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Collaboration – “The Quantum Point”
“The Quantum Point” is what I call the magic space in time where creativity can move in any direction or manner. Physically, the pineal gland is like the embodied metaphor of The Quantum Point. In the book Clown Secret (2018, 2020) there is a chapter Co-Creating. The Quantum Point can be the fulcrum between and…
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Truth Is Not Black or White… it is more grey and fluid like Yin/Yang
This book link below was posted on fb today. This is great to see such a book. I will order it. Certainly in the USA the Entertainment Industry was an ‘activist’ in making the wedge into the public’s psyche to change it’s programmed and historic racism. That activism started already in the early films, but,…
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Post-Pandemic Comedy of 1922 about Doctors/Medicine
Comedy made shortly after the Spanish Flu Pandemic. Doctors in the same field may often hold very different opinions. Thus the old adage “get a second opinion”. If you need a doctor go to one. BUT it is known that one tries to find a ‘good’ one as some doctors are better than others. For…
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Ponydance: Clown? Dance? Or beyond?
Clown Phenomenon – Pony Dance To my understanding ‘clown’ is like the archetypal ‘fool’ as per the tarot card – an independent wanderer about to step from a precipice into an abyss called home. When you see Pony Dance whether in a theatre, street or club it is, as if, you’ve been welcomed home after…
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS FESTIVAL
A GLIMPSE INTO THE AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS FESTIVAL The Australian Circus Festival has just completed it’s 4th attempt. This was more than twice the dimension of the 3rd attempt in 2017. The brainchild of Jasmine Straga an internationally respected teacher, choreographer, and mentor of solo contortionists and aerialists. She is from an artistic gymnastics background and…
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Synchronistic Shakespeare
On the days that I do yoga in my living room I am surrounded by 8 bookcases. When I do seated asanas I am next to 2 of the bookcases. One of those has my books on Shakespeare, Chaplin, Beckett, Joyce. So I always see titles which tempt me. I almost always give in that…
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Trance Acting And Hands
One of the biggest breakthroughs in the teaching of contemporary acting came from Vahktangov when he directed the Jewish troupe Habima in Russia in “The Dybbuk”. He discovered (observed, understood, was inspired by) the way the Jewish actors naturally went into trance and how they used their hands. Vahktangov made other developments in acting including…
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Four Cultural Hugs
FOUR CULTURAL HUGS First a bit of background with some thoughts about Culture and National Identity.The four hugs I have written about each took place within a Cultural experience. Every faction of the world is jostling for the right of judgement through the might of reason and self-defined forms of logic. Logic in the real…
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Shakespeare Space-Time Continuum
SHAKESPEARE’S SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM.This week I saw King Lear and Cymbeline. Huge, long, meandering plays. In London, 2016. Cymbeline is the play with endless endings. King Lear is the play with endless middle scenes. Both have mystical elements as well as very earthy elements of; lust, death, power, family squabbles, tragedy and comedy.I think that the…
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Dame Cecily Courtneidge – female comic acrobat, comedienne. One of Australia’s ‘first’ female ‘clowns’
” Cicely Courtneidge was born on April 1, 1893 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge. Her father was from England”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQNfMFs7uA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Courtneidge She returned to Australia briefly in a comedy musical Under the Counter (1943?). Her fame arose in tandem with her husband http://laughterlog.com/2009/03/24/performers-cicely-courtneidge-and-jack-hulbert/
