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Teaching Is Learning
Teaching is not easy. Every teacher needs to question their self, daily. BKS Iyengar has written a fine book on teaching called “The Tree of Yoga”. A teacher needs to provide an honest history of any subject that they offer.…
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Reviewing the Reviewers
Prior to becoming a resident then citizen of Australia I worked in an avant-garde world of theatre where, at the time, reviews were largely irrelevant. That was then and now is now. On the few occasions that my shows were…
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Beyond The Norm in Clown Training
Beyond the Norm in Clown Training by Ira Seidenstein, PhDThis is a brief article on the subject of Clown Training. The point of the article is to open discussion about topics that seem to lack discourse in the field of…
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Snipets. Prelude to Clown Secret book.
This morning I saw a cloud that was to me like a clown’s face. I will attempt over the next 40 days to write a daily blog. Short or long. This celebrates the omen I saw in the cloud or…
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Shakespeare Productions 2012
The Madness of King Lear – a duet Directed by Ira Seidenstein, Dramaturgy – Ira Seidenstein, Collaborative DevisingOpens at Adelaide Fringe March 8. Onward journey fringe festivals Tokyo, NYC, Avignon, Edinburgh, concludes in Sydney September 2012. JUST CLOWNING – actor/clown…
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Teachers & Mentors
Photo: I hope these folks still with us will permit this photo here. It is the group I mention below. The theatre group at CCAC – Boyce Campus – Pittsburgh. This is the team for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I’m…
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…More Remarkable Clowns
This continues from my blog titled ‘Meetings With Remarkable Clowns”.One of the world’s greatest clowns who also was one of the greatest women clowns, was Lotte Goslar (1907-1997). I saw her company perform, and her solo show as well, and…
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Lecoq – Complements and Criticism
Let’s give credit where credit is due. Copeau and Stanislavsky changed the world of theatre and acting. Everyone else follows in their giant footsteps even if the followers were reactionary. Lecoq in his 2002 (published in English after his death)…
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“Shakespeare’s Clowns” workshop with Ira Seidenstein
“Shakespeare’s Clowns” is one of my new workshops launching in 2011. “Shakespeare’s Clowns” a weekend Quantum Clown workshop will assist any actor, clown, teacher or director to expand their understanding of the true and often hidden nature of Shakespeare’s extensive…
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Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method
Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method After many years in Theatre I saw a pattern in my devised projects was about men & women and their relationship. It is known that every person has…