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Non-Clown Clown Lady
“She found work washing dishes and posing as a nude model.[2] This same year, she hired the 17-year-old Georg Kreisler as a rehearsal pianist to continue focus on cabaret work. By 1941, she had opened the Beggar Bar in New York. It was a cabaret/restaurant that was filled with mismatched furniture.[6]Julian Beck, Judith Malina,[1] and Jackson Pollock worked for her.[12]Tennessee Williamsalso worked…
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Vaudeville: Patter; Shtik; Double Talk
Vaudeville: Patter; Shtik; Double Talk featuring “Shaw and Lee”. Vaudeville had sight acts, comedy acts, sketch comedy, and music. The comedians generally were multi-skilled using song, dance, verbal comedy, and Slapstick. Their acts also were the comedians acting as their own stock character. In the early days of Vaudeville the comedians performed as one of…
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Artistic Soul Mates
Research is fun when you trust the subconscious and the spontaneous. My friend Yiss Mill sent me a video of the band he was playing with, Aljamia in Sydney. Their Eastern music was wonderful and their guest solo dancer was outstanding. I was inspired and made a 45-second video to send to Yiss. In the…
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Fabulous Fable
“Revenge of the myth” Gershom Scholem According to Indigenous cultures, their myths are truthful. Their knowledge of the mystical side of life and the Universe is encoded in their myths. Cultural systems such as Indigenous; Taoism; Vedic; Kabbalistic are no more far fetched than Quantum Mechanics and the as yet unprovable Big Bang. The Big…
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Jerry Lewis School of Clown?
JERRY LEWIS SCHOOL OF CLOWN? Here you will find out what one of the most talented clowns in modern times, Jerry Lewis, did as he explains how he tried to ‘get it’ and how he ‘owned it’. This article explains what the ‘it’, a Clown Secret is all about. Below is an excerpt from an…
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Supreme Clown
Thanks to someone named Peter for posting this link of Andy Kaufman. I have only seen a few videos of Kaufman. He, as he is, is Supreme. It is almost like looking at a masterpiece of art or music or dance etc. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” as the saying goes. If…
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Multicultural Theatre. Multiculturalism.
This is a small excerpt from my new book. If you copy any of it for sharing please include: “Excerpt from Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare copyrights Ira Seidenstein”. The book is available now via any independent book seller or online seller via individual orders as print-on-demand. This is one short essay out of 46.…
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The Most Elegant Clown
Swedish Clown Eva Rydberg is elegant. She trained as a dancer in her youth and began professional contracts as a teenager. She was a dancer in touring tent circuses including the most beautiful Circus Scott during its pinnacle years. She’s a classical actress with a speciality in the genre called “Revue”. Revue is usually light…
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Awful Clowns Are Wonderful
Photo: Jango Edwards’ NCI Workshop/Project Barcelona 2019. Ira, Jango, Franto D Romano. Although the impulse for this post is to support a performance piece and its co-creators, the mere thought of writing always opens my preferred creative approach that is to think tangentially. I’m not interested to write a codified review of an art product.…
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One Clown Who I Forgot… until today!
In Pittsburgh we had a great tradition for TV wrestling called Studio Wrestling. I’m on a Pittsburgher fb network and today someone posted a photo of our greatest referee who was essentially a clown. We all adored him. Izzy Moidel. His schtick was to be a ‘blind’ referee, that means he would always miss seeing…
