Went to Sloane-Kettering to see a friend today and was there during a visit from the Big Apple Clown Care Unit.  Getting to see Joel Jeske and Audrey Crabtree in action–priceless!

I am analyzing the way I get dinner on the table, the mistakes I make, the timing that is off, I’m looking at it as a performance which can be improved (or not) with notes.  THAT can’t be healthy!

Outside logic and mathematics, the term “axiom” is used loosely for any established principle of some field.  Hmmm.  Clown Axioms–Clown principles
Avener the Eccentric has a list of clown principals on his own website:
©2005 Avner Eisenberg

Clown’s job is to make the audience feel things, and to get the audience to breathe.
Everyone inhales, but many of us [...]

Perfection is elusive, both in performance and in the care and feeding of a family.
I’m not even dressed and already I’ve made compromises and mistakes.  I packed My Kid’s lunch in the pink “baby phat” lunch box with a sandwich and a healthy assortment of fruit and vegetable options (although as I write this I [...]

My Kid watched the last Clown Axioms show from the booth.  She loved it.  She was allowed to bring up the lights on a couple of cues and that was a thrill for her.  The woman who ran the light and sound board is so nice to have let My Kid sit up there with [...]

It was a busy day of staying on track so that I could be at the theatre by 5:30 pm for the pick-up rehearsal.  I ran some errands after morning school drop-off.  Then I went home and did the dishes and some other things.  I took a shower and got ready for the show.  Then [...]

After we performed, I went with some of the other clowns and I went to Le Pain Quotidien which was pleasant in the rain.  We shared a basket of bread as we drank our tea and coffee.  One of the women talked about her vision of a little blonde girl in a strawberry field, the [...]

Tonight was the Black Tie, Red Noses fundraising event for Clowns Without Boarders at the Brooklyn Lyceum.  I would have liked to attend. Oh well, it had to be a mommy evening, not a clown evening.

I am still struggling with the production process and how it all went down, how Kendall was disappointed with my work and I was so upset that I shook.
Because Kendall told me that I was drifty and unfocused in rehearsal and because of all the talk about stepping up and taking on production tasks, I [...]

Tonight I went to Jef Johnson’s Clownlab at Theatrelab. It was refreshing to work in another approach to clowning. I enjoyed playing with relationships without text and watching others in the space.
Several of the participants had been to see Clown Axioms this weekend and gave me some lovely comments.