Remember the Creepy Clown Craze?
Remember when the creepy killer clowns came to town? In September 2016 an unprecedented wave of ‘creepy killer clowns’ swept the United...
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CLOWN SPIRIT BLOG
Giovanni Fusetti: The Master of Movement
In the beginning was the body. Jacques Lecoq’s methodology is the origin and foundation of everything Giovanni does. Movement first. Get...
Getting Creative with the Kids
I love involving my family in my creative processes. Fortunately for me, my kids love it too. Since they were very young we’ve often...
Has The Clown Duo Gone Out of Style?
We are all familiar with the idea of comedians operating in pairs. Just think of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, or (in the UK)...
Lucy's Clown Breakthrough
How my client Lucy broke through her own barriers to create a perfect clown masterpiece.
Clown Hacks To Enhance Your Life
Clowning really is transformative. In more ways than one. It should, of course, transform the audience, whoever that may be. But it’s...
Formulas For Being Funny
Are there rules and recipes that help us create original work as clowns (or any kind of artist, for that matter)? Many people have tried...
Facing Fear (in clown and in life)
One of the most basic and yet most challenging clown exercises we do is called ‘Present Yourself.’ In this exercise we simply put on a...
Being 'Yourself' in Clown
What does it mean to 'be yourself' in the context of clowning.
The Art of Persuasion: should clowns be influencers?
What does it mean to influence? To change someone? Or to transform them? I often talk about transformation as one goal of clowning. So...
Tears of the Clown: are clowns really sad on the inside?
There is a persistent myth about clowns that their broad painted smiles are masking a deep sadness, even tragedy. I have heard it...
Clown Breath: the secret to building flow and connection
The first thing you forget to do when you find yourself in front of any audience is to breathe. You see this over and over in workshops....
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