Welcome to the Gallery of Impossible Balance,...

Welcome to the Gallery of Impossible Balance, a place where “Mr. Science meets Bozo the Clown.”

This is the world of performer Jim Jackson and his clown character, Mimic Sole, who will present the highly visual and grudgingly educational “Sole’s Balance” at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. today at the Norris Theatre.

In the Gallery of Impossible Balance, “sculptures” such as a teeter-totter, a tightrope, and a ladder, prove hazardous to Sole’s health.

The squeaky-voiced clown, who describes balance as “nothing more than finding the middle between falling down and falling up,” somehow finds that his own equilibrium is difficult to keep.

Sole’s balance, or lack thereof, is the hourlong show’s catalyst for comedy but it also becomes a metaphor in abridged discussions of topics such as power or life and death.

The cast of “Sole’s Balance” is made up of three puppets and two “found object” characters, an orange and a mop, who come to life to help demonstrate and explain notions about centrifugal force and gravity.

When Sole asks his audiences to bend their concepts of reality and stretch their imaginations, the challenge, says Jackson, is “to go out there and make something the 3-year-old laughs at and the 40-year-old, whose job it is to take them to this performance, enjoys too.”

While young audience members giggle at Sole’s antics, older counterparts will recognize lessons from basic physics and philosophy. But, Jackson is quick to point out, these lessons are “always done in a very clown way. Nothing is taken too seriously.”

After all, this is a man who graduated from college only to run away with the circus. A man who balances a unicycle on his chin and juggles Ping-Pong balls with his mouth.

So kids (and parents) don’t laugh too hard. It may mean you learned something.

Tickets are $10. The Norris Theatre is on Crossfield Drive at Indian Peak Road in Palos Verdes. Free parking is available. For more information call (310) 544-0403.