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Working on the question "What is Clown?", a somewhat unaswerable question that quite a few ponder...here are a few salient points from Angela De Castro, Brazilian clown great who makes her home in England. This conversation took place in the bar of a noisy restaurant...

November.2009. I just received an email from Hiromi in Japan, a friend and clowning student. For the past few years she has been doing volunteer Clown Doctor work, visiting Elders in several nursing home facilities in Tokyo on a regular basis. She and her clown...

Contemplating the relationship between one’s sense of humor, one’s sense of joy and one’s spirituality, and their relation to the word Clown has become a preoccupation of mine. Spirituality?  Laughter can be cathartic, especially shared in large groups in positive...

I was saddened, like many others, to hear of Utah Phillips passing. The warmth of his gravely voice rides deep in my heart. In June of 2002 I interviewed him backstage at the Kate Wolf festival on the Black Oak Ranch in California. We had crossed paths numerous times...

Nani and Leris Colombiani at Anjos Do Picadeiro Festival, 2002. Photo Celso Pereira Extract from an interview with Leris at the Anjos do Picadeiro festival in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Leris: Clown seeing everything like a child, is a parody of life. Moshe:  What do you...

Wavy Gravy on Sacred Clown Wavy Gravy (a.k.a. Hugh Romney) is a social activist clown who also is the director of the circus and performing arts summer camp Camp Winnarainbow. He likes to be known sometimes as a 'Temple of Accumulated Error'. Much more about him at...

Julie Goell was a wonderful clown performer and teacher. She passed away in December 2016, her memory is a great blessing.  In 2007, I had the opportunity for this conversation right after her show in the theater in the round of the Cococabana SESC in Rio in Brazil....