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What is clown? The clown takes our hands and bravely leads us into the scary, mysterious forest of the unexplored or forgotten imagination, leading us safely (we hope) into the light.

The spirit of the clown is our point of departure, infused in all that we do, though not all our shows are purely clown shows. We use the playful abandon of the clown as momentum to thrust the performer into the rehearsal room or onto the stage.

This work gives the performer greater access to his dreams, impulses, and humor, thereby freeing possibilities for poetic, highly theatrical and potentially bizarre worlds to emerge.

The clown touches something very new, very deep and yet very familiar in us all, acknowledging in both performer and audience the need for a good cry, a great laugh, a profound sigh, or a triumphant yawp.

I believe that the clown is essentially the un-socialized self in all of its messy and playful beauty. In my mind, the discovery of the clown is a discovery of self.

- Christoper Bayes