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CLOWN – BUFFOON – MASKS

“Many circus men have lost the essential nature of the clown. This essence, in the way it is offered by the best traditional clowns, is found in the fundamental weakness of the human being, in the particularities that in a certain sense make each of us a “failure”. To find our clown we have to seek our essential weaknesses, recognize them, experiment them, show them and publicly make fun of them, and incidentally, make others laugh.”
Jacques Lecoq

“The raw material of theatre is not the actor, the space, the text, but rather the spectator’s attention, view or thoughts. Every spectator, even when unaware of it, perceives sometimes through great lenses, and others through the small ones of an imaginary binocular. He observes the overall from a distance, then he’s attracted to the detail.
It is a duty of all actors to be acquainted with the principles that they must put into practice in order to allow the dance of the senses and the mind of the spectator, and explore incessantly it’s practical possibilities. That’s what their job consists of. They will be the ones who decide later how and with what purposes that dance will be used. That’s what their ethics consist of.”
Eugenio Barba

 

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