paris, this strange (but true!) story follows the uniquely talented Joseph Pujol, whose musical derriere propelled him to being the highest paid performer at the illustrious Moulin Rouge. Full of romance, hilarious characters, sweet melodies, and a [...]

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Rdcd Shkspr Cmpny Cmplt Wrld of Sprts, Abgd (NY)

October 29, 2011

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is bringing their zany brand of comedy and reduction to the New Victory Theatre now through November 6.  This team of 3 have taken on a number of other subjects in the past, starting with Shakespeare and moving on to the Bible, American History, World History, and  a bunch of other [...]

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Spymonkey Clown Workshops (NY & London)

October 26, 2011

I’ve featured Spymonkey Classes here before– this is the latest iteration.  They’ve got 2 weeks in NY and 1 week in London.  If you haven’t taken a workshop, check it out! LONDON 28th Nov – 2nd Dec 2011 People Show Studios, Pollard Row, London E2 6NB Spymonkey Clown Masterclass A five-day workshop with Aitor Basauri, [...]

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Ringling’s Fully Charged Discounts (Chicago area!)

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