Clowning reading material, resources and links

For clown geeks

Books

• The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre by Jacques Lecoq 

• Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq

• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

• Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters by Ezra Lebank and David Bridel

• Why is that so funny? A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy by John Wright

• Serious Clowning by Louise Peacock

• The Clown In You by Caroline Dream

• Discovering the Clown by Christopher Bayes

Films 

• I Clowns by Federico Fellini

• ​La Strada by Federico Fellini

TV

• Baskets starring Zach Galifianakis

Videos 

• Working in the Theatre: Clowning 

Schools

• École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq  

Organisations

• Clowns without Borders (Australian Chapter)