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Summary: Clowns perform at a variety of venues, including birthday parties, circuses, hospitals, and hotels. Learn where to perform as a clown in this free clowning video lesson.
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Paul Anderson Paul Anderson is a professional circus performer who has studied throughout Europe and the United States. He runs a circus school in Hollywood, Fla. He is a ... read more
On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Paul Anderson from the ABC Circus here in Hollywood Florida and we're going to do, How to be a clown! Where do you start? What's the first place you perform? I first started when a neighbor asked to me if I could perform at their child's birthday party. Well, birthday parties are a great way to start. It's no pressure. It's a couple kids from the neighborhoods and you get to do some silly stuff for the kids. It's a great place to try out material. But there are a lot of different venues. The library is always a good venue. Of course, every hotel has a ballroom and every ballroom has as many parties as they can book. And every time they do a circus or comedy theme they would be looking for clowns, so, there's a lot of different venues. Of course if you are really good you could play Broadway. I played fifth and Broadway just down the street the other day. Of course, it was just a birthday party, but birthday parties are a constant source of income, and it's not so bad, or, even you could perform at a hospital.