Full Description
This comprehensive guide to clown training invites you into the clown workshop and leads you through a complete clown syllabus - from the first steps in playfulness to the work of devising and creating performable numbers and shows.
Exploring key clown training methods and drawing on Jon Davison's experience as a leading international clown teacher, Clown Training offers detailed descriptions and analyses of a wide range of techniques, games and exercises. Both practical and reflective, this is the ideal companion for students and teachers of clowning alike.
Contents
Acnowledgements
Introduction
PART I: TRAINING
1. Play and Pleasure
2. Clown and Audience
3. The Flop and other Clown Dynamics (and the dynamics of eliciting laughter)
4. Epilogue to Part I: Noses and Hats
PART II: DEVISING CLOWN MATERIAL
5. An Encyclopaedia of Wrongness
6. Structure
7. Making Shows
8. Epilogue to Part II: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.
