The Education of a Circus Clown

Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes

Gebonden Engels 2015 9781137554819
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2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association

2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society

The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.

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ISBN13:9781137554819
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction: Come in: Introducing Key Concepts and Avoiding Clichés<br>1. Romance of the Red Nose: Ringling "Clown College" Experience <br>2. Bowl of Cherries: Easy Adjustment to Circus Rehearsals <br>3. The Rubber (Nose) Meets the Road: Hard Adjustment to Rigors of Trouping <br>4. The Show Business: Finding Performance Truth in Business Necessities<br>5. Love ' 'em and Leave ' 'em: Making the Work of Clowning Personal <br>6. The Good Old Days?: The Past Informs the Present, and Isn ' 't Really Past<br>7. Rodeo Route: Routine Drags, Then Offers Inspiration <br>8. Spirit of St. Louis: Losing and Finding A Performance Partner <br>9. Live: Being Alive to Genuine Human Interaction<br>10. Stop Giggling: Stop Giggling: Using the Immediate Moment to Create Comedy<br>11. Clown Mask: Fighting Clichés and Enacting Them <br>12. So Far, So Good: Lessons of the Veterans, A New Veteran ' 's Lessons <br>Appendix A: 1976 Clown College and 1977 Blue Unit Route Appendix B: A Brief Cultural & Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly American) Clowning History, as a Means of Providing Context for the Preceding Individual & Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly Evolving) Clown ' 's History

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