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Acting Clown Actor – Ira Seidenstein's blog

  • Creative Acting
  • Clown Training
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The Clown Movement

The Clown Movement has a continual need to be updated. Your experience with clown is part of a global continuum throughout the ages.

The Clown Movement is comprised of different visions. The Quantum/ISAAC vision is that those visions can be complementary. The Quantum/ISAAC accomplishes that by seeing underneath the differing ideas a foundation of Universal Principles.

For example:

The Principle of One implies that whatever one experiences is a direct metaphor about oneself. The Principle of One can be part of your tools of the trade to develop your own vision of clowning.

The method and techniques of Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare provide a real pathway: to create; or to develop; or to change your own vision of clowning or of creativity generally. 

"There are no conclusions, only further discussion."

Key to Creativity: ISAAC's Way of Clown

ALL articles

BLOG of 100 BLOGS: INCL EACH LINK – I.S.A.A.C.

THE GODLINESS OF CLOWN

2024 Exoneration of Denialism as Defined 2012

Other Lives

Learning To Learn: struggle is the DNA of being an artist

Artistic Hearts – Secrets in my Method

On Teaching: Acting and Clown.

Absurd Moods – videoed early experimental Clown Theatre piece

For The Love of Shakespeare: call a spade a spade

REMNANTS – ENCOUNTERS WITH MY CULTURE. Prelude to my future book, part 1

WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

DOGS AND CLOWNS… a match made in heaven

Thoughts From A Young Artist: Grėtė Šmitaitė

An Elephant Walks Into a Room and Nobody Notices….. a slight insight into Jewish Humour in the key of b-flat.

Fabulous Fable

Jerry Lewis School of Clown?

Is Nonsense Necessary to Make Sense of Society?

Truth Is Not Black or White… it is more grey and fluid like Yin/Yang

A GLIMPSE INTO THE AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS FESTIVAL

Trance Acting And Hands

Shakespeare Space-Time Continuum

Reviewing the Reviewers

Shakespeare Productions 2012

Beyond the Norm in Clown Training

ALL articles

BLOG of 100 BLOGS: INCL EACH LINK – I.S.A.A.C.

“American Clown” The Documentary Stemming from “Bozo the Clown”.

Clown – Teaching Clown – Self Refinement as An Artist

Teaching Clown – An Enormous Problem – Illumination & Solution – For The Love of Clown

CLOWN CODE – Part 3 – CLOWN THINKING

CLOWN CODE© PART 2

CLOWN CODE AND ITS PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES –  an I.S.A.A.C. concept (Part 1)

The Structure of QUANTUM THEATRE: SLAPSTICK TO SHAKESPEARE from PhD Thesis

Clown Cults vs the Cult of the Dalai Lama’s Oracle

Push-ups For Clowns

Artistic Hearts – Secrets in my Method

What Does A Clown Know… part 4 of 4 – Space-Time Continuum

What Does A Clown Know… part 3 of 4 – Time

What Does A Clown Know – part 2 of 4 – Space

What Does A Clown Know?… reflections on creativity, culture and wellbeing – part 1 of 4 – Body

On Teaching: Acting and Clown.

“Shakespeareitis” – or, something’s rotten in the state of English language productions of Shakespeare’s plays

How The Authentic Lineage of Clown Works

CLOWN: AUTHENTIC? or APPROPRIATED?

Healing the Theatre and Clown Training?

Vaudeville: Patter; Shtik; Double Talk

Multicultural Theatre. Multiculturalism.

Show Biz, The Art of Variety

Diversity Is Normal

Consulting Elders

The Universal Mind and Non-Clown Clowns

Collaboration – “The Quantum Point”

Teaching Is Learning

Beyond The Norm in Clown Training

Snipets. Prelude to Clown Secret book.

Lecoq – Complements and Criticism

“Shakespeare’s Clowns” workshop with Ira Seidenstein

Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method

The Seidenstein Method

Training Actors, Clowns, Directors – What works, how and when?

Actor/Clown Artists

ALL articles

BLOG of 100 BLOGS: INCL EACH LINK – I.S.A.A.C.

The Laconic Non-Clown Clown Brilliant Artist

Sketch of Return – duologue – 10 minutes

Artist in Exile… a play about The Other

Thoughts on Luzia – Cirque du Soleil. By Jim Pickles

Two Extremely Educated (and even intelligent) Non-Clown Clown Rabbis

Some Truths in Researching – REMNANTS: ENCOUNTERS WITH MY CULTURE.

The Structure of QUANTUM THEATRE: SLAPSTICK TO SHAKESPEARE from PhD Thesis

WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY

Many Great Screen Clowns NEEDED Writers and Directors.

Theatre As Religion

98 YR OLD CLOWNS AND THE QUARTET SECRET

The Joy of Teaching Clown… and the paradoxes.

Is a Tomboy a Clown or a Non-Clown Clown – Clara Bow is Such a Creature(s).

Another Matriarch of Clown – Ann Miller

Chaplin – some rare yet public bits

Homage to the Clown Barry Humphries

Ira Seidenstein Blog Titles and links – I.S.A.A.C.

The Grand-Mother of Contemporary Clown

CLOWN TROUPES: A TROPE ON CREATIVITY

SACRED DANCE

The More the Merrier. Mr Most Merryful.

57 Female Clown Short Films

Non-Clown Clown Lady

Artistic Soul Mates

Supreme Clown

The Most Elegant Clown

Awful Clowns Are Wonderful

One Clown Who I Forgot… until today!

The Legendary George Carl and Another Funny Meeting

Absolute Clowning: Preston Sturges

Non-Clown Clowns

Einstein and The Radical Clown

The Incredible Clown – Sid Caesar

Post-Pandemic Comedy of 1922 about Doctors/Medicine

Ponydance: Clown? Dance? Or beyond?

Synchronistic Shakespeare

Four Cultural Hugs

Dame Cecily Courtneidge – female comic acrobat, comedienne. One of Australia’s ‘first’ female ‘clowns’

Carlo’s Revenge – Project “Commedia Toto”

Ira’s Background with Shakespeare

3 Shakespeare Roles in BSC

Meetings With Remarkable Clowns

Teachers & Mentors

…More Remarkable Clowns

A Life in Acting and Clown

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