• So here is a short running order of what I plan to do. Some things are experimental and may not be in the final piece.

    Opening video – filmed in first person, this video will show how a clown starts his day […]

  • Here we have a selection of videos taken from the world famous Cirque du Soleil.

    The clips feature a clown routine by the clown, Jesko in Saltimbanco show.

    I want to use these as […]

  • The performance will begin with a video introducing the life of a clown. It will be shot entirely in the first person. The performance will then appear on stage with myself dressed as a clown and riding a u […]

  • Here are a few videos that I found that I am using as inspiration.

    The first clip is from the film ‘Clown’ and is about a man who puts on a clown costume and can never take it off. He slowly becomes the clown […]

  • Primary School
     

    Although, as my mother puts it, I was a little terror when I was a child, always messing about, playing pranks and being funny, I did not really blossom into my clowning personality until I […]

  • Jacob Allan Pearce wrote a new post, Welcome!, on the site Clown! 1 month, 4 weeks ago

    My name is Jake Pearce and this is my Solo Performance blog. The performance I am working on is all about how, throughout my life, I have been the ‘class clown’ and used humor as a defense mechanism and as a tool […]

  • 09145426 wrote a new blog post: So that went well! 5 months ago

    After a long and somewhat mentally painful few weeks we have finally finished our assessment. The show, which lasted 3.5 hours in case you missed it, went really well. I am pleased and proud of my group and I feel that they all did a wonderful job. For the first hour we worked with material that we [...]