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This lecture is produced in conjunction with a great circus exhibition that is happening at Bard College.  The exhibit is called Circus and the City: New York 1793-2010. The exhibit runs through February 3.. The lecture itself is given by Clownlink reader and friend, David Carylon, a former Ringling clown, a PHD in theatre/circus history, and the author of THE […]

Merry Christmas, everybody! (or Happy Holidays, if Christmas isn’t your thing)

Circus Oz is one of the finest circuses on the planet.   They started in Melbourne, Australia in 1978, and since then have toured nationally and internationally , taking their self-crafted performances of wit, grace and spectacle to 26 countries across five continents, to critical acclaim. The Circus Oz show is a rock-n-roll, animal free circus that adults and children […]

Go Inspired is listing two Commedia Dell’arte workshops in December and June. New York City: Dec. 26-28, 2012 with Stanley Allen Sherman ($295 includes workshop only) You can find out more about this at Stanley’s website:  http://www.commediau.com/  Participants learn the physical style of Commedia dell’Arte as we believe it was “then” and how it may be used “now” as a creative […]

‘Ninja Clown‘ is a PG-12 show presented by students from the Clown Conservatory at Circus Center in San Francisco. The production is a culmination of 7 weeks of intensive training under the leadership of Joe Dieffenbacher.  Joe is the  director of the Clown Conservatory, taking over from Jeff Raz. I met both of these guys at Dell’arte (when I met Joe […]

Photo courtesy of Oily Cart. We saw Ring A Ding Ding at the New Victory Theatre last week, and it was really fantastic.  To read a preview article of the show, you can look at my Dad oriented blog, Dadapalooza. The show is presented by  is presented by London’s Oily Cart Company.  Oily Cart has been touring their unique brand of theatre […]

Circus Smirkus is taking applications for their  2013 Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour! If you will be between the ages of 10 and 18 during the summer of 2013, are interested in circus, and have a good stage presence, you should apply.  The Big Top tour will travel and perform over 60 performances throughout New England . Hope to see you […]

As I mentioned in my last post, we saw CirColombia’s Urban at the New Victory. It’s a circus made up  entirely of graduates of Circos Par Todos, Colombia’s National Circus  School and a program for kids in the toughest barrio’s and favelas of  Colombia. The idea is to get kids out of the ghettos using the power of circus. Wonderful […]

The New Victory starts its new season this week.  I have extolled their virtues many times on these pages and others– I do a lot of reviews of their shows.  (Hey, they present lots of great stuff, and they have been giving me tickets to see stuff in hopes I write about it.  Perfect system for me!  But, gentle readers,  […]

Basketball clowns the Harlem Globetrotters will be performing/playing on October 7 at the brand new Barclay Center at 5 pm.  They are offering clownlink.com readers $7 off of tickets with the code TROTTER. http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/event/harlem-globetrotters-grand-opening-barclays-center On that page you can also vote to change the rules of the game, and the Globetrotters agree to abide by it.  4 point shots.  Two […]

On Monday, September 24 2012 at 8:30 pm, the New York Clown Theatre Festival will screen the first-ever “portmanteau film” project made by clowns. The film was conceived by Audrey Crabtree, Jeff Seal and Ben Model, and realized by 22 clown groups of the festival.  (and I was one of those groups!) . The individual silent movies were shot over […]

I wasn’t actually at the Clown Parade that opened the NY Clown Theatre Festival, but with all the photos that are circulating, I have a pretty good idea what went on! Here’s TimeOut’s Filip Wolnak’s amazing collection of photos: http://www.fotofilip.com/gallery/new_york_clown_theatre_festival_for_tony_72157631554984325   Here’s Jim Moore’s collection of photos from Vaudevisuals: http://vaudevisuals.com/2012/09/2012-york-clown-theatre-festival/   And here’s Eric Michael Pearson’s Pie Fight portraits from […]

You can read about the 3 shows I saw on Friday here:  On Saturday, I saw 4 more shows of the NY Clown Festival.  Here’s what I saw PERHAPS… PERHAPS… QUIZAS. I’d seen Gabriela Muñoz perform a shorter version of this show 2 years ago.  Here’s what I thought of it then.(In fact, I was the audience volunteer that got married […]

In my vain attempt to see all of the shows of the NY Clown Festival (vain because I have already failed, and I’m missing a bunch next week), I’m trying to see 9 shows this weekend.  3 on Friday, 4 on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday (I may try to top it off with a little circus Amuse Bouche, and […]

I had the chance yesterday to go to a blogger event with 5 of the Harlem Globetrotters.  They are preparing to appear in Brooklyn for the first time (Sunday October 7 at 5 pm at the Barclays Center) – click link to purchase tickets. This is the 87nth season of the Harlem Globetrotters, and throughout these seasons they’ve entertained millions of […]

There is a time-honored trope in clown theatre of the false lecture– pompous guy who purports to know everything about something gives a lecture, but weird things keep happening to him, usually due to the bumbling of his sidekick.  The concept is not original, but this production of On the Nose, which features the Happenstance Theater‘s Mark Jaster and Sabrina […]