A Clown Workshop

This workshop called “Why Stop The Music” explores musical possibilities in clown play, how the music of clown play affects us in your clown routines. We move with a sense of timing, weight, and direction. This movement affects how we interact with the world, interact with each other, and how others see us. These elements help us understand how our audience sees, hears, and feels our clown characters. 

This workshop was developed after years of partnering with clowns in medical environments. During that experience, I learned aspects of music that affect clown play. The participants leave with a heightened sense of musicality in their clown work and a vocabulary to describe that musicality. 

Over the past 30 years, Meredith has trained and worked as an actor, clown, and circus artist. In 2020, he celebrated his twenty-year of medical clowning. In 2000 Meredith became a medical clown with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit and later served as the Atlanta Clown Care Unit supervisor from 2012 to 2016. He is a founding member of Humorology Atlanta, which continues the tradition of medical clowning. He began working in social circus as a coach with Cirque du Monde in 2001 and continues his work as a circus educator with So Cirque. He is a 2019 recipient of the Tanne Award, which recognizes outstanding achievements by artists. 

Meredith taught "Why Stop The Music."? online with Clown Gym and at The Clown School. 

In the spring of 2022, he will present the workshop at The North American Federation of Healthcare Clown Organizations Conference and the Healthcare Clowning International Meeting at The Hague in the Netherlands. 

Photos from the University of North Georgia workshop

Photo from the Clown School Workshops

Photo from the Clown Gym Workshops