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Performance, Walkabouts, Workshops and Parties.
Original music, improvisational clown skits, interactive games and sing-along. |
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My Job is “Clown” By jj Waffles The clown arouses emotion, we delight in the antics that poke fun at all the established rules. We laugh, we cry, and we are grateful for being moved into a timeless moment where what we are feeling matters most. The clown shocks us with a rude mimicry of our sacred values and despite our disapproval we laugh. The clown is a funny fellow, distinct, vivid, and unforgettable. The clown stands forth as an immensely potent archetype of human feeling. The clown appears in one form or another in nearly all cultures. As fool, jester, or trickster---the clown encompasses far more than a funny costume and painted face. The clown represents a vision of the world that we all highly value, a sense of the comic. The stupidity we laugh at in the clown reflects our own potential foolishness, the clown’s antics although exaggerated, express the recognition of folly as an unavoidable part of life. “If every fool wore a crown” an old proverb goes, “we would all be Kings”. The clown also represents the free spirit, the unconventional thinker whose example encourages others to view the world in new and extraordinary ways. The clown represents the rebel in us all who would oppose the system, break the rules, violate the taboos and strike out for freedom from repression. The clown parodies the stated norms and values of society, their ridiculous side, their pretension to certainty. The clown shows the absurdity of patriotism that breeds war or ambition that motivates presidents. The clown mocks our hope for orderly systems of thought and dependable sequences of logic when we take them as ultimate values. Most cultures recognize the value of the clown’s perceptions seeing them as a duality between the inspired madman and spiritual prophet. …And finally, the clown enacts acceptance of the human condition, all of it, the absurdity, the grotesqueness, the suffering, and the tragedy. The clown’s acceptance is open hearted, stepping out of the ordinary sequence of events and into the transitional space of illusion……a sacred place where the heart speaks without words of the goodness and abundance of life….and as we accept the clown’s way….the folly of our human ways....we accept our humanness and open to the mystery of ‘being’ and to the ‘spirit’ that lies within us all. “Waffles” performs for parties, schools, libraries, museums, community groups and festivals throughout New England and in 1983 was honored by the Massachusetts House of Representatives for “uplifting the spirits of the citizenry”. Home Page |
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