Susah nak jadi clown ni. Tak percaya? Read these principles sent by Avner to me recently. The last principle is the toughest!
Clown Principles By Avner Eisenberg
1. Clown’s job is to make the audience feel things, and to get the audience to breathe.
1. Clown’s job is to make the audience feel things, and to get the audience to breathe.
2. Everyone inhales, but many of us need to be reminded to exhale.
3. The imagination and the brain are connected to and affect the body. Any change in the mind has a corresponding change in the body. Any change in the body (i.e. in the breath first) has a corresponding change in the mind.
4. Don’t tell or show the audience what to think, do, or feel.
5. Don’t tell or show your partners what to think, do, or feel. Don’t point.
6. Weight belongs on the underside. Keep a single point in you lower abdomen. Keep your energy flowing.
7. Tension is your enemy. It produces emotional, mental and physical numbness.
8. How you feel about your numero is what counts, not whether it is in reality good or bad.
9. The clown discovers an audience who are sitting in rows and looking at an empty space and waiting for a show. This must be dealt with first, by establishing complicity with the audience.
10. The clown creates a world in the empty space, rather than entering into a world that already exists (sketch).
11. Use mime to create fantasy, not to re-create reality.
12. The clown searches to create a game and to define the rules, which must be obeyed.
13. Don’t ask or tell the audience how they feel or think. Show them what you feel.
14. It is better to be interested than interesting.
15 You have to breathe all your life, even on stage.
16. The clown enters the stage to do a job, not to get laughs. If there are laughs, it is an interruption that must be dealt with.
12 comments:
You have no idea how Eisenberg's principles have helped me handle panic-stricken users whenever they have a problem. Working in the helpdesk/support of the IT Department, these guides are a God-send! Hehe.
hey my man,
hehe...pandaila ko!
p.s: I hope everything will go better on your side; whatever the outcomes might be . (actually i really want to tell you this since past few days)
Geee dr baddoot, Sounds like a full time job already. I don't have what you have to be a clown. You're a natural. ;)
Keep intouch!
hallo AKAK mobilemom,
Vem, a colleague of mine (who is also a trained indian classical dancer),remarked his amazement on how we (clowns!) could do things in such an improvise way.
I think the courage comes from the spirit of clown of living in the presence and not fearing what will happen in the near future.
wow. these guidelines sound so serious! how do you manage to make people laugh with guidelines as serious sounding as this? it must be a natural talent huh? but, I gotta say, I really admire what you do. keep it up! the world needs more people like you Doc!
wow wee.. i thought studying for a degree was tough enough..the guidelines are even tougher..
anedra & atiza: hehehe...alah macam dancinglah musti ada guidelines otherwise tak funnylah if our movement, acts and thinking are soo predictable.
sob sob, all my postings tak mo lekat lah kat sini? why oh why? Ni last attempt, hilang kalu, i bersara.
i read somewhere that to write soppy tear jerker songs or angry songs + lyrics are easy. But to write happy ones are so difficult it is not even funny!
Tu baru lagu, but to stand infront a crowd, honest crowd macam budak2 pulak tu and make them laugh and happy is NO JOKE.
You'll do well in US nanti. Sure score one!
And where is this GE Mall?
Yey!!!! Lekat pon! Your gam tak berapa kuat lah boss..
Nak try lagi (kemaruk!)
hehe...ood: true..it is easy to fantastically juggle 3 balls to the amazement of the audience. but for how long? sooner or later audience will get bored as your performance is very predictable.
that's why they need hundreds comedy writers to help jay leno or letterman to deliver the lines.
i am going to US with an open minds, to learn,to absorb and to explore.
GE Mall kat jalan ampang. stands for great eastern mall.
interesting bro. there are many similarities about being a comedianne and a clown.. i think clown is more towards stand-up comic, but even more difficult because you have one set of make-up and u must always remember that set of face you put on today. unlike other types which are more versatile... its very interesting.. i do miss theatre days ;)
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