The New England Center for Circus Arts in collaboration with the Nelson Withington Skating Facility at Living Memorial Park ...

A wooden cut-out clown holds a sign to wait to be seated in the foyer at Pancake Circus, which has an extensive collection of clown artworks donated by customers. Lezlie Sterling [email protected] ...

Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

ANAHEIM – On any given night he dangles 68 feet in the air, balances on an enormous spinning wheel and slides seven stories down a pole – upside down. Such stunts are just one reason why Bello Nock, a ...

They need to stop clowning around and get a job. When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its doors this month after a 146-year run, a group of costumed entertainers will be out of ...

A little boy sees Dave DeDera and dives behind his mother's legs. "I'm afraid," he says. Standing 6 feet 5 inches tall, DeDera cuts an imposing figure. But the red, bulbous nose and giant clown shoes ...

Where do the clowns of tomorrow come from? Some of them are coming from Circus Smirkus, an award-winning touring training camp for aspiring aerialists, jugglers and rubber-nosed pranksters. Smirkus is ...

Dave DeDera was only 19 when he was faced with the kind of decision that could make or break his career: clown around or become a cop? DeDera chose clowning. It was the best decision of his life. For ...

Not since Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre, or at least Full Moon Pictures' Killjoy, has the world of circus clowning been given so dark an acid bath. In this case, I mean that somewhat literally.