Send in the Clowns

ISBN-13: 9781032279824 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.

Opis

Send in the Clowns presents interviews with 24 pioneering humanitarian and activist clowns and thought leaders working in hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages and war zones, and at the sites of street protests and locations of social unrest, across the world.

Spis treści

The Clown as Healer: A Brief History of the Humanitarian Clown

The Medical Clowns

1. Patch Adams / Gesundheit! Institute (USA)

2. Michael Christensen / Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit (USA)

3. Karen McCarty, Deborah Kaufmann, Dina Paul-Parks, John Luongo / Healthy Humor (USA)

4. Caroline Simonds / Le Rire Médecin (France)

5. Tsour Shriqui / Dream Doctors (Israel)

6. David “Dush” Barashi / Dream Doctors (Israel)

7. Giora Seeliger / Red Noses International (Europe)

8. Wellington Nogueira / Doutores da Alegria (Brazil)

9. Raquel Gendry / Narices Rojas (Ecuador)

10. Sheetal Agarwal / Clownselors (India)

11. Jean-Louis Lokossou / Association of Africa Clowns (Benin)

Clowns at the Edge

12. Naomi Shafer / Clowns Without Borders (USA)

13. Moshe Cohen / Clowns Without Borders (USA)

14. Ash Perrin / The Flying Seagulls Project (UK)

15. Jan Tomasz Rogola / Doctor Clown (Ukraine)

16. Sabine Choucair / Clown Me In (Lebanon)

17. Hiroyuki Shirai / Angels of Saturday (Japan)

18. Jed Selter / Caring Clowns (USA)

19. Marietou Thiam / Sencirk (Senegal)

Truth to Power

20. Robyn Hambrook / Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (UK)

21. Hilary Ramsden / Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (UK)

22. Jennifer Miller / Circus Amok (USA)

23. Arturo Gaskins / National Circus of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

24. Jay Jordan / Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (UK)

O autorze

David Bridel is an artist, scholar, author and educator, and the Founding and Artistic Director of The Clown School in Los Angeles, a studio devoted to the study and practice of clowning and related theater arts. His work as a playwright, director, teacher and choreographer has been seen in theaters, opera houses, and at festivals around the world.

Mike Funt has led workshops in clown, mask, improv, and circus arts in China, India, Japan, England, France, Brazil and all over the U.S., with his home base as Associate Artistic Director of The Clown School.