Derek Kwan takes of his mask.
The News Lens
Date: 2017/01/29
By: James Baron
Derek Kwan (關顯揚) is a clown. Not in the pejorative sense, and certainly not one of
PHOTO: Jean-Jacques Chen
those clowns that have been all over social media recently.
“It’s unfortunate because real clown is about innocence. Essentially it’s your 5-year-old self, which is the best of you. People don’t actually know what a clown show is,” says the Toronto-born actor. “They think [Stephen King’s] ‘It’ but they’ve never actually seen the joy a good clown show can bring. It’s the same with masks.”
Last year, Kwan joined Dr. Red Nose, a professional clown troupe that performs at paediatric cancer wards. The initiative was established by Ma Chao-chi (馬照琪) and based on a similar venture by a French organization named Rire Médecins. Ma is a graduate of Paris’ prestigious Theatre Jacques Lecoq and artistic director of Théâtre de La Sardine, a Taipei-based company that combines street performance, circus and physical theater. [FULL STORY]
