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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"clown"”.
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Toward a Female Clown Practice: Transgression, Archetype and Myth
Women who learn to clown within Western contemporary theatre and performance training lack recognizably female exemplars of this popular art form. This practice-as-research thesis analyses my past and present clowning experiences in order to create an understanding of a woman-centered clown …
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Clown, o avesso de si : uma análise do clownesco na pós-modernidade
… tem como objetivo principal analisar como o clown (ou palhaço) habita a cultura pós-moderna, fazendo ver e reverberar o seu potencial de clínica e a inseparabilidade entre palco e vida. Tratamos o clown como caso-pensamento e como figura que foi apropriada pelo imaginário social, com uma …
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Sometimes Sad People Are Hard to Be Around: Fragility, Failure, and Resilience Through Clown
This artist’s statement will explore the creative and analytical processes that supported my thesis production of Just Like the Moon by Lizz Windnagel et al. at the University of Calgary. The production opened and closed on November 27th 2020. PART I - DREAMS emphasizes my research and the …
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The Whiteface and the Auguste: the integration of structure and spontaneity in contemporary clown theatre performance
… in the creation, rehearsal and performance of clown theatre. In my view, the Whiteface and Auguste clown partnership arguably represents a break in the tradition of circus clowns towards a more modern way of understanding and thinking about clowning informed by ideas around spontaneity and …
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Clowndance: Convergences in contemporary dance and theatrical clowning for pleasure-led performer training
… work across the borders of dance and clown. The central research aim is to develop Clowndance; an innovative pleasure-led approach to physical performer training located at the convergence of theatrical clowning and contemporary dance. Clowndance has been explored and delivered through …
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Coulrophobia: An Investigation into the Prevalence, Origins and Psychological Basis of the Fear of Clowns
<b>Introduction</b>: Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, is an anxiety disorder which can be categorised as a specific phobia within the subtype of “Other” in the DSM-5-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Although clown fear has been widely discussed in popular media, it remains …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… English music-hall, American vaudeville, circus clowning and, finally, early screen comedy in order to present us with a vision of the human condition that is as universal as it is devastatingly comical or, for that matter, comically devastating. Special attention is paid to Beckett's deployment …
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A experiência de tornar-se palhaço e a influência na relação de cuidado
This is a study on the experience of the Clown in health care practices. We seek to know and understand how this experience is felt in care relations with the other and how it interferes with the perceptions that people have of themselves, of the care practices and of the environment. This paper …
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Clowning in the Brechtian tradition
This thesis examines how far clowning can be used to augment the aims and effects of a Brechtian theatricality. To do so, it first establishes a series of characteristic processes for the identification and analysis of clowning, based on the author's own clown training with John Wright and Philippe …
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From Clowns to Computers: Performing Theatrical Interactivity and Pervasive Transmedia Fictions
… Toronto-based U.N.I.T. Productions, featuring clown duo Morro and Jasp, and an eight-month long, massive, trans- media fiction project called ZED.TO, created by The Mission Business, a local event design company where I worked in 2012 as both writer and narrative designer. The central research …
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(E)merging idioms: integrating jazz and classical ensembles.
… The portfolio contains three works: The Clown, for fourteen players; Into the Wood, for nine players; Time Frames, for 10 players.
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Notes On Distance Dialing
… was “Kamala the Ugandan Giant.” There was a clown. The greytoned pixels on my dad’s tiny television gave all this a timeless, literary quality, in the same way that Cary Grant can cross his eyes and do a spit-take and still end a scene without any champagne on his lapels.
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Le Nouveau Cirque
… by various acts and characters, such as a circus clown. The images used in my art are all clown girl portraits or the girls performing a circus act. As my ideas evolved, I realized the inspiration of combining circus and female portraits in my work stemmed from my experience as a color guard …
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Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later
… Hero (responsible overachiever), Mascot (family clown), Scapegoat (rebellious/disruptive behaviours), and Lost Child (withdrawn/isolated). Data were collected from 327 participants (M age = 35.3 years) who self-identified and were grouped as ACOA, Abused, ACOA+Abused, or Control. Generally, the …
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Terapia do Riso em crianças hospitalizadas: uma revisão sistemática da literatura.
… laughter therapy OR happiness therapy AND clown doctor AND hospitalized children. A qualidade das investigações foi avaliada a partir da análise metodológica do estudo e a maioria deles apresentou pequeno número de indivíduos na amostra. Dez artigos foram incluídos para análise detalhada, …
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Calling All Clowns - A Creative Project and A Personal Journey
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Calling All Clowns - A Creative Project and A Personal Journey
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How do parents respond to changing ecological and social environments: insights from a coral reef fish with biparental care
… environmental change. My dissertation used the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) study system to explore plasticity in parenting strategies in response to variable ecological and social environments. In Part I, I investigated plasticity in response to ecological environment. First, I …
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Caulrophobia: An investigation of clinical features
… when exposed to the image and/or person of a clown (Stevenson, 2010). It may start in childhood and continue into adulthood (Spratley, 2009). There is limited scientific literature on this topic despite multiple online support groups attesting to the reality of this condition. Methods: Data …
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