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DOGS AND CLOWNS… a match made in heaven
DOGS AND CLOWNS – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN What do dogs have to do with clown and creativity? As you may recall from the previous newsletter, I’ve been on a 2 month journey into the inner nature of creativity. The map has been the solo portion of The Four Articulations. In Clown Secret in…
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Thoughts From A Young Artist: Grėtė Šmitaitė
INTRODUCTION Followed by Grėtė Šmitaitė’s reply to two questions KANDINSKY “According to Kandinsky, every artist has a threefold responsibility, which is (1) to exercise the talent he has—to express the inner necessity (italics mine) within him, (2) like every person, by actions, feelings, and thoughts to create a spiritual atmosphere, and (3) to use…
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An Elephant Walks Into a Room and Nobody Notices….. a slight insight into Jewish Humour in the key of b-flat.
Ed Wynn in photo above. An Elephant walks into a room and nobody notices… a slight insight into Jewish Humour in the key of b-flat. A number of times in recent years this was said to me: “Ira, why are there so many Jewish clowns”? After a few years I began to seek an answer. Mostly 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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Is Nonsense Necessary to Make Sense of Society?
Is Nonsense Necessary to Make Sense of Society? I think that nonsense is a necessary part of the human mind. It is not something likely to be provable. Provable generally tends to mean – scientifically provable. But the social sciences are soft sciences that involve one’s perception. Hard science claims that perception and the personal…
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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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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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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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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…
