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Clown – Teaching Clown – Self Refinement as An Artist
photo – Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton in Paris. Gabor was acting in the film The Moulin Rouge (1952). Keaton was performing a short season across the street at Cirque Medrano. Clown – Teaching Clown In Clown and in Teaching and Directing and Choreographing Clown and clowning, I am particularly interested in assisting you…
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Teaching Clown – An Enormous Problem – Illumination & Solution – For The Love of Clown
photo – Lucille Ball in The Big Street (1942) Teaching Clown – An Enormous Problem – Illumination & Solution – For The Love of Clown This is a “long and winding road”. It is a rave and rant. A romp. It is provocative. And fun. Good luck. Let’s begin: I LOVE all sorts of clowns.…
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The Laconic Non-Clown Clown Brilliant Artist
Artwork Reuben Heyday Margolin For this blog there will be no essay. There will simply be three links. The artist is Reuben Heyday Margolin. This link is a wonderful introduction to Reuben as a person and to set the stage for his artwork. The second link is a truly laconic non-clown clown video done in…
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Sketch of Return – duologue – 10 minutes
The photo is NOT from Sketch of Return. The comical glasses, nose, and moustache are. The photo is from a workshop showing. As the teacher, I was asked (insisted upon) to participate in the showing. I asked the actors to take whatever costume bits they wanted out of our bits bags. I would take from…
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Artist in Exile… a play about The Other
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”. Finally in Sweden long enough I thought I should learn about their famous ‘national’ playwright August Strindberg. I didn’t really understand much of the Swedish language. It may be that Strindberg’s plays are or were done so often throughout the world that in numbers of productions perhaps…
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Thoughts on Luzia – Cirque du Soleil. By Jim Pickles
Photo – “Kitsch Cans – The Gold-Crested Toilets.” Outdoor ‘facilities’ Luzia – CDS Jim Pickles is a Lecturer on Anatomy of Contortion. He is the Author and Researcher of the preferred text book on the anatomy and physiology of Hearing. Now in its 4th Edition. Jim is also a fan, student, and practitioner of Dance,…
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CLOWN CODE – Part 3 – CLOWN THINKING
Gertrude Berg-one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit comedy Berg’s radio show was 15-minutes per episode. The show ran for 20 years. The show was possibly the first ‘sit-com” which I propose is a genre of Clown. Sit-com is very often great clowning. As has been some…
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CLOWN CODE© PART 2
Sammy Davis, Jr and Arte Johnson on Rowan & Martin’s LAUGH-IN CLOWN CODE© PART 2 Here are some of the main points of discussion which were in CLOWN CODE Part 1. PART 2 Assumes that you have read Part 1. Part 1 includes a 4 minutes videoed, super short, demonstration and explanation of the first…
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CLOWN CODE AND ITS PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES – an I.S.A.A.C. concept (Part 1)
The Three Keatons Vaudeville act circa 1900 about the time of Buster’s official stage premiere age 5 CLOWN CODE© AND ITS PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES an I.S.A.A.C. concept (Part 1) Here is the great gateway into the inner world of Clown, Clowns, clowning. THE 11 CLOWN CODE PRINCIPLES copyright©Ira Seidenstein, have direct application to classical acting for…
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Two Extremely Educated (and even intelligent) Non-Clown Clown Rabbis
Photo is Magician and book collector Harry Houdini. Houdini donated his books and manuscripts collection to The Library of Congress https://www.britannicauctions.com/blog/harry-houdini-rare-book-collection Two Extremely Educated (and even intelligent) Non-Clown Clown Rabbis The two Rabbis in question had extensive secular educations. Steinsaltz to some degree in Science. Sacks was educated at the universities of Cambridge; Oxford; and…