El artista escénico en el papel del clown hospitalario

Abstract

The term clown is often understood as disobligation and disorder, resorting to the profile of an individual who lives the moment without measuring consequences. However, in the performing arts, the clown is a discipline that requires too much work and rigor when executed, as part of "not pretending"; product of his way of executing has been located in the field of comedy where laughter is the protagonist. Well, this document addresses the social function of "Clown" and how it becomes a therapeutic agent. The hospitable Clown, is that clown that exerts his art offstage in a social work, be it a hospital, geriatric home, minor center in restitution of rights, people with diverse capacities, and in summary any place where it is necessary to bring joy. Often the term "hospitable" places this type of Clown in a medical center, but the truth is that the term hospitable clown, comes from the word hospital; that is, the place where hospitality is offered and received. The positive effects of the hospital clown, is an issue has had greater value in the field of health sciences, supported by studies conducted on the effects of laughter in the human body applied in different instances such as children, adults, patients , third age, and even in the surgical environment. This therapy of laughter, a recourse of the hospitable clown, has been supported by numerous institutions about its scientific effect but; Research on the preparation of this therapist and the necessary aspects for the artist-therapist to exercise a correct therapy is very precarious and more so when the therapy must be carried out in a humanitarian environment, whatever it may be. That is why the initiative to develop a joint and systematized investigation of the preparation of a stage artist to develop his hospital clown in this space arises. This work can not be done in an arbitrary way, it will be in permanent communication with the Clown Doctor Foundation.