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Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.A …
This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of …
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's …
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights …
_______________'A wonderful writer An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure' - Guardian'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene's …
Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive …
During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costumes through which the clowns' …