Physical Limits in Technical 3 and 4 ball juggling

I'm not generally a big fan of technical juggling, but this video is pretty astounding.

Suzanne Santos Clown Character Workshop Dec. 5/6 (SF)

Character Clowning and Clowning in Ensemble Workshop
with Suzanne Santos
At the Flying Actor Studio

December 5th and 6th, Saturday and Sunday
10 am – 5 pm both days, with a 30 minute lunch break

$125

This 2 day intensive clown workshop is for anyone who wants to furtherdevelop a clown character that has already been in performance, or for birthing a new clown persona. We will work solo, as well as in duos and trios, using exercises emphasizing appetites, hierarchy, presence and play.
Most importantly, we will work on how you are funny by incorporating mask technique, improvisation, physical expression, and commedia dell arte.

Please come prepared with at least one costume, a red nose, a lunch and a notebook.

The Flying Actor Studio is located at 40 First Street, 3rd Floor in San Francisco. Walking distance from Montgomery and Embarcadero stations.

For questions or to register for the class please email or call:
suzsantos@gmail.com or 818-414-1967

Suzanne Santos is in her second year performing with San Francisco's Pickle Family Circus School Tour in over 40 Alameda County Schools. She has also been seen with her original clown piece "The Damsel's Demise" at the New York Clown
Festival (Brick) and FOOLSFury Festival (Traveling Jewish Theatre).

Suzanne is also a company member of 108 Productions, with whom she performed and toured Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi" internationally (Zephyr Theatre, LA; Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh; Voice Factory, SF; Smock Alley, Dublin) and off-Broadway (Rattlestick Theatre) for the last 3 years.

Suzanne is the resident circus teaching artist of San Francisco Arts
Education Project, where she teaches at ARTSummer and San Francisco public schools. Suzanne is the lead Clown Therapist at Edgewood Center for Children and Families. She also has taught the Circus Apprentice Program at the Circus Center. She has worked with Dell'Arte International since 2005 as a Stage Manager ("Flock", "Circo Stupendo") and Assistant Director for Dell'Arte Youth Academy (2006, 2008). Summer of 2009, she was Director of the Youth Academy. As a teaching artist and clown therapist, she gets to inspire a diverse population of students while forwarding the social circus movement for positive community change.

Suzanne holds a BA in Theatre from George Fox University, an MA in Theatrical Clowning from New College of California's Experimental Performance Institute, and is a graduate of Clown Conservatory (2007) and Dell'Arte International (2005).

For more information about Suzanne's work, visit her website listed below:

http://www.suzsantos.com

If the Nose Fits...

Great article about Stanley Allen Sherman and his clown nose making career.

READ THE ARTICLE

Find out more about Stanley Allen Sherman at his website listed below:

http://www.maskarts.com/

There's also a YouTube video:

Inside Out (Cirkus Cirkör at BAM- NY) Nov 12-15

Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Cirkus Cirkör
Live music by Irya's Playground
Directed By Tilde Björfors

"...A magical breathtaking performance...a powerful inter-disciplinary work of art..." —Skånska Dagbladet (Sweden)

The human body unfolds as a surreal rock and roll fantasy in Inside Out, Swedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör's phantasmagoric journey into the outer reaches of inner life. Accompanied onstage by dub-punk-new wave-electro-inspired band Irya's Playground and featuring a mix of highly skilled acrobatics, musical theater, and spectacle, Inside Out boggles the mind by way of the body. Actors and acrobats course through veins, explode through space like uncoiled strands of DNA, and lunge across synapses to become the body electric. Don't miss this if you have the chance to see it.


Nov 12 & 13 at 7:30pm
Nov 14 at 2 & 7:30pm
Nov 15 at 3pm
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
110min with intermission
Tickets: $25, 45, 60
In English
Appropriate for ages 5 & up

Splinterhead Clown Noses in Union Square November 7 (NY)

Splinterheads Takes Union Square

Saturday Nov 7, 2009

at Union Square Park:

In support of the upcoming independent film, Splinterheads, Come get down with the clowns in Union Square Park on Saturday 11/7/2009!

They are handing out over 3000 RED NOSES to create one of the most unique iconic New York photograph that Union Square has ever seen.

Where: Union Square Park South, facing the DSW store sign
When: 4:30 PM (and not a minute later!)
What: don your nose, raise you hands and look into the sky for the coolest aerial photo Union Square has ever seen!


There are a couple of ways to get your nose.

1pm-5pm "Joey The Clown", the rudest dunking clown in the business, will be set up on 13th street between 4th and Broadway accompanied by a carnival atmosphere with fans, cast and filmmakers, and carnival attractions. Come and show off your Yankees pitching skills and try and drown the clown. Free noses will be handed out from 1pm-4pm.


Splinterheads will be playing at the Regal Union Square Theater
Noses will also be handed out at the 11:50am and 2:20pm showings.

*2:20pm - Chris McDonald and Lea Thompson will give a Q and A

See the trailer at: http://www.splinterheads.com and buy tickets at http://www.Fandango.com

Call for Female Clown Shows- 2010 Festival (Austria)

Clownin, the biennial Austrian women’s clown festival ( I really like it in German- Clownfrauen Festival) will hold its third festival at the Kosmos Theater in Vienna, Austria from November 26-December 4, 2010.

 It is one of two other international women's clown festivals (in Andorra and Rio)

Following the big success of their 2006 & 2008 festivals , they wish to continue to promote international exchange between artists, and display the full diversity of women clowns.  They also expect to host workshops, panels, and promote theory, pedagogy, and a healthy dose of networking as well.

They are looking for shows played mainly or only by women clowns for an adult audience- shows for children or only acrobatic presentations wil not be accepted.

They'll choose about 12 evening shows and several short numbers (for the Opening and Cabaret-Program).






Applications are due March 31st, 2010

The curators for this festival are Pamela Schartner, Gaby Pfluegl and Kosmos Theater artistic director Barbara Klein.

For more information or an application
Contact: info@clownin.at

Website:http://www.www.clownin.at/