My two most recent posts were about Community Process and Performance as Protest. Both touch on a performance form that to me, is the most sacred and most profane, most accessible and most sublime, clowning. As some of you may know, my master's thesis was called "The Search for Indigenous Clown Forms in Afghanistan" (of course it was), stimulated in part by participation in a humanitarian mission to Afghanistan in February of 2002 with the Italian military, an Italian film crew and approximately two dozen clowns, mostly Italian. My passion for Silk Roads clowns continues unabated, and lately, people have been asking me more about them.
