Yesterday I dropped by my clown guru Wavy Gravy’s house for a visit. Our conversation at one point opened up the topic of mindfulness and it’s current top position in the moving and grooving place...
ITE #3. Alpo Koivumäki and his Alpon Savaani. Finnish Contemporary Folk Art Take the gentle 2 lane highway that swerves out of Karvia's undulating golden wheat fields, through forests of innumerable...
On my day off from performing in the Jacobs Dagen week in Pietarsaari, I head up to Kokola on an ITE pilgrimage as I have heard that there is a museum there dedicated exclusively to ITE-the...
I have been seeing a lot of trees this month. Finland is full of trees, and I would venture to guess that the number of trees easily outnumbers the population (>6 million.) To me is often...
One never knows where the winds of this Mr. YooWho's Summer Holiday Finnish tour will lead. One of the first performances is at the wonderful Vanha Savu Art Gallery in Merikarvia, an older wooden...
London 2006. Our Sunday morning workshop space turned out to be a kindergarden room full of little red chairs. So when it came time to figure out a common object to use for our OD (Order of...
In the midst of a morning news internet read. Scanning the google alerts for the word clown leads to an article about a famous Portuguese writer, Miguel Sousa Tavares. It would seem that in an...
Cali, Colombia. April 2013 My introduction to Cali, the third largest city in Colombia, is a late night ride from the airport into town, a twenty-minute ride amongst the palm trees, a pleasant...
Kosovo 2000. Payasos Sin Fronteras/Clowns Without Borders project in Mitrovica, Kosovo Two Clowns, 70 Kilos of props and costumes. 12 shows in 9 days. This trip to Kosovo was in conjunction with a...