<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; display: block; line-height: normal; "><span>Bonjour France,</span></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_48" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_55" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395088291774_9946" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Depending on how broadly you define clown, my first recommendation for a video is Bill Irwin's 1980s show, </span><i>The Regard of Flight</i>. It is available on youtube here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVifTdjtvE" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: text !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVifTdjtvE</a></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_55 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_69" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_55 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_70"
style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395088291774_10127" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; ">You can also see his collection of short routines, <i>The Clown Bagatelles</i>, here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94r249gfA90" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: text !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94r249gfA90</a></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_55 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_70" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_55 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_70 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_81" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top:
0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395088291774_10528" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; ">Also, brilliant clown work by Larry Griswold here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T89HO_qIMyo" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;
outline-color: initial; cursor: text !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T89HO_qIMyo</a></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display:
block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395088291774_10665" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; ">As for a person to contact, the top of my list would be John Towsen, author of the book <i>Clowns</i>. His blog, which has an archive brimming with valuable material, is called "All Fall Down: The Craft and Art of Physical Comedy." You can find it here: </span><a href="http://physicalcomedy.blogspot.ca/" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue; outline-style: none;
outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: text !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">http://physicalcomedy.blogspot.ca/</a></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_106" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_108" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;
margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; ">Bonne chance!<br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_112" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_113" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top:
0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Will Weigler</div><div class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_63 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_93 yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395088291774_117" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; display: block; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.willweigler.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: text !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">www.willweigler.com</a></div><div></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block; "> <br> <br> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, March 17, 2014 11:24:32 AM, *France Huot * <huotfr@GMAIL.COM> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Bonjour, <br><br>Je suis candidate à
la maîtrise à l'Université d'Ottawa et mon sujet de thèse porte sur les spectacles de clown au théâtre. En ce moment, je suis à la recherche de titres et de captations de spectacles. Si vous avez des pistes ou des suggestions, ce serait très apprécié!<br><br>I'm a masters student at University of Ottawa. My thesis topic is based on clown shows. If anyone has any suggestions as to particular shows, videos or people to contact, it would be very much appreciated. <br><br>Merci!<br>France Huot<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>