This week Lana and Woodrow sit down with the world renowned clown, mime, and generally cool guy Dean Evans for our first ever interview!

Clowns; you mean them guys with the crazy hair and the big shoes? No (you fool, you oaf) we mean a different, much cooler thing. Something that's both a style of performance and an archetype that exists in almost every world culture.

What do you talk about with a clown? Here's a search engine tailored list of what we did:

Where did clowns come from? What is the history of clowning? What is the clown's relationship to language?

Why do clowns exist? What is the function of the clown?

Ancient Chinese clowns (Lana said that one clown's name wrong so you'll just have to google it)

Paradox of the clown

Principles of clowning

Masks and concealing identity

Radical honesty

Presence

Bouffon

Native American clowns, clown society

Jester

Status, hierarchy

And of course Jacques Lecoq

If you want more of Dean, check out his immersive clown group Slow Dance in LA or check out the Bouffon troop he directs: Mil Grus. www.milgrus.com

Theme song by Sun Kin https://spoti.fi/33m0C83

Sound mixing by Olaf Woldan

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