Tony Clifton Circus

Clowns

French Tour 2011

"Chistmas Forever "

13 mai: Festival Tendances clown Marseille (13)

9, 10, 11 juin : Penhars en fête, Quimper (29)

18 et 19 juin : Festival la Rue est à Amiens
Amiens (80)

24, 25, 26 juin : Festival Viva Cité Sotteville-lès-Rouen (76)

2 et 3 juillet : Festival Renaissances
Bar le Duc (55)

5 juillet : Festival Les Chemins de l'Imaginaire
Terrasson (24)

7 juillet : La Cour des Miracles, Saint Marcel (71)

15, 16, 17 juillet : Festival les Vieilles Charrues
Carhaix (29)

2 et 3 aout : Festival la Plage des Six Pompes
La Chaux de Fond (Suisse)

6 et 7 aout :Les Z’estivales
le Havre

20 et 21 aout : Festival de Chassepierre (Belgique)

9 et 10 septembre : Cergy … soit !
Cergy

17 septembre : Les Effervescentes
Balaruc les Bains

"Rubbish Rabbit"

9 et 10 juillet : Festival les Affranchis
La Flèche (72)

19 au 23 juillet : Paleo Festival
Nyon – SUISSE

For dates in Italy, see www.tonycliftoncircus.com

"Hula Doll" (Theater) - "Rubbish Rabbit " (Street)

For years we have been making people laugh. To us this has always been the most beautiful thing that we could possibly do...
We entertained ourselves, the people were entertained, and not only, we were paid for it. Eventually, we didn't entertain ourselves anymore. Being a clown had become a profession, a job like any other. It became inevitable to ask ourselves... why do we continue?

Our frustration grew seeing that for the others, the organisers, the public, our colleagues, it all went splendidly. Everything great... the old tricks, the old magic, the old jokes, the same routines repeated thousands of times...
It is as if the public needs to be reassured, cuddled, distracted and prefers to see something already known, something that allows them to shut off their brain and zone out into a passive, dull roll.
In this age... this already exists. It is called television. If a person goes into the street and stops to watch a show or even purchase a ticket, maybe this would grant something more, something perhaps, different.
Furthermore, we believe, it is absurd to ask of a clown assurance. A clown is not a stuffed teddy bear... a clown is crazy, different, free. He is able to give, or rather sell, madness, diversity, and freedom.

This is our aim in Rubbish Rabbit, to be crazy, different, free.

In this anxiety for change, we have found, unconsciously, as exceptional models: children. They are crazy, different, free, at least until they are transformed into stressed out television dependent consumers.
And what do children do if they are left alone: chaos, noise, destruction.
Yes, this.... this is what we desire in our show: to be children... to do everything that comes to the mind without thinking why!!!
For this reason, in Rubbish Rabbit, we break for the most part nearly everything that passes through our hands, we shoot each other, we throw ourselves on the ground, we dance, we fight with our giant stuffed animals....simply because we enjoy it. To be sure, to see it in action will not be in anyway reassuring...