Academic Panoramic: Follow the nose

UI theatre students shed inhibitions as they step into the world of clown

To learn more about the challenging introspective process of becoming a clown, watch this video by Taylor Edelle Stuart, a UI cinema and theatre arts double major.

Academic Panoramic: Clown

Clown class in a circle around professor Paul Kalina

Professor Paul Kalina at the center of a circle of theatre students.

Colorfully dressed theatre students dance as Paul Kalina, dressed in black, observes.

Theatre student in a bright blouse wearing a red clown's nose dances.

Student dressed colorfully and wearing a bright red nose laughs.

Professor Paul Kalina laughs at two students presenting a mimed clown skit.

By: Taylor Edelle Stuart | 2015.11.11 | 11:54 am

“Follow the nose,” Professor Paul Kalina says to advanced undergraduate acting students in the course Movement Styles: Clown (THTR:3160), which offers insight into and experience in the art of clowning.

Easier said than done, this process takes students on a unique journey that involves diligence, introspection, and failure in order to uncover their own clown personas. Students were surprised to find that this course is not “all laughs”; sometimes the process of fighting inhibitions and discovering what will engage an audience is excruciatingly frustrating.

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