The focus was on developing professional level performance material for cabaret, theatrical clowning, street theater and circus.
It draws inspiration from traditional circus clowning, European street theater and variety.
In 2008–9, the Clown Conservatory's Advanced Program Ensemble spent a year developing and performing a circus adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland under the direction of Jeff Raz.
The production, titled Wonderland, was developed around the performing skills of an ensemble of nine Conservatory students selected by audition.
Spectacle magazine wrote: "This highly inventive circus theatre project and its cast of promising new artists are off to an auspicious beginning...