Mood: silly
Now Playing: Rio-Duran Duran
Topic: Send in the Clowns
The last couple of days have kind of blended themselves into each other and become a timeless and nebulous blob of memory.
The circus came to town in the form of one of my honey's old performing partners and his travel associate/troupemate. They are a part of a program called "Clowns Without Borders." Rudy is a Vaudevillian style physical performer. "Emma Del Emma" (say it quickly a couple of times)is a dancer and physical comedienne. I suspect within her is also a singer just waiting to find her voice. They went to Nepal and Tibet and traveled to orphanages and refugee camps to entertain children who really have no form of outside entertainment. Most of them are living under some very difficult circumstances. They were excited and jostled around trying to get as close as they could to the entertainers. The video is touching and heartfelt.
I would like to have the opportunity to leave that kind of impression on people through art.
Posted by mandalafly
at 8:27 PM PST
Updated: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:11 PM PST