The childrens' clown based their performance for a childrens' audience, looking to entertain them. The Art-Theatre clown based their performance for a mature audience that can understand the situations that are presented: reacting and giving appropiate feed back. Children are welcome at these performances yet the subtletlies of the message at times could be beyond their understanding.
Many people have still not seen any Art-theatre Clown performances, that is why the difference between that and the traditional clown is not always easy to understand.
Let us just say Clown from now on -understanding that the term is refering to the Art-Theatre one-.
A theatre clown performance is a play with a clown twisted perspective. It has a begining, a development -conflicts,etc- and an end: full of ups and downs, failures, love, sweetness, innocence, pranks and complicity.
Communication is so important for the clown that it can be said that without it a clown has no blood to pump his heart. Honesty, transparency and the ability to live any feeling 100% is what makes this communication possible. Then, the clown is one with the audience and the audience has became part of the clown's heart.
Clown's objective is simple. They want to touch peoples' lives, minds and hearts. They want to love, be loved and then share magic's moments for open eyes. Magic moments full of feelings, real truth and ourselves.
