The Zagreb Clown Festival is happening this week May 8-11, and it looks like I will be in attendance! (Not performing, just watching, networking, and drinking with the clowns) The festival is now in its 6th year, and had over 77 shows apply to perform on the stage. This year the theme is clowning across cultures, and they strove to […]
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The Clownvergence is almost here! I am a little late in letting you all know, (just realized last week that it was happening) and wanted to give it a shout out here, in case you can come. It’s Clownvergence! It’s hosted and invented by Barnaby King, the Clown-Spirit community owner and mentor. He’s gathered a lot of interesting folk together, […]
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I have lived in Barcelona now for 3 years, and it never ceases to amaze me how festivals get by my radar. I have my antennas tuned for circus and theatre festivals, but somehow I just discovered this circus festival happening this weekend. It is about 15 blocks from my house, and in it’s 25th year, which means that for […]
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Sad news, friends. It has just been announced that PeeWee Herman (actor Paul Reubens) has been struggling with cancer for the last 6 years and has just lost that battle, passing away on Sunday evening.. I read it on Rolling Stone, but wanted to write about it here. He was a big influence on me as a young performer, and […]
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Joe Dieffenbacher, former director of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco and the former clown teacher at the Dell’arte School, is teaching some workshops in Spain. And I’m attending some of them! I’ve written about Joe before multiple times, see here to see the list, and I’ve known Joe a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever taken a […]
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I’ve been attending the Festival of Fools here in Barcelona, which has been among other things a big send off to the Never Ending Jango Edwards, one of the principals of the festival for the last 50 years. (For the history of the festival, check out this recent post about the latest book about it.) Jango recently announced that he […]
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The Festival of Fools Barcelona 2022 is in fool swing right now. I’ve seen a few of the shows this year so far, and have been posting excerpts of some of the videos I’ve taken over on my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/kafclown/ If you want to catch any of the festival, you should check out their website https://festivaloffoolsbcn.com/. There are plenty of […]
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THE FESTIVAL OF FOOLS I attended the opening night of the Festival of Fools gala put on by Jango Edwards and the Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona. I’ve featured Jango on these pages before- he’s kind of a legendary madman/bad boy of the clown world- moved to Spain in the 70’s and lived there for 40 years without papers before […]
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After seeing the circus a couple of weeks ago, I’m seeing another live show this weekend. Oliv A Drift, a one woman clown show written and performed by Cristi Garbo and directed by Jango Edwards. (Two shows in a month’s time! It almost seems normal!) I’ve featured Jango on the blog before (although looking back, not in some time.) He’s […]
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I got my copy of A Clown In Our Town a few weeks ago, and I have been meaning to write about it. It’s a wonderful tribute to Rob Torres, who passed away unexpectedly in 2018.  I wrote his obituary here: RIP- Rob Torres, International Man of Mirth. Photographer Jim Moore, who has taken more photos of clowns, circuses, […]
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Rik Gern (aka Bonzo Crunch) is a grassroots entertainer currently based in Austin, Texas. He’s been working as a performer since 1978 in places as varied as Chicago, Texas, California, and Australia. Rik Gern started performing in the mid 1970’s, and then studied at the Dell’arte School of Mime and Comedy in 1982 in Blue Lake California, where he […]
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I have been fascinated by American/Australian clown and performer Ira Seidenstein‘s Four Articulations Method for some time. While I haven’t had any direct interaction with the method, it seems to be a creative method using tools and exercises to become more physically articulate with your body, and thus allow yourself to use your full capabilities to express yourself. Michelle Cajolet-Couture, […]
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THE SECRET LIFE OF CLOWNS Former Cirque du Soleil clown (and Clown Conservatory director) Jeff Raz has written a great new book The Secret Life of Clowns that marries two jobs that he put his heart and soul into. For a brief time, Raz was doing both of these demanding jobs at the same time, and now, about 10 years […]
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I’m feeling very down. My friend Pat Cashin unexpectedly died yesterday. He hadn’t been feeling well for about 10 days, doctors thought it was a viral infection of some sort but couldn’t find anything definitely wrong, his wife and kids went out to get groceries and when they came back he had passed away. He was a very funny clown, an […]
Read moreI had the privilege and opportunity to see Bello Nock perform his show Bello Mania at the New Victory Theatre (where it will be playing through August 20) Â I can highly recommend it. Bello is widely acclaimed in the media as America’s best clown. Â I don’t know if he’s #1, but I think he’s definitely up there. Â What makes him […]
Read moreThe applications for Clown Conservatory’s 5 Week Intensive, Clown: The Physical Comedian, are now online. You’ll find the program and scholarship / financial aid applications, and updated info on all Clown Conservatory’s pages of the Circus Center website. This 5 week workshop in Clown & Physical Comedy features a mixture of training in  Slapstick, Solo & Partner Acrobatics, Improv, Circus Skills and Creating an […]
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