Archaic & Avant-Garde Clowning

Archaic Clowning/ Shamanism

• weird costumes
• music
• sleight of hand
• puppet/spirit helpers
• ventriloquism
• violates natural and cultural rules
• helps client/ audience deal with dis-ease
• uses suggestion and manipulation of cultural symbols

See also Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine
Linda Miller Van Blerkom

Download the pdf> Blerkom-Clown-Doctors-Shaman-healers-of-western-medicine

Avant-Garde Clowning

Laughter Yoga
Magnetic Mirror Therapy (Video & Audio Feedback)
Fuzzing Logic and Controlling Spin
Fractal Chain-Reaction, Exponential Novelty & the Plateau of Fun
Socio-linguistic ‘pataphysics	joke formulae reductio ad absurdum de gustibus non est disputandum