The Clown Conservatory is a private performing arts school in San Francisco, CA. It is the only year-long professional circus and theatrical clown training program in America.
Beginning in 2000 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, to date 101 students have graduated from the program. Many of these graduates are now working professionally in circuses, theaters, and other performing companies around the world, including Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, The New Pickle Circus, Lunatique Fantastique, Circus Monti, Cirque Éloize and the Les 7 doigts de la main
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“For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there is all the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.”
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