500 Clown
Residency and Performance
August-December, 2008
500 Clown and the Elephant Deal
Click here for performance details500 Clown Is...
500 Clown uses circus arts, improvisation, and action-based performance to produce theater that catapults the performers into extreme physical and emotional risk. Audiences become active observers, creating a charged environment celebrating the unpredictable power of the moment. read more"Life is worth the risk"
500 Clown and the Elephant Deal: The Risk of Not KnowingBy Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Director
We are 500 Clown. We began in 2000 with the show 500 Clown Macbeth. When audiences kept returning, and when the four of us (Molly Brennan, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Adrian Danzig and Paul Kalina) realized this was the kind of collaboration you don't easily walk away from... read more
Expansion
As part of the residency during which 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal took shape, the company auditioned current and former Maryland students, who worked alongside the rest of the cast in creating and developing the work. read moreExperimentation and Collaboration
The process of creating a new work requires a level of comfort and trust among the collaborators. read moreEvolution
In 500 Clown's creative process, source materials provide a spark of inspiration that may not be overtly evident in the performance. Although the company originally thought they would do a version of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man, the new work took on a life of its own, inspired by—but not derivative of—Brecht's work. read more
