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Read moreClowns Ex Machina Show Work in Progress May 21, May 25 (NY)
Clowns Ex Machina’s newest creation, CLOWNS FULL-TILT explores familiar, 2-D representations of women – famous paintings, everyday advertisements, the stock characters of film and television. Compressed layers of representation spring to absurd and symphonic life onstage – no flat medium can stop a clown who wants to bust out! (and once again, not CLOWN SEX MACHINE, although their URL looks […]
Read moreThe Dell’arte Intensive June 27-July 22 2011 (Blue Lake CA)
When I went to Dell’arte, it was a year long conservatory style program with a fixed curriculum. The second year was optional, and open to all past alumni, focusing on a specific style (clown, commedia, mask, melodrama, etc). The final exam/project was a tour throughout rural Northern California of a play that you and your classmates devised, built, designed, promoted, […]
Read moreToronto Festival of Clowns June 2-5, 2011
Toronto Festival of Clowns Time Thursday, June 2 at 6:30pm – June 5 at 11:00pm Location Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement 6 Noble Street Toronto, ON More Info Canada’s Most Red-Nosed Theatre Festival! A clown apocalypse in coming! For four days only, some of the world’s top clowns, bouffons and physical theatre performers will be unleashed in […]
Read moreLast weekend at the New Victory for Cirque Mechanics/Potato Needs A Bath
These are two great shows that I previewed/reviewed earlier. They both end this weekend, so see them if you can. Cirque Mechanics preview article Potato Needs a Bath Review New Victory website (for tickets and more info)
Read moreREVIEW: Potato Needs a Bath (New Victory NY,NY) through 4/24
On Saturday my son and I went to take in a puppet show at the New Victory’s New 42nd St. Studios. The show was called Potato Needs A Bath, and it was devised by Scottish storyteller and puppeteer Shonna Reppe, who last appeared at the New Victory in 2009 with her version of Cinderella. I wrote a preview article about […]
Read moreTriskelion’s 2nd Annual Comedy in Dance Festival (April 15-23, NY)
Triskelion hosts its 2nd annual Comedy in Dance Festival, a curated smorgasbord of work with a comic bent by over twenty NYC choreographers and clowns. Friday, April 15-Sunday, April 17, 2011 and Friday, April 22-Saturday, April 23, 2011. All shows at 8pm. Tickets $15. Reservations at info@triskelionarts.org Performance Schedule is as follows: (not in program order) Friday, April 15, 2011. […]
Read moreSynetic Theatre in DC– a silent King Lear (through April 24)
Thanks to Brian Foley for pointing this out to me! This looks like an amazing and highly stylized King Lear. See the video below to see how amazing the production values of this show are. Apparently Synetic has been doing Silent Shakespeare productions, and this is the SEVENTH Synetic’s King Lear Presented by Synetic Theater Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Choreography […]
Read moreThe Congress of Curious People’s April 8-17 (Coney Island, NY)
APRIL 8-17, 2011 AT SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE AND THE CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM 1208 SURF AVE. CONGRESS OF CURIOUS PEOPLES: AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF HUMAN MARVELS TICKETS FOR EACH EVENT ARE INDIVIDUALLY PRICED. SPECIAL! GET A CONGRESSIONAL PASS (gets you into all events, including sold out events, plus an invitation to dinner with Congressional Delegates and Performers) FOR ONLY $75 […]
Read moreCirque Mechanics’ Boom Town at the New Victory (April 8-24) (NY)
“As circus artists, we aim to show the outrageous things that our bodies can do and to surprise people as much as we can,†said Chris Lashua, artistic director of the Las Vegas based contemporary circus troupe, Cirque Mechanics. “However, we take circus one step further by building machines that not only capture the spectacle of circus, but thrill in […]
Read moreRCCU’s 10nth Anniversary Workshops June 12-July 1 (NY)
Stanley Allan Sherman, well-known maskmaker who contributed an excellent guest post to our Commedia Month series, will be teaching a 3 week commedia intensive from June 12-July 1 in New York. The workshop will feature over 128 hours of instruction. Here’s some of the details: RCCU 2011 RCCU is beginning its 10th anniversary year teaching Classical Commedia dell’Arte. Students will […]
Read moreHamlet, the Clown Prince of Denmark
I’ve been reading rave reviews of an Indian show called Hamlet, the Clown Prince of Denmark. It’s directed and conceived by Rajat Kapoor, an Indian actor who in the west is best known for his role as the sleazy uncle in Monsoon Wedding, but who has a wide range of films as both a director and an actor (as E. […]
Read moreNaked Empire Bouffon Workshop May 13-15 (San Francisco)
Naked Empire Bouffon Company Artistic Director of the Naked Empire Bouffon Company, Nathaniel Justiniano, is offering his weekend long Bouffon Intensive May 13-15, 2011. Register HERE. “The work of bouffon satisfies my greatest desires of the theatre. As a performer it demands an intense athleticism and availability to one’s wildest imagination. As audience to it I have found a way […]
Read moreParallel Exit Presents the Fifth Annual Move It! (May 9, 7-8pm, HERE, NY)
For more info about Parallel Exit, visit http://www.parallelexit.net Time Monday, May 9 · 7:00pm – 8:00pm FREE! Location HERE Arts Center 145 6th Avenue New York, NY More Info Parallel Exit presents the 5th Annual MOVE IT! A fantastic night of FREE theatre, featuring some of NYC’s most exciting physical and visual theatre artists. Featuring an incredible lineup: Titillating Tap […]
Read moreClown College wins 2011 Mark Twain Prize! (via clownalley.net)
This just in from Pat Cashin’s always excellent Clownalley.net: Ringling Clown College (my alma mater!) wins the 2011 Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize Pat Cashin’s CLOWNALLEY.NET: RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CLOWN COLLEGE TO BE RECIPIENT OF 2011 KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR (you can view his site by clicking above, or read the text of […]
Read moreThe Physics of Clown Cars
My good pal Greg DeSanto (executive director of the International Clown Hall of Fame) is quoted extensively in the April 2011 edition of Car and Driver, talking about the Physics of Clown Cars. They spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out (in mock terms) the maximum amount of clowns that can fit in a car. Here’s a […]
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