ACTOR/CLOWN ARTISTS
Here you will find a cache of essays about clowns who were so inspired, yet who are rarely discussed within the field of Clown.
You will broaden your perspective about what excellence in clowning can be, and thus you will have a chance to be inspired towards your own aesthetic and viewpoint.
Along with a new outlook and the I.S.A.A.C. Four Articulations exercises you will have self-empowered tools to renew your approach to Clown.
November 24, 2025
photo: Ira Seidenstein teaching Slava Snowshow company’s workshop for University acting students.2012 – Italy. ...
May 7, 2025
Artwork Reuben Heyday Margolin For this blog there will be no essay. There will ...
March 21, 2025
The photo is NOT from Sketch of Return. The comical glasses, nose, and moustache ...
January 15, 2025
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”. Finally in Sweden long enough I ...
December 18, 2024
Photo – “Kitsch Cans – The Gold-Crested Toilets.” Outdoor ‘facilities’ Luzia – CDS Jim ...
September 17, 2024
Photo is Magician and book collector Harry Houdini. Houdini donated his books and manuscripts ...
May 19, 2024
Weber and Fields I consider a keystone to modern Clown. As you may know ...
April 15, 2024
A PLAY ON WORLDS (1989). PR Photo left to right: Theo Coumbis; Georgia Lejeune; ...
April 9, 2024
American comedian Sid Caesar wears an operatic clown costume while facing cast member Howard ...
April 7, 2024
The Co-Producers of DESILU PRODUCTIONS HOLLYWOOD: Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and her husband, Desi Arnaz ...
February 8, 2024
The Marx Brothers – the 4 who appeared in their films Chico, Harpo, Groucho, ...
January 25, 2024
Rose Marie; Mary Tyler Moore; Morey Amsterdam; Dick Van Dyke the quartet within the ...
August 4, 2023
Teaching Clown is a wonderful experience. It’s a field in which paradoxes abound. As ...
July 28, 2023
Clara Bow promotional photo for the film Dangerous Curves (1929) Is a Tomboy a ...
July 2, 2023
Publicity photo of Ann Miller 1946 Ann Miller was a great clown whose forte ...
June 3, 2023
Photo above: Co-stars of the film Chocolat (2016): Actor Omar Sy & Chaplin’s Grandson ...
May 3, 2023
PHOTO: BARRY HUMPHRIES with Director Ray Lawler who asked Barry to write a sketch ...
March 26, 2023
THIS BLOG HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR CONVIENENCE AND INCLUDES HIGHLIGHTED TITLES AND A NUMBER ...
March 12, 2023
The Grand-Mother of Contemporary Clown – Irene Ryan Irene Ryan played the great clown ...
January 17, 2023
Kandinsky painting “Swinging”. Quote from Kandinsky: “With few exceptions, music has been for some ...
November 11, 2022
Photo – Gertrude Bodenwieser early performance. She was born Gertrud Bondi in Vienna, 1890. ...
August 24, 2021
Oh the delights and treasures of youtube and ‘giggle’:) Today a site posted a ...
May 13, 2021
There were four young girls who had the lead role in the Alice Comedies ...
May 13, 2021
VALESKA GERT “She found work washing dishes and posing as a nude model.[2] This same ...
May 4, 2021
Research is fun when you trust the subconscious and the spontaneous. My friend Yiss ...
January 20, 2021
Thanks to someone named Peter for posting this link of Andy Kaufman. I have ...
January 5, 2021
Swedish Clown Eva Rydberg is elegant. She trained as a dancer in her youth ...
December 29, 2020
Photo: Jango Edwards’ NCI Workshop/Project Barcelona 2019. Ira, Jango, Franto D Romano. Although the ...
December 23, 2020
In Pittsburgh we had a great tradition for TV wrestling called Studio Wrestling. I’m ...
December 6, 2020
George Carl, the Tumbler George Carl was an excellent tumbler and was the topmounter ...
October 7, 2020
I’m halfway through seeing the three series of the TV show FARGO. As usual ...
August 13, 2020
Clown is a natural phenomenon. Clowns appear in all fields of human activity. I ...
August 9, 2020
Wavy Gravy Wavy Gravy was one of the first radical clowns within the hippie ...
July 14, 2020
Astounding. ACTOR/CLOWN/WRITER SID CAESAR. The link below is the main link/source that someone has ...
May 31, 2020
Comedy made shortly after the Spanish Flu Pandemic. Doctors in the same field may ...
February 6, 2020
Clown Phenomenon – Pony Dance To my understanding ‘clown’ is like the archetypal ‘fool’ ...
November 15, 2019
On the days that I do yoga in my living room I am surrounded ...
December 23, 2016
FOUR CULTURAL HUGS First a bit of background with some thoughts about ...
June 5, 2014
” Cicely Courtneidge was born on April 1, 1893 in Sydney, New South Wales, ...
September 2, 2013
Carlo’s Revenge – Project “Commedia Toto” in part in memory of my teacher Carlo ...
July 4, 2013
Ira has a unique and extensive background with Shakespeare and clown. His first act ...
July 4, 2013
In the BSC 1992 season I played many minor characters in the three plays ...
July 4, 2013
In 1979 I chose to leave the USA to see the European traditional one-ring ...
April 4, 2011
Photo: I hope these folks still with us will permit this photo here. It ...
March 23, 2011
This continues from my blog titled ‘Meetings With Remarkable Clowns”.One of the world’s greatest ...
November 23, 2010
In the finale of Cirque Du Soleil’s Corteo – December 2007 something shifted in ...