"Antonio Sanders, a member of the Senior Clown Troupe, dances with older adults during the Englewood Exclusively Us Senior's Day Celebration. Sanders and the Senior Clown Troupe performs for older adults in nursing homes and retirement centers. ""Clowning means to me being fun, keeping positive feeling, making someone that is sad, make them happy. Talk about positive things when they talk about sad things, so you make a sad situation to a positive situation. I really love that because it's my whole life and I grew up clowning,"" said Sanders, who started clowning when he was 17 years old and worked for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus for a year and a half. As he grows older, clowning has become a more important part of his life. ""Clowning is not always being in the circus all the time. It's everyday life."""
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