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Great article about Guy LaLiberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil, in the NYT today.  Astonishing factoid: Cirque’s 22 current productions, including its standing Las Vegas shows and the touring big-top productions, annually sell about as many tickets as all Broadway shows combined. This is pretty amazing.   Read the whole article There will be another article next week about their […]

According to this article at Findlaw, Linda Beaudouin, a former clown, is pushing the Canadian government to license clowns, Santa Claus’s, and other children’s entertainers.  She’s doing this because she’s a survivor of child abuse, and feels this would be a way to further limit child abuse.  See her website for more details about this aspect of her work. She […]

I featured the RCCU 10nth anniversary workshops back in April–   Just wanted to remind you that you have 10 days to register if you haven’t already.  

This is one of the most interesting collaborations I’ve seen.  Yo Yo Ma– world famous cellist, and Lil Buck, who is a mime/dancer/breaker/popper. Although Yo YO does a great job here, I think the video belongs to Lil Buck, who does some amazing things slowly, with amazing grace, and with a kind of fluidity and virtuosity that make time seem […]

Wavy Gravy, Clown Prince of Woodstock, and perennial ice cream flavor, is turning 75, and he’s doing it in style. He’s holding a benefit for the Seva Foundation, an organization that helps give the gift of sight to lots of under-privileged kids around the world. The bash will feature performances by Steve Earle, Ani DiFranco, Dr. John, Buffy Sainte- Marie, […]

It is with a lot of pride (and no small amount of envy) that I announce that my friend Pat Cashin  (and blogger behind http://www.clownalley.net ) is the new Captain Kangaroo! He acquired the trademark, and is set to do all kinds of great things with it, including (hopefully) make a boatload of money with which he will then give […]

I just got a note from dell’arte, which is an astonishing deal if you have the time and a friend who wants to do the Dell’arte Intensive.   Basically, an alumni student can bring a friend to Dell’arte, and as long as the friend pays for the class, the alumni goes free!  Which sounds more like a 50% off deal to […]

Reminder that the Naked Empire Bouffon Class (which I profiled here) starts in a few days.  If you haven’t, you should definitely sign up. Register HERE.

Congrats to Chris Lueck (founder of the NY Downtown Clown Revue, alter ego Otsie Kerplotsie, and half of the Hey Ya Brothers) and his bride Amanda Pekoe, (principal of the The Pekoe Group) who got married a couple of weeks ago in South Beach.  And the NYTimes covered it! The Vows section is difficult to get into, (I should know, […]

Over at the Pat Cashin’s most excellent Clown Alley Blog, he posts and paraphrases Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for clown gags. They are quite good, and worthwhile remembering. If you’d like to read more, it’s from the book [amazon_link id=”0385334230″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Slapstick[/amazon_link]  which is available on Amazon. PLEASE NOTE:  Pat wrote to explain that the rules are NOT from […]

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When I went to Dell’arte, it was a year long conservatory style program with a fixed curriculum.  The second year was optional, and open to all past alumni, focusing on a specific style (clown, commedia, mask, melodrama, etc).  The final exam/project was a tour throughout rural Northern California of a play that you and your classmates devised, built, designed, promoted, […]

These are two great shows that I previewed/reviewed earlier.  They both end this weekend, so see them if you can. Cirque Mechanics preview article Potato Needs a Bath Review New Victory website (for tickets and more info)