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I saw this back at the 2010 NY Clown Theatre Festival at the Brick Theatre and I can highly recommend it.  You can read my review here.  You can also see some photographs and a video interview by Photographer to the Clowns Jim Moore on his site Vaudevisuals. Jeff and Buttons have TONS of new material and now they have […]

Christopher Lueck, the man behind the New York Downtown Clown Revue, has a new project that he’s calling the Clown Summit. For the next five days, he’s going to release 1 free interview a day  that he’s done with master clowns, talking about American Clowning past, present, and future.  The interviews will be available for 24 hours only, for free, […]

(This is the only article I found in English that featured Bello Nock via Google)  Not sure if the English speaking world doesn’t care about Monaco, or Google is not finding it. )  Anyway, Congrats Bello! http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/01/24/41046470.html At circus festival in Monaco, Russians win 3 awards Karina Ivashko Jan 24, 2011 20:01 Moscow Time An international circus festival is now […]

Mark Gindick, who has become a mainstay at the Big Apple Circus (first as an understudy/replacement for Grandma, and now as a clown under his own name) has his first solo show at Suny Purchase next weekend. Mark is revisiting some gags and ideas that he started in his show 10 years ago ( How To Be A Man) which […]

Now, I’m not there, but it seems that everything in Monte Carlo is coming up Bello– even the royalty. Here’s a photo of Prince Albert II sporting Bello’s distinctive hairstyle from the local newspaper.

A five-day workshop with Aitor Basauri, Spymonkey co founder, clown teacher at the Phillipe Gaulier School, Paris and Cirque Du Soliel, Montreal. Participants will learn to develop what makes them funny, hone their skills and discover how to make an audience belly laugh whilst being part of a great group dynamic. The performer who dares to stand before a crowd, […]

Final sounds so final, and I expect he’ll probably be back, but the last time the Red and Lascivious Bastard will perform in NY before his creator and inhabitor Eric Davis flies off to Hollywood to collaborate with Cirque du Soleil on a new and permanent show at the Kodak Theatre is next Tuesday at Dixon Place. If you haven’t […]

Kendall Cornell & Clowns Ex Machina (not the infamous Clown Sex Machine) are putting on a show/benefit/performance featuring some of their best bits of shows past and shows future. The evening will also include some guest artists, including the sensuous song stylings of Shirley U. Geste and the delicious tango of Valeria Solomonoff, as well as a visit from the […]

Every once in a while there is a show that I’ve been meaning to see, that I want to see, that I planned to see, and somehow I miss seeing it.  Such was the case with the New Victory’s production of NEARLY LEAR, a one woman portrayal of the story of King Lear as seen from the Fool’s perspective. I’d […]

An Israeli study of an IVF clinic has found that pregnancy rate almost doubled when a “medical clown” visited clinic after the embryo transfer. From the Guardian article: During recovery from the procedure, each woman had a 15-minute visit from the clown, who performed a specific routine created by Friedler – who has studied movement and mime – and a […]

Weird commercial for Japanese McDonalds. He pulls a burger from his butt and then what? Not sure I get it!

Character Mask to Clown–with Deborah Kaufmann Inspired by the teaching of Richard Pochinko A multi-disciplinary way for any artist to make direct connection to aspects of his/her true self, for devising material and performance. In the spirit of playfulness we will face the six directions of self: North, West, South, East, Above and Below, by painting, sculpting masks with clay, […]

The ever wonderful photographer Jim Moore has a new series of clown photos that he has been making (I say ever wonderful, which is true, but I may as well say ever-present, as this guy is at every  show I see, plus a great many I don’t.  I bet there is not another person (except for maybe Hovey Burgess) who […]