Allied to clowns - and also to shamans and others - we investigate the power of a body, in resonance with singularization processes. The clown's body - with its power of affecting and being affected, with a logic of its own, involving ways to feel, think, and act singularly - is one of the axles for the construction of a clown. One's initiation as a clown - as it is practiced at Lume: Interdisciplinary Centre for Theatrical Research at Unicamp - becomes an experience of 'becoming someone else', inventing other kinds of affection, involving an attitude of listening to the world with the whole body, in an alert state and, at the same time, of great dedication and availability. It is related to the resonances of encounters, of something that occurs between a clown and another person. The ethical, political, aesthetic and philosophical dimensions are imbricated in this aspect of affirmation of life, and in the construction of other modes of existence.
body; education; singularization; experimentation; clown