In this thesis, I explore the June 1946 issue of Dance Index: Joseph Cornell’s “Clowns, Elephants and Ballerinas.” Through the archive of materials collected and presented by Cornell, I attempt to understand the histories of performance offered to the magazine’s readers. Despite the rich field of scholarship dedicated to Cornell and his art, very little work has been dedicated to his contributions to Dance Index. I interpret “Clowns, Elephants and Ballerinas” as both a collage and a series of histories, and I present the magazine as a serious work in Cornell’s oeuvre. I also endeavor to provide an understanding of Cornell’s working method, his sense of history, and the ways his juxtapositions of word and image provide meaning to readers. Weaving together the visual and textual, contemporary and historical, Cornell explores performance legacies, American and European exchange, and pantomime, dance, and circus performance tradition through this magazine issue. Cornell uses each of his diverse materials to explore larger social and political issues as well as artistic traditions. “Clowns, Elephants and Ballerinas” represents a crystallization of a moment in one of his many “explorations.” / text

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-01-27T13:39:15Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Arlene de Sousa Barcelos Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 1165142 bytes, checksum: 76892ab70b2cd4ea4bff530400661aeb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-01-28T11:17:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Arlene de Sousa Barcelos Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 1165142 bytes, checksum: 76892ab70b2cd4ea4bff530400661aeb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-28T11:17:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Arlene de Sousa Barcelos Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 1165142 bytes, checksum: 76892ab70b2cd4ea4bff530400661aeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-31 / “Pronto Sorriso” is an open core course of the medical school at Federal University of Goias, with the mission of holistic training of academics through entertainment and performing arts, prompting the creation of the hospital clown, and other recreational activities. Objective: To analyze the influence of “Pronto Sorriso” as a tool for humanistic training of academic medicine in the hospital environment. Materials and Methods: A qualitative, exploratory, cross imprint study involving graduate students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Goias who participated in “Pronto Sorriso” in 2012/2013. Data were collected through recorded interviews, using a questionnaire as a tool and a roadmap for a semi-structured interview, which was conducted with the participants of the course and healthcare professionals of the university hospital, seeking to identify the perceived influence of “Pronto Sorriso” in academic training. To analyze results, Bardin’s content analysis technique was used. Results: The sample consisted of 30 participants, 20 being medical students, and ten health professionals in a pediatric unit of Hospital das Clinicas of UFG, who signed the consent form. The average age of students was 19 years, with a predominance of single and female. For healthcare professionals, the average age was 42 years and with over 10 years experience in the research institution. We chose to analyze the interviews in two separate groups: interviews of medical students and interviews with health professionals active in the pediatric unit of the teaching hospital. Conclusion: The study concludes that “Pronto Sorriso” is an instrument of humor providing humanistic training in medicine as well as transformation of the hospital, and provides knowledge and development of skills related to medical clowns. / O Pronto Sorriso é uma disciplina de núcleo livre do curso de medicina da Universidade Federal de Goiás, que tem como missão atuar na formação holística dos acadêmicos permeando o lúdico e as artes cênicas proporcionando a criação do palhaço de hospital e atividades lúdicas. Objetivo: Analisar a influência do Pronto Sorriso como instrumento de na formação humanística do acadêmico de medicina no ambiente hospitalar. Materiais e Métodos: Pesquisa qualitativa de cunho exploratório, transversal, com estudantes de graduação da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Goiás que participaram do Pronto Sorriso em 2012/2013. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas gravadas, usando como instrumento um questionário e um roteiro de entrevista semi-estruturada, que foi aplicado aos participantes da disciplina e aos profissionais de saúde do hospital escola, com conteúdo que buscava identificar a percepção da influencia do Pronto Sorriso na formação do acadêmico. Para análise dos resultados foi utilizada a técnica de analise de conteúdo de Bardin. Resultados: A amostra foi composta por trinta participantes sendo, vinte acadêmicos de medicina e dez profissionais das áreas de saúde da unidade pediátrica do Hospital das Clinicas da UFG, e que assinaram o TCLE. A média da faixa etária dos acadêmicos foi de 19 anos, com predominância dos solteiros e do sexo feminino. Quanto aos profissionais de saúde a idade média era de 42 anos e com mais de 10 anos de atuação na instituição da pesquisa. Optou-se por analisar as entrevistas separadas em dois grupos: entrevistas dos acadêmicos de medicina e entrevistas dos profissionais de saúde atuantes na unidade pediátrica do hospital escola. Conclusão: concluí-se que o Pronto Sorriso é um instrumento do humor na formação humanística do acadêmico de medicina bem como na transformação do ambiente hospitalar e propiciou conhecimentos e desenvolvimento de habilidades referentes à atuação dos doutores palhaços.

Playing role of Feste in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night presents a complex challenge to the actor. Feste is at once a character in the world of the play and a clown figure with specific dramatic functions having roots in the Lord of Misrule of the English holiday and the Vice of the morality play. How can the actor playing Feste create a believable psychological portrayal that is aligned with the functions Shakespeare assigns the role? And be entertaining as well? I suggest that actor will benefit greatly from an exploration the traditional function of the clown its development in society and literature before Shakespeare, and how Shakespeare’s use of the clown developed, culminating in the writing of Twelfth Night. The actor will thereby have a better understanding of what Shakespeare might by trying to achieve with Feste,, and he (or she) may better find the motivations for Feste’s sometimes-enigmatic words and actions, which will, in turn, give shape and purpose to the clowning. I put this thesis to the test in preparing for and playing the role of Feste in Theater Ten Ten’s production of Twelfth Night in the spring of 2010 in New York City. My research and preparation will include: a substantial immersion in much of Shakespeare’s cannon, and viewing of performances of it (mainly on video); research on the role of the clown, how it developed through history until Shakespeare’s time, and how Shakespeare appropriated and developed that tradition, culminating in Feste; a performance history of the role; a structural analysis of Feste’s role in Twelfth Night; a character study of Feste; a rehearsal and performance journal documenting my ongoing iv exploration, challenges and choices. The main challenge, as I foresee it, is to arrive at my own unique performance of Feste while fulfilling both my director’s vision and Shakespeare’s intention.

Hösten 2016 uppkom ett fenomen som blev omtalat i svenska morgontidningar, den så kallade “clownhysterin”. Fenomen sattes snabbt på agendan och handlade om clowner som hade attackerat människor. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka som får synas i artiklarna och hur de representeras. Artiklarna kommer att inhämtas från de två största kvälls- och morgontidningar i Sverige, Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter. Studien använder sig av teorin om medielogiken där begreppen tillspetsning, förenkling, polarisering, intensifiering, personifiering, konkretion och stereotypisering använts. En kvalitativ textanalys kommer att vara studiens metod. Resultaten som tagits fram visar på att vittnen, clowner och utsatta är underrepresenterade i artiklarna. Poliser och högre uppsatta syns till en större grad. Clownerna representeras som de onda och skräckinjagande medan poliser framställs som tillförlitliga och sakliga. / In the fall of 2016 the words “creepy clown hysteria” or “clown attacks” became regular to the Swedish daily press. The phenomenon of clowns attacking people and scaring people became media's head priority during approximately two weeks. The focus of this thesis is to establish who gets to talk in the articles and how these people are represented. The articles are found in the biggest night and morning newspapers, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The theory for this thesis is called media logics and includes seven directions, these are; sharpening, simplification, polarization, intensification, personification, concreteness and stereotyping. A qualitative text analysis is used as method for this thesis regarding text. The results of the thesis are that there is an underrepresentation of witnesses, clowns and victims in the texts and an overrepresentation of people with authority like polices. The clowns are represented as evil and horrifying while the polices are shown as trustworthy and honest people.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-03T13:32:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Elizabete Araujo da Silva.pdf: 800834 bytes, checksum: f73600468106a9a529c7d93d6a6bbdad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-03T13:32:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elizabete Araujo da Silva.pdf: 800834 bytes, checksum: f73600468106a9a529c7d93d6a6bbdad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-20 / This work aims at investigating how the plot of the play Palhaços, by Timonchenco Wehbi, can be connected to the basic elements of what Peter Brook has called Rough Theatre: a kind of theatre that, beyond merely proposing the centrality of human actions, brings up at its core the search for a critical positioning of artists and public alike. In order to conduct such an endeavour, we will start by reading and analyzing Palhaços to demonstrate how the reflection of artistic procedures is capable of critically influencing both artists and public, and is intrinsic to Wehbi’s dramaturgical architecture. Thus, it would be possible to compare the latter with the ideas about theatre that Peter Brook puts forth in his work The empty space. Finally, we intend to bring light to the fact that the theatre of provocation and contestation (i.e., the rough) is indeed an aesthetic and thematic project of Wehbi's, which we can access through the conversation between an artist, a clown called Careta, and a man from the public, a shoe seller called Benvindo, both of whom are characters in Palhaços / O presente trabalho propõe investigar como o enredo do texto dramatúrgico Palhaços, de Timonchenco Wehbi, pode estar ancorado nos preceitos daquilo que Peter Brook nomeou de Teatro Bruto. Um teatro que, além de se ocupar fundamentalmente das ações humanas, traz em sua essência a busca de um posicionamento crítico do artista e seu público. Para tanto, partiremos da leitura e análise de Palhaços para demonstrar como na peça a reflexão do fazer artístico é intrínseca à arquitetura dramatúrgica proposta por Wehbi e, sendo assim, possível de a aproximarmos das reflexões sobre o teatro que Peter Brook faz em sua obra O espaço vazio. Pretendemos, por fim, evidenciar como o teatro da provocação e da contestação, portanto, o bruto, acaba por ser um projeto estético e temático de Wehbi, ao qual teremos acesso por meio da conversa entre um artista, o palhaço Careta, e um homem vindo do público, o vendedor de sapatos Benvindo, personagens do texto dramatúrgico Palhaços

Among the various studies written on the voluminous artistic production relating to the clownish figure in the XIXth century, more specifically on its melancholic form in the second half of the century, very few have carried interest to the novel. The objective of this master's thesis is to study the clown as a novel character, through Gavroche (Victor Hugo, Les Miserables ), Kenwell and Cox (Jules Claretie, Le Train 17) and the brothers Zemganno (Edmond de Goncourt, Les Freres Zemganno ). We will focus on the way those hyperbolic figures spread out their marginality, their laughter and their illusions within the novel, thus providing information on this one. Our analysis of the clown's passage through the novel, which always deploys in three phases (the marginal entrance, the ascension and the fall), demonstrates the incompatibility between the realistic material from the XIXth century and this nevertheless infinitely novelistic being.

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Orientador: Neyde de Castro Veneziano Monteiro / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T12:07:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carrico_Andre_D.pdf: 1783260 bytes, checksum: c9a5a18ffa00d8e2a3758ff220df8120 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O principal objetivo da tese Os Trapalhões no Reino da Academia: Revista, Rádio e Circo na poética trapalhônica é analisar as raízes da formação do ator cômico brasileiro a partir de três tradições da cena nacional, presentes na poética do grupo cômico Os Trapalhões: o Teatro de Revista (Mussum), o Humorismo Radiofônico (Zacarias) e o Circo (Dedé e Didi). Para isso, localizamos os elementos dessas vertentes nos personagens-tipo desse grupo por meio do registro cênico em sua obra cinematográfica e televisiva. O projeto trapalhônico nos permitiu apontar a permanência de procedimentos universais de tradição popular, aportados pela formação desses cômicos, e a clareza na transmissão de princípios cênicos de artistas que os antecederam. Alicerçados por esses saberes, Os Trapalhões naturalizaram a figura do palhaço e souberam conjugar as potencialidades individuais de cada integrante do grupo, misturando e atualizando códigos e configurando uma poética reveladora da vitalidade de nossas escolas cômicas / Abstract: The main objective of the thesis The Trapalhões in the Academy Kingdom: Revue, Radio and Circus in trickster poetic is to analyze the roots of the education of Brazilian comic actors from three traditions of the national scene in the poetics of the comedy group The Trapalhões: Revue (Mussum), Radio Comedy (Zacarias) and Circus (Dedé and Didi). To this end, we have located the elements of these characters in the scenic register of their work in Cinema and TV. The project of The Trapalhões allowed us to show the permanence of universal procedures of the popular tradition, wich were brought from the origin of these comics, and the clarity in conveying the scenic principles from artists who preceded them. Substantiated by those knowledge, The Trapalhões have naturalized the figure of the clown and have combined the individual strengths of each member of the group, mixing and updating codes and configuring a poetic telling of our comic schools / Doutorado / Artes Cenicas / Doutor em Artes

Cette thèse porte sur les bouffons rituels (kɔrɔdugaw) de la région de Ségou au Mali, elle analyse d’une part leur place dans la société malienne, d’autre part les procédés qui leur permettent d’élaborer cette forme bouffonne reconnaissable quelle que soit l'aire culturelle considérée. Caractérisée par un type de comportement à première vue contraire aux conduites sociales ordinaires, la figure du bouffon captive l’attention par des intrusions à la fois ludiques et subversives dans la vie quotidienne comme dans les cérémonies. Qualifié au Mali de « sans honte », ce type de comportement bouffon soulève plusieurs questions concernant ses mécanismes, son efficacité, l’équilibre entre norme et transgression, ou encore le positionnement dans la structure sociale d’une catégorie qui transcende à première vue tous les cadres.Pour y répondre, la bouffonnerie est appréhendée ici à partir des acteurs et de la description minutieuse de leurs interventions, de manière à explorer la manière décalée dont ils investissent la société. Les activités des bouffons sont tout d’abord mises en regard avec celles d’autres intervenants cérémoniels, comme les griots, les chasseurs et les forgerons avec qui ils partagent certains attributs, producteurs de musiques et de danses, gens de savoir, contre-sorcier ou encore agents suscitant des dons. En second lieu, la focale est mise sur la forme bouffonne par l’étude des situations forgées, des procédés récurrents mobilisés, et de leurs usages dans des contextes cérémoniels particuliers. Enfin, la morphogenèse de la catégorie sociale kɔrɔdugaw est analysée de même que la manière dont elle se positionne dans la structure sociale. Il se dégage de l’analyse un mode de présence complexe et processuel à la frontière entre l’individu et la société, par lequel émerge un pouvoir-faire adapté aux différents rôles sociaux qui leurs sont attribués. / This research is about the ritual clowns (kɔrɔdugaw) of the region of Segou, in Mali. It analyses both their place in the Malian society and the processes that allow them to develop this recognizable clowning form observed in every cultural areas. The figure of the ritual clown is characterized by a type of behaviour that seems in opposition to the ordinary social conducts. Both playful and subversive, it’s intrusion in everyday life or in ceremonies captivates the attention of all participants. This behaviour, qualified in Mali as "shameless", raises several questions concerning its mechanisms, its efficiency, the balance between standards and transgressions, or the positioning in the social order of such a category which, at first sight, transcends all the frames. To explore the unconventional way ritual clowns invest the society, the analysis rely on the meticulous description of these social actor’s interventions. Firstly, the activities of the clowns are compared with those of other ceremonial participants, such as the griots, the hunters and the blacksmiths, people with whom they share certain attributes as producers of music and dance, people of knowledge, agents against witchcraft, agents generating ritual gifts. Secondly, the focus is put on the clowning form through the study of the situations they create, their recurring processes, and their uses within particular ceremonial contexts. Finally, the morphogenesis of the social category kɔrɔdugaw is analysed as well as the way it positions itself within the broader social structure. Ritual clowning appears from the analysis as a complex and processual mode of presence that is on the border between the individual and the community, by which emerges a capacity to act, adapted to the various social roles it endorses.

The number of displaced people around the world today is unprecedented in world history, with a third of those displaced below the age of 18. These children often undergo traumatic experiences which can cause serious mental health issues before and during their flight as well as afterwards when resettling in a new country. In Sweden, they are offered psychological aid in order to better deal with these issues and hence recover. However, due to the cultural stigma attached to mental health problems, psychosocial aid is often ruled out by the child themselves. In addition, up to 30% of these unaccompanied children have been reported to suffer from PTSD, where merely speaking about one's issue can trigger a relapse of the trauma. There is therefore a shortage of pragmatic approaches to help tackle the challenges that these children faces. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how creative programs such as the organisation Clowns without Borders works with unaccompanied refugees and how their methods affect the wellbeing of these children. This thesis explores the effects that laughter and playing has on a child’s well-being using a qualitative field research approach. The research is a contribution to the field of development since it offers new grounds on how to work towards increasing the living standards of resettled displaced persons.