How Do You Become A Professional Clown?
If performing magic, juggling, making balloon animals, dressing up in an outlandish costume, wearing a large red nose, and above all else, making people laugh and bringing them joy sounds like a great job description, then consider becoming a professional clown.It can be a challenging, but rewarding occupation. Follow these steps to your new career. Step 1 Investigate the world of professional clowns by reading books, exploring Web sites, and spending time with a professional clown in your area. Step 2 Go to a clown school. Initial training is also possible by attending workshops and conferences. Step 3 Find a clown mentor and serve an apprenticeship. Step 4 Develop your clown’s character. This includes makeup, costume, the characters personality as well as associated skills like magic, balloon animals, juggling and comic routines. Step 5 Decide where and how you want to work and plan your business accordingly. Clowns can specialize in birthday parties, story telling, adult parties and
When you were a child you were often brought to the circus and laughed so hard at the clowns that you probably developed a desire to grow and be one professionally. If this is the career path you would like to take then it would take a lot of hard work to be a professional clown. • Skills a professional clown should have. It takes a lot of creativity to be a clown and not everyone has enough of it to draw laughter from the audience. Although clowns wear silly costumes and will draw attention right away it takes great skill to play on the spectator’s imagination to draw the most laughs. A clown has to be passionate about entertaining in general be it one person or a large audience. Lots of energy is essential if you want to be a clown because it takes a lot of physical and mental energy to clown around. • Enroll at clown schools and workshops. Search for clown schools in your area and workshops you can attend. If you can’t find one in your immediate area then you can try to find them on
