Tag: Clown Conservatory
About a year ago, rumor had it that San Francisco’s Clown Conservatory, which I’d written about in this 2010 blog post, was on its last legs. Another hard pie in the face for Bay Area zaniness, what with the School of the Flying Actor (James Donlon & Leonard Pitt) having recently closed its doors.
Jeff Raz’s performance credits range from Cirque du Soleil to Broadway, his teaching credentials from San Francisco’s Clown Conservatory and ACT to the Big Apple Circus and now all the way to China. His international experience is staggering, and he has already favored us with a guest blog post about Japanese Butoh. This time he has been so kind as to write about his travels as a pioneering clown teacher and director in China. For more, you can visit Jeff’s personal web site here. Thank you Jeff, and also to Calvin, Jonah, Christopher, and Linie for their contributions. —jt
This January I finally got back to San Francisco for a week, my first visit to the west coast in something like seven years; always flying out of the country instead of across it.
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin