This started as a one-year grant (2005-2006) from the Watson Foundation: "Contemporary Clown Circuit; Performance Across Borders" was the name of my project. The blog posts are email updates from my watson year and beyond.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Performing in Addis Ababa
My favorite shows are the ones with the WWO schools. We have already met the kids briefly, and then after the show, over the course of the week we build a stronger relationship with the school community, teaching the kids who live at the orphanage, some of the guardians of the other kids, and the staff from the WWO staff:
Our two shows on Wednesday are great fun too. The first one was supposed to be for a primary school of 500 kids but the principal invited the high school and 3 neighboring schools without telling us! An audience of about 2,000:
And in the afternoon a show for a primary school of 1,825 kids:
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