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One of THE Greatest Clown Routines
photo: Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon were a legendary Clown Duet albeit on TV, for 23 years. One of THE Greatest Clown Routines No one in Clown knows everything about Clown. Every single one of those who would claim to know ‘everything’ about Clown does not know my Method which locates Universal Principles which apply…
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“HAL” of 2001: A Space Odyssey; and HAL’s Non-Clown Clown Source
Non-Clown Clown I.J.Good “HAL” of 2001: A Space Odyssey; and its Non-Clown Clown Source its Non-Clown Clown Source “Alan Turing … had caught Good sleeping on the floor while on duty during his first night shift. At first, Turing thought Good was ill, but he was cross when Good explained that he was just taking a…
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BLOG of 100 BLOGS: INCL EACH LINK – I.S.A.A.C.
photo: Ira Seidenstein teaching Slava Snowshow company’s workshop for University acting students.2012 – Italy. Titles of My Writings: Books; and, Blog/Essays – Ira Seidenstein, PhD My writings include: two books which comprise a pair; Clown Secret (11 chapters), and, Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare (45 essays}. Those 45 titles are listed at end of this…
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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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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…
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Some Truths in Researching – REMNANTS: ENCOUNTERS WITH MY CULTURE.
Weber and Fields I consider a keystone to modern Clown. As you may know or As You (may not) Like It:)… I’m approaching the 5th year of casual coincidental ‘research’ towards my 3rd book “Remnants: Encounters With My Culture”. In part the subject was initiated by just a few individual participants in several of my…
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WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY
WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY Many of my blog/essays provide video evidence that happens to validate my proposed viewpoints. This blog-essay is about the combination: Writing and Clown. This blog-essay is not a comprehensive approach into that huge combined universe of Writing and Clown. The purpose is to illustrate that Writing and Clown is…
