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Todd Phillips’s 2019 movie 'Joker' reconfigures and actualizes body aesthetics and performance traditions—eccentric movements and so-called 'epileptic dancing'—celebrated around 1900 on the popular stage and in early film. This body... more
Examples taken from the short silent films of Charles Chaplin, specifically the two-reelers he made for Mutual Films in 1916 and 1917, will suggest that slapstick can be usefully understood as a quasi-ritualized and socially-sanctioned... more
The cultural history of the "white clown" Pierrot From the Pedrolino developed in France first the Pierrotto, then 1665 the Pierrot, which led a shadow existence first in the midst of the shimmering universe of the different characters.... more
Dentro de las características que puede tener el oficio del clown existe una que parece ser inherente a los sujetos que deciden dedicarse a este tipo de actividad lúdica: la tristeza. Preguntarse acerca de las percepciones que se tienen... more
Article publié dans les Actes du colloque international Le rire du pauvre, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 21-23 novembre 2013. Y est abordé la question de la récupération des figures traditionnelles du divertissement... more
Review of 2016 publication for Theaterforschung.de
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Una reflexión sobre la enseñanza del clown en las escuelas de teatro.
Por Hernán Gené
Por Hernán Gené
Este estudo busca perceber a importância da inserção artística e pedagógica no ambiente hospitalar a partir dos projetos: Doutores da Alegria e Cinema no Hospital? A proposta é analisar como, dentro da complexidade do ambiente hospitalar,... more
El texto aquí presente se plantea con el objetivo de dar respuesta a la pregunta ¿Cómo reivindicar derechos humanos a través del arte del clown? En primer lugar hemos realizado una identificación de la función social del payaso y su... more
La acción socioeducativa y el arte clown necesitan de una plataforma que permita un desarrollo conjunto. Este texto plantea las bases para crear una formación y una Escuela que permita formar profesionales especialistas en clown... more
This chapter considers the circus, in all its exquisite horror and repulsive intrigue, as an ideal heterotopia, the cinematic representations of which offer us titillating—indeed, necessary—semi-fantastic zones for subjective and cultural... more
Although nonbinary sex/gender has seen some attention in recent years in academia and popular culture, it is mostly seen through the lens of modernity, which views trans as a straight movement from one "gender identity" to another. This... more
It is not an easy task to understand the nature of carnival as it is shown by the many failures of the last century after Mikhail Bakhtin’s work became generally known. My book is an attempt to define carnival in relation to another... more
El fenómeno clown nos permite ver parte significativa de la importancia que el juego tiene en la vida social de los grupos populares, específicamente como una figura oblicua cuyo poder permite ejercer una reflexividad en torno a los... more
The riddle is one of the least studied genres of oral literature and with this book I bring to your desk a recording of riddle act with active audiences. By focusing on the performer of the riddle, this study departs from earlier studies... more
El quinto capítulo (Entre narices rojas: Antropología fracasada del humor y la risa) es producto de una estancia en el terreno de cuatro meses de duración, entre enero y mayo de 2010, en la ciudad francesa de Burdeos. Mi trabajo de campo... more
Besides the doltishly clumsy, amusingly simple and happily idiotic type of clown, there is the evil violent clown. Violent clowns can be traced back to the (circus-)pantomimes of the nineteenth century, to circus tradition and circus... more
¿De qué se habla cuando se dice comedia física? Comedia física, o comedia visual, es la técnica para actores y actrices depurada de payasos y comediantes de todos los tiempos y tradiciones. En esta técnica de exploración cada ejercicio... more
The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet is a play written as a postwar and post-colonial satire in 1958. The play discusses ideas such as race, the black and white binary, racial prejudice and stereotypes as well as the reification of... more
This chapter looks at the role of music in Twelfth Night, exploring the dose of melancholy it often adds to the play’s festivity. It investigates the three different forms in which music is employed in the play: as song, which combines... more
A través de los caminos del clown recorreremos la lógica del juego en la cultura, o de la cultura entendida en tanto juego. En base a una aproximación etnográfica y experimental al mundo del circo y del clown, usaremos este texto para... more
The clown as a pragmatic doer. A clown is what a clown does. Principles of practice defining the art of clowning. A Heideggerean approach to the clown. Missfitness as an ontological condition and the clown as its quintessential... more
Tra bombette e giochi onomastici, tutto in Beckett richiama la clownerie.
My Practice-as-Research MFA Thesis explores the intersection of the theatrical styles known as Clown and Melodrama through the collaborative creation of an original performative project entitled 'Visions of A Crying Girl', created and... more
The scholarship of Donna Haraway conducts a searing polemic against essentialist theorizing in feminist and gender studies by relying upon a novel methodology, which neither rejects the trappings of a culture addicted to technoscience,... more
No Kidding! Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theater examines the way clown was transformed into a serious character in twentieth-century theater. Modernist theater practitioners recognized that clown's approach to performance is... more
The chapter traces the imprints of the evil clown in Western popular cultural history. Taking the Joker from the Batman franchise, Alex from Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange, and Pennywise from Stephen King’s IT as significant... more
"Deleuze for beginners". Texte de présentation pour le colloque "Gilles Deleuze : virtuel, machines, lignes de fuite" à Cerisy-la-Salle, août 2015. Comme Diogène Laërce nous l’a appris, une anecdote de vie suffit pour condenser... more