BEYOND THE NORM IN CLOWN TRAINING
There are a few patterns in clown training that each tends to be dogmatic within its own borders, and, tends to be antagonistic towards other viewpoints.
I have created a disruptive technology of succinct creative exercises each of which deals directly with the essential problems of teaching clown.
The benefit of my method is that it leads directly to self-empowerment for any participant, no matter what their level of experience or skill.
November 24, 2025
photo: Ira Seidenstein teaching Slava Snowshow company’s workshop for University acting students.2012 – Italy. ...
November 18, 2025
photo: Pinto Colvig the original Bozo the Clown “American Clown” The Documentary Stemming from ...
November 12, 2025
photo – Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton in Paris. Gabor was acting in ...
October 31, 2025
photo – Lucille Ball in The Big Street (1942) Teaching Clown – An Enormous ...
December 3, 2024
Gertrude Berg-one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a ...
November 27, 2024
Sammy Davis, Jr and Arte Johnson on Rowan & Martin’s LAUGH-IN CLOWN CODE© PART ...
November 12, 2024
The Three Keatons Vaudeville act circa 1900 about the time of Buster’s official stage ...
April 15, 2024
A PLAY ON WORLDS (1989). PR Photo left to right: Theo Coumbis; Georgia Lejeune; ...
July 12, 2023
Painting by Norman Rockwell “Checkers” 1928. I consider Rockwell a “Non-Clown Clown”. His medium ...
June 24, 2023
Photo: Lucille Ball honoured by a charity group. Photographed with fellow legendary clowns: Milton ...
June 20, 2023
Today I was asked: What does jo-ha-kyu mean in your Jo-Ha-Kyu Exercise because several ...
June 14, 2023
Photo: Ira as “Mo” in “MoMents” created by Jane Barber, Annette Schoenberger, Kristen Duffus ...
June 14, 2023
Photo: THE CRACKUP SISTERS – Creator Amanda-Lyn Pearson (white hat) with Bianca Mackail Part ...
June 14, 2023
Photo: Ira and Kristen in slapstick acrobatic show Building Blocks Part 2 : SPACE ...
June 13, 2023
Photo – Ira Seidenstein What Does a Clown Know? Reflections on creativity, culture and ...
May 5, 2023
Excerpts from Clown Secret Ch. 1 – The Eruption and Evolution of the Method: ...
March 14, 2023
BUSTER KEATON AS HAMLET IN THE FILM DAYDREAMS “Shakespeareitis” – or, something’s rotten in ...
February 10, 2023
Lana Turner and Leon Errol in Dancing Co-Ed 1939. Errol born in Sydney studied ...
February 8, 2023
Do you know these two? Do you know the film? Clown is a natural ...
December 13, 2022
MARC CHAGALL LE CLOWN DE LE CIRQUE (1967) Healing the Theatre and Clown Training? ...
May 10, 2021
Vaudeville: Patter; Shtik; Double Talk featuring “Shaw and Lee”. Vaudeville had sight acts, comedy ...
January 10, 2021
This is a small excerpt from my new book. If you copy any of ...
August 25, 2020
There was a time when one said they were in “show business” or “show ...
August 24, 2020
Martha Graham was one of the most prolific directors/creators of live performance. From the ...
July 10, 2020
June 26, 2020
Jazz Musicians; Scientists: People can be ‘clowns’ without doing clowning as a profession. “Non-Clown ...
June 5, 2020
“The Quantum Point” is what I call the magic space in time where creativity ...
July 4, 2013
Teaching is not easy. Every teacher needs to question their self, daily. BKS Iyengar ...
May 31, 2013
Beyond the Norm in Clown Training by Ira Seidenstein, PhD This is a brief ...
April 19, 2013
This morning I saw a cloud that was to me like a clown’s face. ...
March 23, 2011
Let’s give credit where credit is due. Copeau and Stanislavsky changed the world of ...
January 27, 2011
“Shakespeare’s Clowns” is one of my new workshops launching in 2011. “Shakespeare’s Clowns” a ...
January 24, 2011
Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method After many ...
November 25, 2010
THE SEIDENSTEIN METHOD HISTORICAL CONTEXT We are post-modern practitioners. Culturally we have experienced Robert ...
November 24, 2010
Tough love. How to address the Emperor’s New Clothes in the training of Actors, ...