Finnish clownskills

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Clownskills can be quite extraordinary.  Another way to create astonishment in the audience is to do something very traditional activities.  Here below you can see examples of both of these alternatives.

In the year 2011 Finland won a gold medal in ice hockey world championships.  That tournament will be remembered of one goal made by Mikael Granlund.  It was called ILMAVEIVI.

Now two years later I saw Topi Jaakonaho and Ville Taipale busking together using that special ILMAVEIVI-techniques in the pedestrian street in Jyväskylä.  It looked very funny.

Within some hundred meters another amusing event was happening in the front of the Craftmuseum.  This kind of familiar handicraft activity was used even in Charlie Chaplin´s CITY LIGHTS.



So keeping your eyes open you can find lots of ridiculous material to your clown show.  It can be rooted in the cultural heritage of your own country or be something known all over the world.

Sometimes there can become some barriers in understanding if a certain activity is not known among the audience.  That happened to a world famous mime-artist Nola Rae, when she was miming a violin player in a culture where a violin is not known at all.

Some more articles about basic clown skills will appear to this website - maybe.